[ferro-alloys.com] At the beginning of Sep. the steel mills and distributors all positively to purchase and store goods. And the market inquiry and transaction were relatively active than the former period. According to the customers from Shanxi said that now they produced as the order. The goods supply did not meet the demand. Some enterprises had strong willing to raise the price. At present, the high-carbon ferrochrome mainstream quotation is RMB 6,850-6,950/mt (USD1,122-1,139/mt, EX-WORK,VAT) or RMB 7,000/mt(USD1,147/mt,EX-WORK,VAT).

 

On the one hand, steel mills maintained the low purchase price for a long time. Besides, the chrome merchants paid more attention to the turnover of company capital because of the influence from the restrictive lending policy of bank. The ferrochrome producers shorten the sales cycle and there was scare the inventory.

 

On the other hand, the spot and future chrome ore  both rose slightly, which made a strong support to the ferrochrome price. The spot enhanced about USD 0.5-1/mtu. And the foreign price increased about USD5/mt. The other countries ore also had the trace to up.

In recent month, the steel mills bid price had no change as the willing of people. Most participants hope there will be the opportunity in October. With the favorable factor, such as the chrome ore cost support and winter store, so it was expected that the market would keep up trend in October.