At Present, there are about 12 sets of calcium silicon furnaces with capacity ≥30,000 KVA in China. However, only 4 sets furnaces are in production due to the weak demand and some maintenance. Besides, about 3~4 set of furnaces with capacity at 12,500-15,000 ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] We all acknowledge that the silicon metal is in the situation the oversupply more than the demand, the downstream and trade enterprise all like to have a bargain and they just inquiry more silicon metal industries, want to purchase in a lowe...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Market of silicon metal fell slightly and demand few, the downstream purchased few and they bargained the price much more, many silicon metal industries just dealt with their frequent customers, because of the price has fell to cost line, so...

In July, 2015, the Chinese production of ferrosilicon was 381,289 tons, decreasing by 11.6% Y-O-Y. In H1 of 2015, the total production of ferrosilicon was 2.197 million tons, decreasing by 13.4% Y-O-Y.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] This week we China experienced two major international news: the RMB exchange rate fluctuations and Tianjin Tanggu event, as the silicon metal industries and export enterprises, whether RMB exchange rate fluctuations on the market for the pa...

Chinese Calium silicon market still kept gloomy in the mid-August with ex-work prices at RMB9,000/mt and RMB8,800/mt for CaSi30# and CaSi28#. In August, the capability utilization rate and transaction have no improvement now.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]There was little fluctuation in the price of ferrosilicon in mid-August. Given poor sale and increasing capital pressure, some alloy suppliers forced to put price drop by RMB50/mt from the prior week.

Chinese calcium silicon market kept gloom with ex-work prices at RMB9,000/mt and RMB8,800/mt for CaSi30# and CaSi28#. The export market mainly was affected by the wide RMB depreciation recently.