According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, American ferroalloy export volume was 11307 mt in July 2014, up by 16.3% M-O-M and up by 37.2% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in Jan-Jul of 2014 was 77521mt, up by 11.7% Y-O-Y.

Silicon manganese market for the week remained sluggish and transactions were at a low level owing to slow demand. In Raipur, silicon manganese 6014 is being offered INR57,000/MT according to sources,

Exxaro resources says it is contemplating the possible retrenchment of employees at its beleaguered AlloyStream project, after all efforts to resuscitate the ailing Letaba ferromanganese pilot plant failed.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ganzhou Tungsten Association issued its indication floor price of APT for September at RMB163,000/mt (USD26,721/mt, export duty excluded), but its real transaction price was RMB161,000-162,000/mt (USD26,393-26,557/mt, export duty excluded), a...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB69,000-70,000/mt (USD11,311-11,475/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. Vanadium pent oxide supply was limited, so suppliers had small inventory pressure and insisted on high offer. At the sam...

At present, Chinese calcium silicon market demand has improved slightly, however, it hasn’t been reflected by the price. As the profit of PVC producers was limited, they didn’t want to purchase at a higher price.

The LME nickel price hit a three-month high on Monday at USD19,940/t in consequence of the Philippine ban of mines export.

Xinjiang Kebang Manganese Industrial Group Co.,Ltd. (Kebang Manganese) was located in Akto County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region.