July Silicon metal evaluation: cost limitation & price weak stability

This month, the silicon metal market trading is gradually active, and the market transaction price is still keeping a small decline trend, the overall decline of USD$60-100.In the weak terminal market, the consumption level cannot keep up with the growth of silicon factory supply, but the price decline is also due to delivery time and cost constraints.Market mainstream transaction price has fallen to a larger part of the factory cost line, production pressure and production suspension is inevitable. 

Review of silicon metal market

In July, metallurgical grade silicon metal market overall decline, it's obvious at the beginning of July. In the middle of the month, the market trading activity to improve the price is basically in stable operation.In the middle of July, downstream traders delivered goods and terminal enterprises just needed to purchase goods and ordered orders to speed up, but overall consumption still did not see a big increase. Under the condition of large production at the peak of July, all grades showed a weak and slight decline trend, among which 441# and 3303# showed the largest decline.

In July, there were obvious changes in the chemical-grade market. At present, the orders in August are still under further negotiation, and the new price is not available yet.In July, the operating rate of factories in sichuan decreased, the production cost was too high, the pressure was heavy, and the phenomenon of reducing production and stopping furnace increased.The construction of silicon factories in xinjiang and yunnan continues to increase, and the proportion of standard chemical grade production is still small, and the tone of silicon market price drop has not changed, chemical silicon whether it is port cash transaction or monthly order transaction price has a significant decline.

Forecast of metal silicon market

The consumption of organic silicon and polysilicon market is generally stable. It is expected that the overall consumption market will not change much, while the monthly production of domestic silicon metal may remain around 210,000 tons. Market transactions without good support, prices or continue to maintain stability in a weak run.