In July, the domestic petroleum coke market can be said to be almost crazy, 2007-2008 petroleum coke prices feat again, graphite electrode driven low sulfur calcined coke up sharply, adding more and more coking unit enter into overhaul period, domestic group will usher in substantial increase in price. At the end of this month, after a series of overall prices rising, the domestic petroleum coke gains have been slowly. According to analysts estimate, in 31st July, the domestic petroleum coke average price is 1954 rmb/ton, compared to 30th.June rose 564 rmb/ ton. The average price of private coke is 1880 rmb / ton, compared to 30th.June rose 614 rmb/ton. In aspect of low sulfur coke, the price is under the support of graphite electrode in the crazy prices, these manufacturers have increased...

At present, the prices of ferro silicon 10-50mm 72# and 10-50mm 75# are RMB5550-5750/ton (US$816-846/ton) and RMB5650-5850 /ton (US$831-860/ton) which is stable compared with last week. Producers’ prices are firm at present because of tight stock supply.

Because of the tight supply, the prices of ferro silicon 10-50mm 72# and 10-50mm 75# are increased to RMB5350-5550/ton (US $787-816/ton) and RMB5450-5650/ton (US$801-831/ton) which compared with last week increased RMB100/ton (US$14.7/ton). The price is expected to be stable next week.

On May 25-26th 2017 Huicheng attended 5th world silicon forum with organizer Asian metal at Kunming Yunnan, this conference representatives in Xinjiang, Yunnan, Fujian silicon industry detailed introduced each newly capacity and output, Xinjiang has a total capacity of about 1.2million tons, ranking the first in China, please see followed form.

China calcined coke price is already the all-time high, but the current market supply is still limited, adding environmental supervision of China government, most of the producers are no inventory, meanwhile, the consumers of calcined petroleum coke also is in low inventory, and difficult to procurement from the market. With the strict requirements of environmental protection, all the carbon plants have to improve the requirements of raw materials, more consumers expect to use mid or low sulfur petroleum coke in their carbon productions to avoid the emissions exceed the standard, which makes mid or low sulfur petroleum coke increase a lot, so the market is expected to China mid or low sulfur petroleum coke prices will continue to rise, while the high sulfur coke prices will stabilize.