US silicon price up for first time in 2 years

摘要

The silicon metal market in the United States moved higher for the first time in two years, with suppliers raising prices largely due to reduced global supply of cheap material from China as a result of the Wuhan novel coronavirus. Independent of that, other low-priced suppliers have reportedly revised their pricing policies this year, deeming their earlier prices unsustainably low. Fastmarkets assessed the price for silicon, ddp US at $0.95-0.97 per lb on February 10, up by 3.8 from last month’s range of $0.91-0.94 per lb.