Home> Ⅲ. The market demand of silicon metal: As the widely used structural and functional materials in the hi-tech field and important basic industries, consumes of silicon metal is increasing rapidly, with a worldwide consumption of 1,000,000 ton in 2007. With the advancement of technology and the development of world economic, the application field of silicon metal will be wider and wider, also the demand will be enlarged. Presently, many countries like Japan, Korea, Canada, America and India etc are mainly depending on the import of silicon metal. Some silicon producing countries, affected by economy, energy source and environment, etc., have stopped such production. It is predicted that, till year 2010, the increasing rate of silicon metal demand in smelting industry will keep at 7% due to the increasing of steel output, automobile and building materials. In recent years, however, the demand for it is mostly on chemistry and electron. The related information of the past five years indicates that, the increasing rate of silicon metal demand is more than 9%. In the future 5 years, the demand for silicon metal will keep rising rapidly with the increasing use of it in semiconductor, chemical industry, solar battery, advanced wearable and fire-resistant materials. Consequently, we should be full of confidence on the bright future of producing and selling silicon metal. Attached with (2007-2010 world industrial silicon demand forecast table) and (2006 world main silicon metal producer output)   If you have any interest or enquiry for above, then please contact us: Tel: (86-10) 82070680 Fax: (86-10) 82070690 E-Mail: sales@sinosi.com or service@sinosi.com or sinosi@sinosi.com Http://www.sinosi.com/project ;