Bridgeport / Alloy / Bratsk / Nünchritz / Map Ta Phut / Burghausen / Pittsburgh / Duisburg / New York / London / Wuhai / /
Company
Los Alamos National Laboratory / Inner Mongolia Electric Power Metallurgy Co. Ltd. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / EXPORTS OF FERROSILICON AND SILICON METAL / CRU International Ltd. / SILICON ALLOYS AND METAL / Marco International Inc. / Degussa AG / WV Globe Metallurgical Inc. / Bratsk Aluminum Smelter / American Silicon Technologies / SILICON FERROALLOYS AND METAL / GE Toshiba Silicones / ERDOS Group / Southern / Wacker / General Electric Company / SUAL-Kremny-Ural Ltd. / Export Corp. / U.S. net / Globe Metallurgical Inc. / Republic / Icelandic Alloys Ltd. / China Shanix Province Lin Fen Prefecture Foreign Trade Import / AL Applied Industrial Minerals Corp. / Shin-Etsu Chemical / Elkem Metals Co. / Solvay / China Shanxi Province Lin Fen Prefecture Foreign Trade Import / KY Elkem Metals Co. / Applied Industrial Materials Corporation / Minerals LLC / Elkem ASA / Mindanao Silicon Metal Corp. / CC Metals and Alloys Inc. / Bratsk Aluminum / Thai Aerosil Co. / Intel Corporation / Electrosilex S.A. / OR SILICON METAL / Dow Corning Corp. / Oxbow Carbon / Groupstars Chemical Co. Ltd. / Ferro / AL Simcala Inc. / Walter Industries Inc. / Fesil Group / Surmet Corporation / Interfax / World Review / Simcala Inc. / International Trade / Inamed Corporation / GfM Fesil / /
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Africa / Asia / North America / /
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Venezuela / Netherlands / South Africa / Namibia / Lesotho / Cuba / Norway / Thailand / Colombia / France / Japan / Brazil / Iceland / Canada / North Korea / Korea / Botswana / United Kingdom / Philippines / China / Taiwan / Germany / Italy / Mexico / Swaziland / Kazakhstan / Russia / United States / Singapore / Jamaica / Ukraine / Spain / South Korea / /
Currency
USD / EUR / cent / /
Event
Company Expansion / Bankruptcy / Product Recall / M&A / Business Partnership / Debt Financing / Second Stock Issuance / Product Issues / Reorganization / /
Facility
New Philippine smelter / University of Texas / Steel Institute / Bratsk Aluminum Smelter / University of Minnesota / Rice University / /
Holiday
Christmas / /
IndustryTerm
steel industries / electricity prices / cement industry / digital consumer products / wrought products / alloy steel / chemical industries / metal consumption / chemical products / steel products / Internet References Cited / metal / steel sector / metal production / light chemical element / plastic surgery devices / metal supplydemand balance / steel use / ferroalloy producer / metal plant / metal categories / metal prices / metal exports / metal grinding plant / metal producers / http /
NaturalFeature
Mindanao Island / Niagara Falls / /
Organization
Steel Institute / U.S. Department of Commerce / U.S. Court / European Court of the First Instance reaffirmed / U.S. Bureau / Rice University / International Trade Commission / African Customs Union / American Chemistry Council / European Commission / United States Trade Representative / European Union / International Iron and Steel Institute / Trade Commission / University of Texas / Russian Government / International Trade Administration / U.S. International Trade Commission / Federal Government / U.S. Census Bureau / U.S. Food and Drug Administration / University of Minnesota / /
SILICON By Lisa A. Corathers Domestic survey data and tables were prepared by Lisa D. Miller, statistical assistant. Silicon is a light chemical element with metallic and nonmetallic characteristics. In nature, silicon c