The category will be useful for manufacturing companies involved in electrical engineering, metallurgy, and solar energy.
Silicon has two forms: amorphous and crystalline. Amorphous silicon is a brown powder. Crystalline silicon consists of dark gray crystals with steel shine and used most often. Silicon is widely spread in nature and non-toxic. It is hard but fragile. Silicon makes alloys with almost all metals - silicides. All of them are refractory and hard. Silicon is a typical semiconductor.
Referring to the data for 2017, the silicon production leader is China (4.8 million tons). Also, among the major manufacturers are Russia (750,000 tons), USA (405,000 tons), Norway (380,000 tons), France (120,000 tons), and Brazil (110,000 tons).
Silicon ingots are the main material of semiconductor electronics. Silicon is used for making integrated circuits, diodes, transistors, solar cells, photodetectors, etc. Besides, it is used for producing lenses in the infrared devices. Silicon is also an alloying agent in the production of steel and non-ferrous metal alloys. The ability of silicon and its compounds to form complex, hard solutions allows obtaining variations of glass, stone, and ceramics.
On the platform, the suppliers from China, South Africa, Philippines, and Ukraine offer an average price of $1,000-1,500 per ton depending on the silicon ingots purity or alloy’s chemical composition. The minimum order for small consignment is 1 kg and the large batch of goods is 1ton.
