The Fused Silica supply situation in China was stable over the reviewed week, the main producing areas of Jiangsu, Hebei, Fujian were running at or close to nameplate capacity. There were no challenges for feedstock availability: domestic quartz sand satisfied the majority of demand and high purity ores from Spruce Pine and Tana were cleared at the border without incident.
There were no difficulties in access to the supply of the raw materials as the local quartz sand was satisfying the overall quantity demands and imported high purity ores from countries like Spruce Pine and Tana had not faced any interruption after clearing the customs.
It was significant that ultra-high purity quartz from a new supplier from Mongolia had succeeded in clearing customs and qualifying checks to enter the Chinese market with purity as high as xx.xxxx. This had ensured that the
