Molybdenum market update on September 12, 2025
This week, the domestic molybdenum market overall performed poorly. In addition to the continuous decline in prices of most molybdenum products, suppliers’ confidence in maintaining stable prices appears slightly insufficient, while downstream users’ enthusiasm for inquiries and purchases has decreased, along with a reduction in actual transaction volumes. However, influenced by production cost support and the limited capacity release from some molybdenum mining enterprises, holders generally show low willingness to offer price reductions, with ferromolybdenum prices remaining above 290,000 yuan per ton.
According to CTIA GROUP LTD statistics, this week, the price of molybdenum concentrate decreased by approximately 40 yuan per ton-unit, a decrease of 1.08%; the price of ferromolybdenum decreased by approximately 5,000 yuan per ton, a decrease of 1.69%; the price of molybdenum oxide decreased by approximately 40 yuan per ton-unit, a decrease of 0.85%; the price of sodium molybdate decreased by approximately 1,000 yuan per ton, a decrease of 0.49%; the price of ammonium heptamolybdate decreased by approximately 2,000 yuan per ton, a decrease of 0.71%; and the price of molybdenum powder decreased by approximately 5 yuan per kilogram, a decrease of 0.96%. This indicates that the decline in molybdenum chemical product prices this week is slightly less than that of molybdenum raw materials, primarily because the previous price increase of molybdenum raw materials was greater than that of molybdenum chemical products.
In terms of news, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, in August 2025, the producer price index for industrial products nationwide decreased by 2.9% year-on-year, with the decline narrowing by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous month, and it remained stable month-on-month after a decrease of 0.2% the previous month; the purchase price index for industrial producers decreased by 4.0% year-on-year, remaining stable month-on-month. In terms of year-on-year changes, among the producer prices for industrial products, mining industry prices decreased by 11.5%, raw material industry prices decreased by 4.1%, and processing industry prices decreased by 2.2%; among the purchase prices for industrial producers, chemical raw material prices decreased by 6.2%, ferrous metal material prices decreased by 5.6%, and non-ferrous metal materials and wire prices increased by 4.7%.
Price of molybdenum products on September 12, 2025
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