In 2009, China's organic silicon industry capacity utilization was only 50% due to low market prices. Demand and supply in the Chinese organic silicon monomer market were in balance at 1.09 million tons of output and 1.10 million tons of apparent consumption. Foreign companies dominated China's medium and high-end organic silicon monomer market, while domestic companies competed in the low-end market. Chinese organic silicon monomer market competition was expected to increase rapidly as domestic technology spread.