Fastmarkets Copper Seminar 2026

Gain up-to-the-minute market insight from the people shaping the copper industry – to inform sharper strategy and decision-making.

Join us to unpack the key issues for 2026:

– Tariffs, trade fragmentation, and industrial policy: how evolving US-China and broader trade measures are reshaping copper flows, premiums, and regional pricing dislocations
– The structural deficit, revisited: is the market moving from “expected” to “realized” shortage – and what that means for substitution, demand elasticity, and price volatility
– Concentrates scarcity vs smelting overcapacity: how treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) are behaving under sustained feedstock tightness
– Scrap market constraints and arbitrage: availability, quality degradation, and the growing importance of scrap flows in balancing refined demand
– Mine supply risk and project execution: delays, cost inflation, permitting challenges, and geopolitical risk affecting new supply pipelines
– China demand resilience and inventory cycles: tracking real consumption vs. restocking, and implications for global balances
– Regionalization of supply chains: how localization strategies are impacting trade routes, premiums, and inventory positioning
– Price formation under stress: the role of exchange inventories, physical premiums, and speculative flows in a tighter, more volatile market

Additional expert discussion will cover price outlooks, macroeconomic conditions, supply chain dynamics, recycling trends, and geopolitical risk – issues that would plausibly intensify into 2026.
 
Lunch will be after the seminar; it has been sponsored by the London Metal Exchange, and will feature a special interview with Oriol Guixà, Chairman of La Farga, reflecting on his time in the industry and his thoughts on the future.
 
Oriol is being honoured by The Copper Club at its annual dinner at The Plaza Hotel as the 2026 Ankh Award winner – warm congratulations to him!

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