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The global steel and scrap industry is recovering from the wide-reaching economic impact of Covid-19 – but the story is far from over. This insights hub helps bring the global steel market into focus by giving you access to reports, events, and news shaping the steel industry and affecting historical, current and future steel prices.
The true price of green steel
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How decarbonization will squeeze steel margins and create intense competition for raw materials and scrap.
Decarbonization series
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Looking for answers on carbon reduction
The steel and metals industries are entering an age of ‘green’ transformation. We uncover what today’s environmental goals mean for industrial production and future demand.
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Steel, partners strive for net-zero energy target
The path to carbon neutrality complicates decisions for steelmakers having to balance margin stability alongside the deployment of new greener technologies.
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Solar to power CMC’s new Arizona mill
Is the switching to scrap-based electric-arc furnace (EAF) steel production enough to get the industry to net zero emissions? The answer is probably not.
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Latest steel market news
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REPORT: The American Jobs Plan and metal demand
United States President Joe Biden’s strategic jobs plan will potentially have profound effects on commodity markets and supply chains.
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European buyers lambast steel safeguard extension
European buyers of imported steel products are shocked by the extension of existing safeguard measures for another three years at a time when most of the industry’s segments are struggling from material shortage and, consequently, high prices.
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Opportunity for a scrap pricing supercycle
Could the growing demand for steel products open the doors to a scrap pricing supercycle in the next decade? The recent surge in North American ferrous scrap prices amid strong global steel markets and supply shortages...
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SSS and green steel: the US perspective
Green shoots are forming in the approach to clean steelmaking in the United States, with a new administration putting an increased emphasis on sustainability. The topic will be a key part of Fastmarkets' Steel Success Strategies conference, on June 21-24 2021.
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China stopping inspections on 5 grades of ferrous scrap
Five grades of steel scrap will no longer need to undergo customs inspections at ports in China when they are imported into the country, beginning on June 10.
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What happens to steel prices and demand in times of a global crisis?
Get your copy of this special report comparing steel prices during the financial crisis of 2008 and the Covid-19 crisis of 2020
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REPORT: Busheling - Green future?
The CME Group and Fastmarkets have teamed up to discuss the growing pressure on steelmakers to go green. Read our latest report on the importance of recyclable scrap in the global steel supply chain.
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What China's possible new steel export taxes mean for global ferrous industry
Market chatter about China possibly imposing new export taxes for steel as part of commodity price cooling measures has been rampant in the past week, causing traders and market participants to re-think their trading strategies, and overseas buyers to consider a potential supply shortfall.
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REPORT: Understanding the high-grade iron ore market
Find out which market dynamics and pricing mechanisms are changing the high-grade iron ore segment in our exclusive whitepaper.
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China's stricter steel capacity swap ratios to cool overheated raw materials markets
China’s new and stricter steel capacity swap ratios will cool the overheated steelmaking raw materials market and pave...
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REPORT: Echoes of 2008: Steel prices now and then
What happens to steel prices and demand in times of a global crisis? Our steel industry experts compare last year's global pandemic to what happened during the 2008 financial crisis.
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US flat steel capacity boom
As the US steel market continues to build up steam, can the promise of new capacity in 2021 lead the way to a steel price...
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Producers bring first certified green steel to the market
Find out more about ArcelorMittal's and Ovako's green steel strategies.
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Asia ferrous scrap prices
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