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Unlock key insights into Mexico’s evolving metals markets as government financial stimulus fuels domestic and import demand in metals-intensive industries.
With market volatility heightened by tariff uncertainties and potential trade shifts under the USMCA, the need for reliable domestic pricing has never been greater.
Join Fastmarkets experts for an exclusive, in-depth briefing on base metals, scrap, and steel, covering the key market drivers behind critical pricing developments.
Stay ahead in a rapidly shifting landscape.
Event Details:
09:00 Registration, refreshments and networking
10:00 Welcome by Fastmarkets
10:05 Opening presentation
10:30 Base Metals An overview of new aluminium pricing benchmarks: recently-launched p1020 premium, green premium differential & billet assessments for Mexican imports
Speaker: Grace Asenov, Regional Editor (Base & Energy Metals, the Americas), Fastmarkets Grace Asenov has more than 10 years of price reporting experience in metals markets. She currently leads a team of reporters pricing non-ferrous and battery raw materials markets in North and South America in line with IOSCO principles for price reporting agencies.
10:45 Non-Ferrous Scrap Mexican domestic scrap markets and associated sectoral growth: charting demand for domestic non-ferrous scrap and alloy assessments
Speaker: Amy Hinton, North American Recycled Metals Editor, Fastmarkets Amy oversees the pricing, market development and coverage of ferrous, non-ferrous and stainless scrap as well as the alternative irons market in the region. Having joined Fastmarkets in early 2019, Amy has worked on the Base Metals Team in London with a particular focus on nickel and secondary aluminium before becoming a senior reporter on the US ferrous scrap team in back November 2020. Prior to her tenure at Fastmarkets she worked as an analyst for a series of international banks in London.
11:00 Steel Expanding Mexican steel pricing: developments in domestic HRC and rebar and the future of green steel in the region
Speaker: Dan Hilliard, Regional Editor (Steel & Ferroalloys, The Americas),Fastmarkets. Dan Hilliard leads a team in the US and Brazil in pricing finished steel products ranging from hot-rolled coil to SBQ, merchant bar to wire rod. He also has responsibility for US ferroalloy pricing. Dan has worked as a steel journalist since 2009 and has been with Fastmarkets since 2023. Previously, he covered police and military matters for several daily newspapers. He hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and studied journalism at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
11:15 – 12:30 Panel Discussion & Q&A
Moderator: Sean Barry, Global Recycled Metals Editor, Fastmarkets Sean Barry leads a dedicated team of reporters and editors around the world to produce benchmark pricing and market information for both ferrous and non-ferrous scrap markets. Sean has recently played an instrumental role in the development and launch of black mass prices, further strengthening Fastmarkets’ position in emerging sectors of the metals market. Sean has been a professional journalist for over two decades and started writing about metals in 2003 when he was deputy editor of non-ferrous coverage for Fastmarkets in London.
Panelists: Grace Asenov, Regional Editor (Base & Energy Metals, the Americas), Fastmarkets Amy Hinton, North American Recycled Metals Editor, Fastmarkets Dan Hilliard, Regional Editor (Steel & Ferro-Alloys, The Americas), Fastmarkets
12:30 Networking lunch
14:30 End of briefing
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