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The Lumber Weekly Price Changes table in the Random Lengths Lumber Market Report transmitted by email and uploaded to the RISI portal dated Tuesday November 24, 2020, file LBR_48_2020.pdf was not updated from the previous week. The LBR_48_2020.pdf has been revised as of 11/25/2020, and is being retransmitted to all Lumber Market Report PDF subscribers. […]

In light of China’s ban on imports of “solid waste,” including recovered paper, that is to take effect on Dec. 31, 2020, Fastmarkets RISI is proposing several changes to its North American export recovered paper price assessments. This includes changing the destinations of FAS price assessments for US recovered paper grades that have established markets […]

Hot-rolled coil spot prices in the United States have surpassed $35 per hundredweight for the first time since March 2019.

Due to technical issues, Spain LWC offset and rotogravure prices for October 2018 through September 2019 were briefly transposed on the online portal and mobile app. We have now fixed the problem and prices are showing correctly. The price data published in PPI Europe was not affected by this problem. For questions or comments please […]

Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodologies for European paper and board assessments via an open consultation process between June 5 and July 3, 2020.   After internal reviews, Fastmarkets RISI proposed two changes to its European paper and board methodologies: Discontinue SC fluting prices across all Western European markets. Discontinue […]

The electric vehicle (EV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) markets will have a large impact on the automotive industry and there are technological advances happening in steel that could contribute to this auto evolution, according to a panel discussion during the Steel Success Strategies 2020 virtual conference this week.