Market participants expect prices for aluminium scrap and secondary ingot to remain robust in 2022, with demand from the automotive sector anticipated to pick up by the second half of the year. Despite a recent sharp decline in price levels for European secondary ingot DIN226, participants are hopeful that higher levels will return in the […]

Sharp rises in carbon and energy costs, along with the introduction of “green steel” in Europe, will lead to changes to traditional pricing mechanisms in 2022, Fastmarkets understands. Some steelmakers have already started to implement surcharges for carbon and energy costs, whereas previously production costs have been included in the base prices of the steel […]

China’s focus on slashing carbon emissions will force longer-term changes in western aluminium trading and supply chains in the years ahead

Europe’s planned Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will have a big impact on the aluminium sector when it begins to focus on reducing scope 2 emissions, according to the president and chief executive of the Aluminium Association of Canada (AAC). That, in turn, will widen divisions among producers based on which energy sources they use, […]

The low-carbon production of aluminium has remained in the spotlight during COP26, the United Nation’s global climate change conference now under way in Glasgow, but the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) remains an afterthought for the European aluminium market. CBAM will make EU importers pay for carbon certificates corresponding to the carbon price that […]

Your simple guide breaking down the complexity of the European CBAM regulations, and the potential impact on global import markets

Covid-19 pandemic was period of high highs, low lows for battery raw materials, copper, aluminium – 2022 looks set to be smoother year for prices, supply, demand

Aluminium producers are now considering different contract structures for value-added products with alloying elements such as silicon to mitigate upside production cost risks

Fastmarkets analyst Yang Cao and reporter Justin Yang size up the aluminium market ahead of LME Week, which begins Monday October 11

Base metals prices on the LME were mainly rebounding on Wednesday September 22, after dip buyers took advantage of Tuesday's price weakness, while metals in Shanghai were mixed but mainly down in response to the downturn in London this week.