Fastmarkets has expanded its coverage of processed animal proteins (PAPs) by launching new European price assessments for category 3 poultry meal and mixed meat and bone meal, aiming to enhance market transparency and provide essential risk-management tools for participants across the food and feed supply chain.

Fastmarkets has launched AG-PM-0015 category 3 poultry meal, 65% pro, exw Eastern Europe, €/tonne and AG-MBM-0026 category 3 mixed meat and bone meal, 50% pro, exw Eastern Europe, €/tonne on Friday November 7, 2025.

With time, it is natural that low-carbon aluminium will be valued, and that the market will pay a green premium because clients are each day demanding more certificates, Anderson Baranov, chief executive officer of Norsk Hydro Brazil told Fastmarkets in an interview on Thursday October 30.

Fastmarkets published its assessment of the MB-STE-0232 steel scrap No1 busheling, consumer buying price, delivered mill Chicago, $/gross ton on Thursday November 6, 2025.

The European softwood industry is navigating a period of gradual stabilization after three years of difficult market conditions, according to outlooks presented at the 73rd International Softwood Conference in Oslo in October 2025. While both producers and traders report modest improvements, the sector faces continuing challenges, including record-high log prices, limited spruce availability, and subdued […]

Brazil’s potential for producing aluminium has not been fully explored and the country should not only focus on the domestic market, but start exporting, Luciano Alves, chief executive officer of aluminium producer Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA), told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview on Tuesday October 28.

Fastmarkets will discontinue its MB-STE-0422 Steel scrap No1 busheling index, delivered Midwest mill, $ per gross ton, effective January 2026.

Explore the evolving market for base metals as nickel faces competition from lithium iron phosphate alternatives.

China’s state-owned buyer purchased up to three soybean cargoes from the US this week at prices above Brazilian offers, marking the first deals for the autumn harvest, several market sources in China said on Wednesday October 29.

Fastmarkets has corrected the rationale for its price indices for MB-IRO-0008 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao and for MB-IRO-0191 61% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao, which was published incorrectly on Friday October 31. The price of a floated-price Pilbara Blend fines transaction heard through market survey were erroneously recorded in the trade log part of rationale […]