Bulls increasingly optimistic for higher scrap prices in September

Turkish export prices for steel rebar and wire rod have remained stable over the past week despite limited demand, while domestic prices have inched upward on a weaker Turkish lira, market sources said on Thursday August 24

Canadian wood products producers monitor the situation closely as the fires continue

Brazil exported a record 1 million tonnes of bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp to China in July, according to Brazil’s Secretariat of Foreign Trade

Joint-venture battery recycler Primobius has agreed with car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz to set up a shredding operation in Kuppenheim, Germany, to recycle battery raw materials

Stronger buying appetite for pellet feed products among Chinese buyers has led to higher seaborne premiums since late July, with market participants expecting a wider price gap between high-grade pellet feed and high-grade sinter fines, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday August 25

Abaxx Exchange Pte Ltd plans to launch its new nickel sulfate futures contract by the end of this year and is looking at other contracts in the battery raw materials space, its president told Fastmarkets in a recent interview

While soy sales have been inconsistent, wheat and corn sales have trended higher

Fastmarkets will on Thursday August 31 launch three barite prices to complement its existing coverage of the barite market.

European secondary aluminium prices have been stable in the week to Friday August 25, while Fastmarkets launched two additional grades of alloy that have also been steady so far through the month