HELSINKI, February 17, 2023 (PIX Bioenergy and Wood Indices) - Fastmarkets FOEX invited feedback from the industry in an open consultation process between January 18 and February 15, 2023 on the pricing methodology for its PIX Sawn Softwood Timber Finland indices.

US automotive manufacturer Ford’s announcement that it would invest $3.5 billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) plant in the US state of Michigan marks the chemistry’s adoption in a nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) dominated market

Growing consumer demand for automotive manufacturers to use sustainable materials is driving the uptake of low-carbon aluminium, with producer Rio Tinto announcing a partnership with BMW Group to supply the metal

European aluminium producer Norsk Hydro will not bring smelter capacity back into the market until demand assurance returns, the company’s chief financial officer Pål Kildemo told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview

Junior miner Piedmont Lithium has agreed to provide South Korean cathode maker LG Chem with 200,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate (SC6%) over a four-year period, it said on Thursday February 16

Fastmarkets has amended its aluminium P1020A (MJP) quarterly premium assessment methodology.

Financially settled contracts for metals have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and this likely played a role in a change of ownership at Traxys

Glencore’s new chief executive officer Gary Nagle is learning a key management lesson the hard way, namely: “You can't please all of the people all of the time

The Material Recycling Association of India’s annual International Metals Recycling Conference (IMRC) on February 2-4 saw the event return to southern city of Kochi for the first time since 2019 and, judging by the demand for rooms in the run-up to the event, there has been a massive increase in the numbers attending

Soft oils make up for the biggest share, with an increase of 85.5%