Westwin Elements, America’s first nickel refinery, has secured $1.4 billion in long-term deals with Traxys, boosting the domestic critical minerals supply chain and reducing import reliance.

Here are the key takeaways from market participants on US ferrous scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our August survey.

Fastmarkets is standardizing the names of its forest products prices for recovered paper, pulp, paper packaging, graphic paper, nonwovens, timber, biomass and softwood products. Principally to ensure consistent and clearly define the markets. Fastmarkets is in the process of standardizing price nomenclature for forest products. This initiative does not alter the existing methodology for price […]

A tight supply scenario kept Brazilian domestic animal fats prices firm in the week to Thursday July 31, despite the recent disruption of tallow flows following the 50% US tariff against Brazil announced on July 9. Export prices were unchanged amid ongoing uncertainties.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ price assessments of the base metals arbitrage for copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel for Friday August 1 were delayed due to reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

The Mexican aluminium market is experiencing low spot activity and pricing pressure amid ongoing tariff uncertainty and heavy reliance on US trade. Market participants are watching closely for potential trade deals that could reshape the current landscape.

To increase the transparency of our methodology, Fastmarkets clarifies that qualities of these two battery-grade lithium hydroxide assessments are both coarse. You can find the updated methodology for lithium hydroxide here: https://www.fastmarkets.com/uploads/2025/05/fm-mb-lithium.pdf To provide feedback on this clarification for the battery-grade lithium hydroxide methodology please contact Zihao Li by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the […]

The publication of Fastmarkets’ MB-ALU-0003 alumina index adjustment to fob Australia index, Brazil for Thursday July 31 was delayed because of a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

Key takeaways: US 50% tariffs on Brazil exclude pulp, other major exporting sectors US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order implementing an additional 40% tariff on Brazil, raising the total tariff to 50%, the White House said in a statement published on Wednesday July 30. The new tariffs will take effect in seven […]

After a consultation period, Fastmarkets has launched this grade 316 stainless steel cold-rolled sheet price to expand Fastmarkets’ coverage of the flat stainless steel market in Europe alongside the price assessment for MB-STS-0281 stainless steel cold-rolled sheet, 2mm, grade 304, transaction domestic, delivered North Europe. Fastmarkets did not receive any direct responses to this consultation, but […]