Investing in scrap processing capacity will be a key factor for the aluminium industries in Europe and North America in securing enough suitable scrap to decarbonize their primary alloys, industry sources said at Fastmarkets’ International Aluminium conference in Athens, Greece.

The European Commission published its annual State of the Energy Union Report 2024 on Wednesday, September 11, outlining the EU’s progress toward the clean energy transition and climate goals

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Trade, tariffs and protectionist measures were all topics of discussion during the US presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Tuesday September 10.

Colombian steelmakers conditioned the viability of building the country's first flat steel plant on the adoption of trade defense measures against imports, the companies said on Friday, September 6.

Although some sectors are still reluctant to pay more for green aluminium, it’s important to have differential premiums for low-carbon products because they can increase awareness about the green agenda, chief executive officer of Brazil's Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (CBA) told Fastmarkets during an interview.

The willingness among steel consumers to pay premiums for ‘green’ products was not enough to offset the extra cost of the technology transition in the short term, according to Dr Karel Eloot, senior partner in the global materials insights department of management consultant McKinsey & Co.

The global steel industry is currently grappling between decarbonizing at higher costs while still attempting to maintain cost competitiveness with traditional blast furnace-based production methods, sources told Fastmarkets.

Green steel premiums in the US are off to a slow start, compared to the figures mills are collecting in Europe and Asia

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