Publication of Fastmarkets’ daily domestic steel hot-rolled coil indices in Northern Europe and Italy on Wednesday September 20 took place earlier than scheduled due to an error.

Key talking points at Fastmarkets’ International Aluminium conference in Barcelona, Spain, on September 12-14

German automaker Mercedes-Benz has signaled its preference for greener steel in the US alongside a commitment to 50,000 tonnes per year from long-time supplier Steel Dynamics Inc (SDI)

Demand for neodymium rare earth magnets from the offshore wind power industry is set to soar in the next decade if decarbonization plans are realized

Please note Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-STS-0258 - Stainless steel scrap 409 bundles, solids, consumer buying price, delivered mill Pittsburgh, US cents/lb, which was published incorrectly on Monday September 11.

This pricing notice has been updated.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) struck at three of the Big Three automakers' assembly plants just after midnight on Friday September 15, sending 12,700 workers to the picket lines and threatening to expand the strike to additional factories

Uncertainty arising from a potential strike at one or more of the Big Three automakers is at the forefront of the US flat-rolled market, upstaging the mill outage season that is currently underway, sources told Fastmarkets

Fastmarkets has corrected its dealer selling prices for steel scrap No1 busheling, No1 heavy melt and plate and structural scrap, fob dealer yard Atlanta.

The use of niobium as an additive in battery manufacturing could expand to provide as much as one-quarter of the revenues at leading global producer Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM) by 2030