Here are the four key takeaways from the US scrap market participants of our June survey

US construction contractors – including for residential, commercial and manufacturing facilities – have reported long delays and unpredictability in obtaining electrical transformers. This is due to inadequate electrical steel supplies amid missing investment decisions in the US to expand production of the material

Fastmarkets forecasts that global steel production will grow at an average annual rate of 1.4% through the end of the decade so ‘green’ steel production methods need to keep pace

After a one-month consultation, Fastmarkets confirms an amendment of its price assessment for MB-STE-0896 steel slab, import, cif Italy.

The push toward decarbonization will dramatically increase the demand for ferrous scrap materials among major Indian steel producers in the coming years, Zain Nathani, vice president of the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI), has said in a Fastmarkets webinar

The death knell sounded on Monday May 20 for the quarterly European ferro-chrome benchmark, bringing with it the end of a long-running, divisive, often disputed, yet highly influential and important pricing mechanism

Fastmarkets confirms the amendment of five of its steel products assessments and steel billet index originated from the Black Sea.

Read more about how Fastmarkets will provide much-needed price assessments for green steel

The US steel industry’s preponderance of electric-arc furnace (EAF) capacity may be a double-edged sword when it comes to collecting green steel premiums, market sources have told Fastmarkets

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the payment terms and quantities of three hot- and cold-rolled coil import price assessments for the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.