Fastmarkets (Random Lengths) plans to formally launch the industry’s first daily price assessment for Southern Yellow Pine #2 2x4 (eastside) on Thursday 8 August along with more than a year of pricing history.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic, ex-whs Northern China.

Fastmarkets launches MB-STE-0918 Electrical steel, non-grain oriented, ex-whs Eastern China, $/tonne and MB-STE-0919 Electrical steel, non-grain oriented, cfr India, $/tonne on July 19.

Fastmarkets has amended the name of MB-AL-0231 Aluminium P1020A all-in price, delivered Midwest US, US cents/lb as of Wednesday July 17.

Analysis by UK-based industry group ChargeUK shows that there are now more than 930,000 public, home and workplace charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) across the nation, supporting 1.1 million such vehicles

Aluminum scrap generation in Europe is expected to decrease in the current quarter due to lower demand from downstream metal producers amid the domestic seasonal summer slowdown, according to the latest market overview from the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)

Early trade indications for renewable transport fuel certificates for the 2025 compliance year have surfaced for the first time, with initial bids suggesting values might be around parity or slightly discounted compared with current certificates

The publication of Fastmarkets’ CIS steel slab, wire rod, hot-rolled and cold-rolled coil assessments was postponed by one day due to a public holiday in Ukraine on Monday July 15.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ MB-STE-0887 steel scrap shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan was delayed on Tuesday July 16 due to a technical error.

Fastmarkets proposes to launch FOB Indonesia, Vietnam and India inferred indices for its Australian alumina index.