Overseas hardwood trade has seen a global-wide downward trend, in addition to reduced domestic demand in the US

The rotogravure printing market in Europe has seen large-scale consolidation activities in the last five years with more customers turning away from print to digital

Despite slower population growth and lower household formation rates, there remains a shortfall in the housing market, particularly for starter homes in North America

Newsprint has been under increasing pressure due to weaker demand and rising costs. How does the future look for this sector of the paper market?

Fastmarkets will amend the baseline chrome to iron ratio in its MB-CHO-0003 chrome ore South Africa UG2/MG concentrates index, cif China as of the calculation on Tuesday November 14.

Aluminium price on China’s economy Range-trading has characterized the LME aluminium price as the decline since the start of October attempts to stabilize. At the beginning of the year, market participants had overestimated China’s ability to stimulate its way out of the Covid-lockdown era, putting too much emphasis on a fast and robust recovery. However, as China’s economic […]

While daily crude steel production stood at 2 million tonnes in mid-October, a 1.25% decrease from the previous year according to data published by China’s Iron and Steel Association (CISA), overall production has remained relatively firm following a strong first half of 2023. With no clear indications of a rebound in downstream steel prices in […]

Talks between the European Union and the United States began in October 2021, where both parties announced the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminium (GASSA), a partnership in which both parties would negotiate an arrangement to combat global overcapacity and climate change. The discussions would include discouraging trade in high-carbon steel and aluminum that […]

NANO has targeted remote mining operations run by diesel fuel in locations where the logistics of providing a constant source of fuel “may be a challenge,” the CEO said. The company’s microreactors could also expand mining opportunities to more new locations. “It can make thousands of potential mines economic and come online, whereas before, they […]

Fastmarkets assessed its new aluminium low-carbon differential P1020A, US Midwest at zero on Friday November 3. The assessment for the aluminium low-carbon differential for value-added product, US Midwest, also was at zero on Friday. Fastmarkets aims to bring transparency to the market with its new low-carbon aluminium differentials. “We are getting lots of questions about carbon […]