Indonesia is to increase its dominance in global nickel supply within the next five years, amid an ongoing growth in capacity in the country

The base-metals commodity markets are going through an “unprecedented” period, Saad Rahim, chief economist at global trader Trafigura, said at the London Metal Exchange’s own metals seminar which started the 2023 LME Week event in London on Monday October 9

Plans for a major battery metals recycling hub run by Glencore and Li-Cycle in Italy are likely to go ahead despite recent pushback from local authorities, sources told Fastmarkets this week

Nickel metal produced in China has appeared in the London Metal Exchange warehouse system for the first time since the exchange began reporting its country-of-origin data in January 2023

A revision to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) will require the bloc to ensure 42.5% of the European Union’s entire energy consumption is met through renewables by 2030

A slight rise in offers for black mass payables were heard in South Korea this week, but a wide bid-offer gap persisted in the market, according to sources

The October 13 panel report included an incorrect price for Western plywood sheathing CD struc 1 3/4. A typo was made resulting in the incorrect report. The incorrect price of $920 (a $15 decrease) has been corrected to $935 (no change).

A number of structural panel prices in today’s Midweek publication had errors on the ups/downs page due to technical errors.

Publication of Nonwovens Markets Issue 17 was delayed Wednesday Oct. 11 due to technical difficulties. NWM Issue 17 will be published on Thursday Oct. 12.

Please note Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-CU-0405 copper grade A cathode premium, in-whs Shanghai which was published incorrectly on Friday October 13