Fastmarkets proposes to launch weekly price assessments for European aluminium pressure diecasting ingot, DIN 230 and DIN 239, to expand its coverage of Europe’s secondary aluminium alloys market.

Higher prices for cobalt metal have led to increased interest for assays of lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) black mass in Asia, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 12

The real impact will lie in the number of investments that take place, said Fastmarkets’ economist

The battery raw materials markets continued to be confused and uncertain because of the requirements about the sourcing of key raw materials set out by the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday July 12

Fastmarkets has corrected its assessment for the battery-grade lithium carbonate spot price in China, which was published incorrectly on Thursday July 13 due to a reporter error.

Fastmarkets proposes to launch an assessment of the lithium payable as part of its set of weekly price assessments for black mass in the CIF South Korea market, in response to there being more trade making use of lithium payables in the Asian markets and demand from the market for greater transparency.

More stringent targets for the recycling of batteries are about to enter into force in the European Union (EU) after heads of government who met at the Council of the EU moved to rubber-stamp the bloc’s battery regulation this week

Fastmarkets’ pricing database was not accessible at the time some US-based prices were published on Wednesday July 12, due to technical difficulties.

Fastmarkets has corrected its consumer buying price for steel scrap shredded auto scrap, delivered mill Houston to reflect pricing and trend information received after that market was originally settled on Monday July 10.

Demand for old corrugated containers and double-lined kraft corrugated cuttings is growing for southern US mills