Fastmarkets wishes to clarify details around the following aspects of the pricing calendar for battery and technical grade lithium prices on a CIF China, Japan and Korea basis.

This price is scheduled for publication at 6pm Singapore time, twice-weekly, but was published four hours late.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ EU, UK stainless steel scrap prices was delayed because of a technical error on Friday September 29.

Fastmarkets RISI invited feedback from the industry on the pricing methodology for North American recovered paper, via an open consultation process between Aug. 8 and Sept. 1, 2023. This consultation was done as part of our published annual methodology review process. No feedback was received during the consultation period and therefore no changes will be made to the methodologies at this stage.

Fastmarkets will calculate its index for MB-IRO-0009 iron ore 65% Fe Brazil-origin fines, cfr Qingdao, $/tonne to two decimal places from October 2, instead of one decimal place, which is done currently.

Fastmarkets proposes to launch a cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate payable indicator, % cobalt metal standard grade in-whs Rotterdam, CIF China, Japan, and South Korea and cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate, outright price, CIF China, Japan, and South Korea, $/tonne.

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the frequency of its MB-NIO-0003 nickel mixed hydroxide precipitate outright price, cif China, Japan, and South Korea and MB-NIO-0004 nickel mixed hydroxide precipitate payable indicator, % London Metal Exchange, cif China, Japan, and South Korea from once per week to daily.

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the specifications of its low carbon differentials and re-launch them via two new differentials.

Fastmarkets has launched eight new black mass payable assessments covering nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and nickel cobalt aluminium (NCA) material in Europe and Southeast Asia, along with lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) black mass in South Korea and Europe on Wednesday September 20.

Publication of Fastmarkets’ daily domestic steel hot-rolled coil indices in Northern Europe and Italy on Wednesday September 20 took place earlier than scheduled due to an error.