Fastmarkets will change the thickness of its steel heavy plate, 20-60mm, import, cfr main port India, $/tonne price assessment to 10-40mm after a month-long consultation.

As previously announced, Fastmarkets RISI has launched new price assessments for fluff pulp delivered China as part of ongoing efforts to bring greater transparency to the markets we serve. The new price assessments will be published monthly in PPI Pulp & Paper Week, PPI Asia, World Pulp Monthly Table 5, Nonwovens Markets, the Fastmarkets RISI […]

Following market consultation and as previously announced, Random Lengths will make the following changes over the next few weeks. Random Lengths to move to simplify monthly average calculation With effect from September 2020, Random Lengths will simplify the process for calculating monthly averages. Monthly averages appear in the Random Lengths weekly publication and in Yardstick. […]

After a period of consultation, Fastmarkets will amend the specification of its spodumene cif China price and discontinue its fob Australia and 7-7.5% cif China prices to better reflect emerging norms in the spodumene market that serve the lithium battery-grade chemicals industry.

Despite the resumption of economic activities and signs of recovery in various sectors, paper mills are struggling to stay afloat as demand has not picked up yet, say industry operators. Sales of writing and printing paper, the key product of local mills, slumped 70 per cent to 15,000 tonnes per month since the detection of […]

Fastmarkets today launches two new prices for import containerized scrap and one for deep-sea bulk scrap, all on a cfr Bangladesh basis.

Following a period of consultation, Fastmarkets has amended the specification of its assessment for steel cold-rolled coil domestic, delivered Eastern China domestic to include DC01 products.

After a period of consultation, Fastmarkets will change the location of the fob China rebar index from Tianjin to China main ports.

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue the publication of its trade logs for two Chinese fob vanadium price assessments.

Fastmarkets proposes to launch two new European high-carbon ferro-chrome price assessments and to eventually discontinue the existing assessment.