RISI is seeking feedback on how to best combine Crow’s and Random Lengths to enhance wood products coverage. For decades, these two price reporting services endeavored to bring the most pertinent, up to date information possible to the wood products industry. The combination of these two entities provides an opportunity for RISI to improve and […]

Mixed paper appeared dead last July when China told the World Trade Organization it would ban global imports of the material. Now today, after landfilling it in various parts of the USA and a price crash to about $0/ton on the domestic market, three to four new containerboard capacity projects could help mixed paper make […]

Price spreads widened in the European molybdenum markets in the middle of the week that began on Monday August 27, after easing the week before, sources told Metal Bulletin this week.

Due to continuing technical problems, we have been unable to publish the Metal Bulletin Daily PDF for Wednesday July 18.

Multiple factors have a bearing on the price of iron ore. In this article we explain how price indicators, indices and differentials provide transparency and opportunities for risk management

Exceptionally, RISI will publish June US recovered paper prices one day later on June 6, rather than the planned June 5. This change is deemed necessary because of the Chinese government’s surprise announcement on May 3 that it will be inspecting 100% of US recovered paper exports, from May 4 through June 4. No country […]

Nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange are trading at their highest since December 2014, with concerns about further sanctions fueling a significant rally, sources said.

Over the last few weeks RISI has proposed a number of changes to its North American and Asian recovered paper coverage, all of them subject to stakeholder consultation. As the changes are widespread and quite complex, we thought it would be useful to provide a simple summary. The main changes are: To stop assessing Mixed […]

The large price gap between European and Asian prices for stainless steel is making it difficult to raise EU base prices, according to Spanish stainless producer Acerinox.

Prices in the global steel billet market were mostly trending upward last week amid enlivened demand at some destinations as well as increased scrap prices, Metal Bulletin has learnt.