Fastmarkets has launched a new weekly price assessment for tungsten unwrought metal bar, 99.8% min W, spot price, CIF main ports Europe, US, Japan $ per kg on Friday May 29.

Tissue jumbo roll prices continued their upward trend in Europe during May, driven by rising input costs. Virgin fiber-based rolls increased by €20-30 per tonne, with similar hikes seen for recycled grades.

Fastmarkets has decided to discontinue its Europe Northwest rapemeal, Ukraine Danube sunoil, corn handy and corn handy premium price assessments.

Fastmarkets has launched four monthly price assessments for tissue jumbo rolls delivered to Europe on Thursday May 28.

Fastmarkets will launch a new weekly price assessment for tungsten unwrought metal bar, 99.8% min W, spot price, CIF main ports Europe, US, Japan $ per kg on Friday May 29.

Fastmarkets is proposing a delayed launch of new price series for its benchmark European PIX gross pulp prices and North American effective list pulp prices to March 2027, and a simplified conversion formula, based on market feedback.

As CBAM and the EU ETS reshape cost structures across Europe’s automotive supply chains, OEMs are under growing pressure to protect margins while navigating opaque carbon pass-through.

A developing El Niño weather pattern is drawing fresh attention across European metals markets at a moment when the continent‘s energy infrastructure is already under acute stress – and for producers and traders in secondary aluminium and ferrous scrap, the implications are hard to ignore.

Fastmarkets has launched three weekly wheat freight rate assessments — Ukraine-Egypt, CVB-Egypt and Russia-Saudi Arabia — and has clarified that its existing Black Sea-North Africa freight assessment refers to the Russia-Egypt route and its Black Sea-Persian Gulf assessment refers to the Russia-Iran route. The Russia-Egypt assessment will also transition from Supramax to Handy-sized vessels. All changes are effective Wednesday May 20, 2026.

The four assessments will cover continental Europe and the UK, for tissue jumbo rolls made from wood pulp and recycled pulp in a basis weight range of 14.5-18.0g per square meter. The decision follows a one-month consultation period that ended on Saturday May 16. The proposed specifications are as follows: FP-TS-0009 Tissue, wood pulp jumbo rolls for […]