The Chinese pulp sector faces supply disruptions and market uncertainty as Canadian mills consider closures amid falling prices

Brazilian soybean prices are under further pressure from another bumper harvest and weak Chinese demand

In a marketplace with more than enough supply and unsettled demand, pricing for linerboard held unchanged for January, as major integrated mills lined up their Jan. 1 invoices for higher pricing of $70/ton on linerboard and $100-110/ton for corrugating medium in North America’s open market. Based on Fastmarkets’ PPI Pulp & Paper Week pricing survey, roughly one-third […]

In a letter to its employees seen by Fastmarkets on Wednesday January 24, the independently owned Magnitude 7 Metals LLC aluminium smelter in Marston, Missouri said it would curtail its operations over the course of the next three to five days, and that "most employees will no longer be required after January 28"

High stainless steel production in China in 2023 generated lofty imports of raw materials, including chrome ore, ferro-chrome, nickel pig iron (NPI) and ferro-nickel

Brazil's customs data revealed that soybean exports for the first two weeks of January 2024 has already surpassed the figure for all of January 2023

The rise in capacity-building in the past years in both China and Indonesia quickly turned nickel market once in short-supply into an oversupplied one, not only in China, but also globally

A new heavy rare earth mineral was discovered in China's Bayan Obo district, in Baotou city of Inner Mongolia, according to the daily news released by the country's Baogang group

Oversupply caused by growing refining capacity in China overturned the fundamentals of the Chinese Class-1 nickel market in 2023 and the effects are expected to be extended and amplified in 2024, sources told Fastmarkets

The Asian aluminium market is expected to continue its recovery in 2024 after it struggled to meet expectations in the prior year, market participants have told Fastmarkets