Correction to European aluminium PFA prices published in error on May 22

Fastmarkets has deleted the assessments on May 22 of the aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premiums, ddp Germany and ddp Eastern Europe, that were published in error due to a procedural lapse.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated and the corrected assessments were published on Friday May 29 at 17:37 UK time.

The prices affected were:

MB-AL-0339 Aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premium, ddp Germany, $ per tonne

MB-AL-0340 Aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premium, ddp Eastern Europe, $ per tonne

The Germany and Eastern Europe premiums were incorrectly published at $1,000-1,100 per tonne on May 22. The prices were updated to $950-1,050 per tonne on May 29.

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets base metals package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on the early publication of these prices, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and basemetals@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: European primary foundry aluminium alloy.”

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To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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