Delayed publication of UK domestic 5C steel scrap price

The publication of MB-STS-0012 UK domestic 5C steel scrap prices for Friday September 6 was delayed because of a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

The affected price was: MB-STS-0012 steel scrap 5C loose old light domestic, delivered inter-merchant UK, £/tonne.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets scrap package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of these indices, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these indices, please contact Ross Yeo by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Ross Yeo, re: UK steel scrap.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to: https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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