Fastmarkets launches US aluminium scrap 95/5 extrusions, clean cast wheels price assessments: pricing notice

Fastmarkets launched two new aluminium scrap prices on Thursday, April 9, adding to Fastmarkets’ suite of recycled non-ferrous metals price assessments.

The launch will elevate and expand Fastmarkets’ aluminium scrap coverage by including the following grades:

• Aluminium scrap, 95/5 extrusions, buying price, mills specialty consumers’ buying price, delivered consumer US, US cents/lb
• Aluminium scrap clean cast wheels, buying price, delivered Midwest secondary smelters, US cents/lb.

Section 232 tariffs and the resulting high aluminium premiums have led to increased costs and rising interest in recycled materials as a substitute for primary aluminium to circumvent these costs.

Additionally, rising demand from the export markets has kept pressure on aluminium scrap supplies and boosted prices, amid ongoing uncertainty over trade policy and primary price volatility.

The current Middle East conflict is the latest geopolitical incident to tighten global aluminium supplies and has the potential to add additional pressure to global supply chains.

The aluminium recycling and aluminium scrap markets have played, and will continue to play, a key role in boosting domestic supplies of aluminium material as manufacturers find the best ways to use secondary material to replace or support primary material.

According to data from the US Department of Commerce, in 2025 the US exported 2.263 million short tons of aluminium scrap, excluding UBCs, up 15.82% from 2024 and up 31.57% from 2023. At the same time, the US imported 940,509 short tons of aluminium scrap, up by 26.8% from 2024 and up 33.5% compared with 2023.

The increase in both export and import tonnages is a clear signal of the increasing strain on domestic demand for aluminium material, a rising cost curve and mounting competition for units from overseas buyers.

Fastmarkets will be able to provide further insight and transparency to a growing market via the launch of the following grades:

MB-AL-0437 – Aluminium scrap 95/5 extrusions, mills specialty consumers’ buying price, delivered consumer US, US cents/lb
Quantity: Truckload, 20-25 tonnes (about 44,000-55,000 lb)
Incoterm: Delivered at place
Location: US Midwest, delivered consumer
Quality: Shall consist of one alloy (typically 6063/HE9) of 95% clean, 5% impure
material. Material may contain butt ends from the extrusion process but must be free of any foreign contamination. Anodized material is acceptable.
Unit: US cents per lb
Delivery period: 30 days
Data window: Thursday 4pm EST-Thursday 3:59pm EST
Publication: Weekly, Thursday 4-5pm EST, aligned to the US holiday calendar
Notes: ReMa code: Tata. Also known as 6063

MB-AL-0438 – Aluminium scrap clean cast wheels, buying price, delivered Midwest secondary smelters, US cents/lb
Quantity: Truckload, 20-25 tonnes (about 44,000-55,000 lb)
Incoterm: Delivered at place
Location: US Midwest, delivered secondary smelters
Quality: Clean cast aluminium wheels
Unit: US cents per lb
Delivery period: 30 days
Data window: Thursday 4pm EST-Thursday 3:59pm EST
Publication: Weekly, Thursday 4-5pm EST, aligned to the US holiday calendar
Notes: ReMA code: Troma

If you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices or if you would like to provide feedback, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and metalsrecycling@fastmarkets.com. 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 the Fastmarkets methodology page.