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Scrap processor TSR will supply aluminium flat-roller Novelis with high-grade European aluminium scrap that can serve as a “sustainable P1020 substitute,” a TSR executive told Fastmarkets on Thursday October 10.
Supply chains for battery and critical raw materials will reorganize themselves, with market efficiency superseding subsidies in supply chains, delegates heard at the recent Financial Times Mining Summit.
Market participants shared insight into the market dynamics for copper, nickel, zinc, lead and tin during LME Week, which ran September 30-October 4
The Western world’s industrial strength is beginning to drop, but Jakob Stausholm, chief executive officer of Rio Tinto, said at a London Metal Exchange seminar that there was “plenty of demand to be unlocked from reindustrialization.”
Demand for zinc was expected to grow by 2030, despite the challenges facing both the supply and demand sides, Andrew Green, executive director of the International Zinc Association, said in an exclusive interview with Fastmarkets during LME Week in London
Here are the key takeaways from market participants on US ferrous scrap metal prices, market confidence, inventory and more from our October survey
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