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The ball is in the sellers’ court, but time is on the buyers’ side in the Chinese pulp market
Global refined nickel premiums were broadly steady in the week to Tuesday November 29, with the exception of European briquettes premiums which came under further pressure due to increased supply
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Key data from Fastmarkets’ aluminium ingot ADC 12 pricing session in China on Wednesday November 30
The new proposal would help restore approximately 500 million gallons of blending volumes previously waived by the agency in 2016
German equipment provider SMS Group will provide a logistics and storage system for a forthcoming $238.7 million aluminium foil plant being built in the US by South Korea’s LOTTE Group to meet demand for the material’s use in electric vehicles (EVs)
Contract or spot, fixed or dynamic, hedge or not? How to navigate the current lithium pricing trends
Peter Hannah, senior price development manager at Fastmarkets, discusses key pricing trends in the lithium market and gives his advice for those navigating this volatile time
Fastmarkets has corrected its price indices for US- and Northern Europe-origin steel scrap, CFR Turkey, which were published incorrectly on Thursday December 1 due to a technical error.
Fastmarkets has today discontinued its price assessment for hot-briquetted iron export, fob main port Venezuela (MB-FE-0002).
Fastmarkets’ Amy Bennett talks about the importance of graphite as a battery material in the energy transition and the outlook for the graphite market in 2023
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