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    The global recovered paper (RCP) market has been quite volatile for the past couple of years. After a strong upturn in 2021, the global market for bulk grades of RCP collapsed in the second half of 2022. Most regions found their bottoms at the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023, and the global […]

    There has been a recent uptick in sunflower oil offers from Russian sellers, with many trades of Russian-origin sunflower oil taking place last week

    In a letter to its employees seen by Fastmarkets on Wednesday January 24, the independently owned Magnitude 7 Metals LLC aluminium smelter in Marston, Missouri said it would curtail its operations over the course of the next three to five days, and that “most employees will no longer be required after January 28”

    High stainless steel production in China in 2023 generated lofty imports of raw materials, including chrome ore, ferro-chrome, nickel pig iron (NPI) and ferro-nickel

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