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      Decoding carbon credits with Mercuria’s Enric Arderiu | Fast Forward
      Everything you need to know about how voluntary carbon markets are shaping climate action
      June 27, 2025
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      By the Fastmarkets team
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    • Launch of Fastmarkets’ Mexican steel HRC index, rebar price assessment, delivered Monterrey
      The first publication of the Monterrey HRC and rebar assessments is scheduled for Thursday June 26. The price assessments will be published weekly, every Thursday, 2-3pm (Eastern Time). The specifications are as follows: MB-STE-0934 Steel hot-rolled coil index, delivered Monterrey, Mexico, peso per tonneQuality: SAE 1006-1008 commercial steel and corresponding grades, 48 inches wide, caliber 8-14Quantity: Min 50 […]
      June 26, 2025
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      By Gabriela Brumatti, Ana Enis, Rachel McGuire
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    • Light, Bottle, Shaker
      Rio Tinto sharpens focus on direct lithium extraction and Lithium Triangle
      Global mining major Rio Tinto has sharpened its focus on lithium, betting not just on traditional hard rock or brine evaporation but on an emerging technology that could reshape the industry – direct lithium extraction (DLE)
      June 26, 2025
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      By Viral Shah, Ewan Thomson, the Fastmarkets team
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      ArcelorMittal’s tailored blanks transform automaking
      The automotive industry's embrace of the pioneering steelmaking technology of tailored welded blanks to make hot stamped door rings has reached a break-out point with annual output volumes expected to double over the next five years
      June 26, 2025
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      By Robert England
      Insights
    • Aircraft, Airliner, Airplane
      Revised Dutch RED III draft legislation removes aviation from national mandate, aims to ban double-counting
      The Netherlands has released an update to its current biofuels mandate ahead of the full implementation of the third iteration of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) in the form of a draft proposal submitted to the Dutch Government on Friday June 20.
      June 26, 2025
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      By Alexandra Chapman, Tom Hughes
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    • Tire, Transportation, Truck
      European sawn timber industry transformed by €400M buying spree
      A major merger and acquisition (M&A) wave, conservatively estimated to exceed €450 million ($516 million) in deal value across European sawn timber markets—including over €160 million in disclosed deals plus several large undisclosed transactions and recent distressed asset acquisitions—signals a fundamental shift toward market concentration that could likely reduce pricing volatility while creating new competitive dynamics favoring integrated participants and Baltic production hubs.
      June 26, 2025
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      By Sanjoy Narayan
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    • Shipping boxes, secondary packaging for shipping, containerboard for parcels transportation
      Asian containerboard markets and tariff uncertainty
      My last Viewpoint at the end of February provided some thoughts on the outlook for Asian paper and board markets in 2025, and it highlighted three areas of concern that could hold back growth: the trade war, China's sluggish economy and inflation. Fast forward four months and a lot has happened, especially related to the trade war. In this Viewpoint, I provide my latest thoughts on developments in these three areas and then drill down specifically on the containerboard market and look at what has happened and where things are going.
      June 26, 2025
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      By Beth Lis
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    • Delayed publication of REDD+ and IFM assessments
      The following prices were affected: CB-CC-0001 REDD+, Latin America, $ per tCO2eCB-CC-0002 REDD+ v19 differential, Latin America, $ per tCO2eCB-CC-0003 REDD+ v20 differential, Latin America, $ per tCO2eCB-CC-0004 REDD+ v21 differential, Latin America, $ per tCO2eCB-CC-0005 REDD+, Sub-Saharan Africa, $ per tCO2eCB-CC-0006 REDD+ v19 differential, Sub-Saharan Africa, $ per tCO2eCB-CC-0007 REDD+ v20 differential, Sub-Saharan Africa, […]
      June 25, 2025
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      By Kanchan Yadav
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    • Forge, Architecture, Building
      EAF steel: Addressing decarbonization in the sector
      The decarbonization of the steel industry has been widely discussed in Europe over the past few years. But much of the focus has been on blast furnace–basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) based mills, given their higher carbon intensity.
      June 25, 2025
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      By Julia Bolotova, Lee Allen, the Fastmarkets team
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    • Coil, Spiral, Machine
      European steel industry: ArcelorMittal halts EAF/DRI project
      Leading European steelmaker ArcelorMittal has scrapped a planned EAF-DRI project in Germany due to the poor economic environment and a “lack of economic viability,” the company said on June 19.
      June 25, 2025
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      By Julia Bolotova
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    Open consultation on Fastmarkets’ black mass price assessment specifications

    Fastmarkets is inviting feedback on the methodology specifications on most of its black mass payables indicators following recent changes to quality and moisture content of materials being traded on the spot market. The purpose of this review is to ensure that the assessments continue to accurately reflect prevailing market conditions in the rapidly-changing black mass […]

    September 19, 2025
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    By: Fastmarkets pricing team
    Steel, Window
    Mexican steel: Tariff shifts could have “mixed effects” on industry

    Mexico will impose tariffs on around 1,400 imported products from countries with which it does not have a trade agreement, according to Mexican government officials, in a move that industry sources say signals alignment with the US but could have “mixed effects” for the steel industry.

    September 19, 2025
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    By: Rachel McGuire
    EU CBAM risks for aluminium
    Automobile sales: China targets a 3% growth in 2025

    China set a higher target for automobile sales in 2025 compared with a year earlier, with the country aiming to keep the upward momentum in 2026, according to a notice published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Friday September 12.

    September 19, 2025
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    By: Jessica Zong
    Wood, Box, Crate
    Pallets in the FMCG industry: A key component to every supply chain

    Find out how pallets in the FMCG industry contribute to smooth handling, storage, and transportation of goods.

    September 19, 2025
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    By: Fastmarkets Forest Products
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