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Recycling metal is taking on an ever-larger role at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s rapid industrial transformation, recycling giant Al Qaryan Group’s Ferrous Commercial Director Ahmed Khadr told Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview in August.
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Aluminium producers in other countries are increasingly viewing Brazil as an alternative market because of the growing difficulties in accessing the markets in the US because of that country’s import tariffs, market participants said in the week to Thursday August 28.
Critical minerals investment company TechMet Ltd is setting up a new trading arm, TechMet SCM, backed by additional investment from Mercuria Energy Trading.
ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada filed a $2.77 million claim in federal court in Peoria, Illinois against Liberty Steel & Wire Monday August 25 for unpaid purchases of billet shipped to Liberty’s Georgetown, South Carolina facility from September 2023 to the plant’s closing in April 2024.
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