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The Scrap Price Bulletin website is no longer active. If you’re looking for current iron and steel scrap metal prices, market commentary or short-term outlooks, Fastmarkets has you covered.

All of our trusted Fastmarkets SPB (formerly known as Scrap Price Bulletin or Iron Age) prices and commentary are available through the Fastmarkets platform.

We’re happy to continue to serve you as the trusted source for steel and iron scrap prices for scrap brokers, generators, distributors and manufacturers with weekly assessments for scrap prices in 18 major markets across North America.


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Track, chart, compare and export 950+ global metal and mining prices with Fastmarkets’ price data.

We provide you with the price data and insights to understand the forces driving market volatility, interpret economic developments and recognize factors impacting the supply chain.

Our prices are market-reflective, assessing both the buy and sell-side of transactions. Inform your strategy with price data that is unbiased, IOSCO compliant, benchmarked and used across the metals industries worldwide.

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Stay connected and understand movement around your metals and mining markets with news and market coverage from our wide network of trained price reporters and analysts.

We’ve got you covered across steel and steel raw materials, scrap and secondary, ores and alloys, base metals, minor metals, industrial minerals markets, including the energy transition and how it drives change, so you’ll always be ahead of your markets.

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Our independent research and expert analysis provide transparency into the movement around metals and mining markets globally, giving you the tools to minimize the risk of the future today and plan ahead with confidence.

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What’s happening in global scrap markets today?

Copper recycling will become increasingly critical as the world transitions to cleaner energy systems, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a special report published early this week.

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-AL-0399 aluminium scrap, old sheet (Taint/Tabor), cut sheared, 5-8% attachments, cif India price assessment, which was published incorrectly on Wednesday November 20.

View the Fastmarkets holiday non-ferrous pricing schedule for 2025.

Read more about these new futures contracts against Fastmarkets’ benchmark assessment for the Chicago No. 1 busheling ferrous scrap price

Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its MB-STE-0423 Steel scrap shredded, index, delivered Midwest mill, $/gross ton; its MB-STE-0424 Steel scrap No1 heavy melt, index, delivered Midwest mill, $/gross ton and its MB-STE-0882 Steel scrap No1 busheling, indicator, delivered Midwest mill, $/gross ton, effective January 2025.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ Japan export steel scrap assessments for Wednesday November 13 was delayed because of a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

Fastmarkets advises that, as of Monday November 11, certain monthly North American ferrous scrap assessments are yet to settle.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ Turkey steel scrap indices for Monday November 11 was delayed because of a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

On Friday November 8, 2024, Fastmarkets published MB-STE-0232 Steel scrap No1 busheling, consumer buying price, delivered mill Chicago, $/gross ton.

Fastmarkets advises that, as of Friday November 8, certain monthly North American ferrous scrap assessments had yet to be settled.