Steel producers in the United States remain optimistic about construction demand despite its lackluster short-term outlook, according to market participants

Fastmarkets senior analyst and forecaster, Tore Alden, answers six key questions on the challenges faced by the sustainable aviation fuel industry

Copper prices have pushed up on global metal exchanges in recent weeks and the London Metal Exchange three-month copper price hit an all-time high on Monday May 20, but what are the key reasons behind the record-breaking surge in prices?

The US Department of Treasury has released its definition of a Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) for the purposes of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – and there are big implications for nickel.

US scrap battery volumes are expected to soar over the next decade, precipitated by increased electrification and decarbonization efforts, according to estimates from Fastmarkets’ research team

The US Treasury Department will give automakers a two-year extension to 2027 on restrictions to some hard-to-trace minerals from China, such as graphite contained in anodes, it said in an announcement on Friday May 3

The United States’ Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and ongoing renewable energy transition could reorientate silicon consumption and production dynamics, emphasizing the demand for high-quality material required for solar panels, computer chips and electric vehicles (EVs)

An overarching theme of decarbonization was on display at the Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s AISTech conference in Detroit, Michigan, among US steel industry leaders in May

Critical metal refiner Nth Cycle became the first company in the US to produce premium nickel-cobalt mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP) this week, when it began commercial-scale operations on Monday September 9

Graphite companies Nouveau Monde Graphite, Novonix and Westwater have all announced offtake agreements in a developing US anode supply chain to comply with that country’s generous subsidy scheme under the Inflation Reduction Act and to ease the current dependence on China for material, Fastmarkets heard on Thursday February 15