Take a look at the five key talking points across the aluminium raw material markets ahead of Fastmarkets’ Bauxite & Alumina Conference

Metal Bulletin has today corrected its assessment for the Turkey rebar export market.

The Mexican rebar market is expected to remain largely stable in 2016, as private investments in the construction sector are compensating for reduced expenditure on public works.

The high price in the Russian domestic rebar price range was showing incorrectly in the database from December 24 2012 to February 4 2013. The correct range for the period is 16,280-17,960 roubles.

Ferrous scrap prices in eastern China saw two weeks of continuous falls come to a halt as prices stabilised on a rally in rebar values.

Even with prices at all-time highs, there is a very high likelihood for upward momentum to persist over the coming decade, according to serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Lars Tvede

Fastmarkets has discontinued its weekly assessments of the Latin America rebar export price, which was reported on a dollar per tonne fob main port basis, with effect from Friday March 15.

Fastmarkets has discontinued its weekly price assessment for Algeria rebar imports, expressed in € per tonne cfr. There will be no price assessment on October 10.

Peruvian mills Aceros Arequipa and Gerdau’s Siderperú saw their combined rebar output increase by 4.8% year-on-year in the first half of 2014.

The high price in the Russian domestic rebar price range was showing incorrectly in the database from December 24 2012 to February 4 2013. The correct range for the period is 16,280-17,960 roubles.