ArcelorMittal officially opened on Wednesday November 13 the expansion of its galvanizing line at the Vega unit, in southern Brazil, aiming to increase the supply of higher value-added materials in the country amid an expectation of reduced imports, executives said.

Fastmarkets has corrected the notice regarding the decision to delist certain grades of its North American non-ferrous scrap dealer buying prices.

The European Space Agency’s sustainability chief revealed that research into using lunar regolith for solar panel production was accelerating as germanium shortages threatened traditional space power systems.

US President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday March 4 contained key strategic policy objectives that will have a direct impact on global metals markets. Fastmarkets takes a high-level view of the key strategies below: “They tariff us…we will tariff them.” The Trump administration will introduce reciprocal tariffs on all countries that levy duties […]

Wogen Resources has signed a binding offtake agreement with Australian antimony miner Larvotto Resources for the sales rights of the miner’s upcoming antimony-gold concentrate produced during the first seven years of mining, the companies confirmed with Fastmarkets on Monday December 2.

China has introduced new export controls on five critical metals and related technologies, effective from February 4.

Over a decade since its first attempt, Glencore appears to have taken another tilt at Rio Tinto.

Fastmarkets is proposing a comprehensive overhaul of its suite of North American non-ferrous scrap dealer buying prices to improve the accuracy of its price assessments amid low levels of liquidity in select markets.

Leading Chinese steelmakers will raise prices for their products by up to 600 yuan ($85) per tonne for domestic sales in November, following a significant rally in Shanghai steel futures prices and an increase in demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday October 10.

Aluminium price on China’s economy Range-trading has characterized the LME aluminium price as the decline since the start of October attempts to stabilize. At the beginning of the year, market participants had overestimated China’s ability to stimulate its way out of the Covid-lockdown era, putting too much emphasis on a fast and robust recovery. However, as China’s economic […]