The hard coking coal cfr price rose on Thursday September 16 after Wednesday's surge in the premium hard coking coal cfr price, while offer prices for US-origin coking coal rose further, with market participants in China reluctant to procure material.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $560.76 per tonne, up $0.76 per tonneHard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $486.93 per tonne, up...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices continued to fall on Thursday September 16 amid sustained demand weakness, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $107.21 per tonne, down $9.44 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $108.16 per tonne, down $9.64 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $79.65 per tonne, down $8.88 per tonne65% Fe...Read More
An overview of the consumer electronics markets and their latest price moves in the week to Wednesday September 15.Read More
London Metal Exchange base-metals prices were mostly lower at the 5pm close of trading on Thursday September 16, with a rise in the US dollar and the intended release of more metal from China's reserves weighing on the complex.The US Dollar Index reached its highest on Thursday since August 27, with an intraday high of 92.97. The index was well bid, with investors expecting a hawkish view from the...Read More
Brazilian aluminium producer Companhia Brasileira de Alum?-nio (CBA) has decided to join a federal government initiative to reduce power demand in the country, the company said on Thursday September 16.Adhering to this program will not affect production, however, CBA said. It will adjust consumption hours during the day to a schedule yet to be defined by the country's national electric system oper...Read More
Austria Metall AG (AMAG) has committed to carbon neutrality by 2040 and has called for politicians to create a framework for the stable supply of green energy at competitive prices in good time.The company laid out its strategy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, which will focus on increased recycling, energy efficiency and the replacement of fossil fuels.Like its peers in the metals and mining...Read More
Service Center Metals (SCM) will invest $101.7 million on the largest expansion in its almost 20-year history, the Richmond, Virginia-based aluminium extrusion maker said on Tuesday September 14.The state of Virginia additionally will contribute $1.25 million in grants for SCM's expansion in Prince George County, a company spokesperson confirmed to Fastmarkets.The company will construct an alumini...Read More
Chilean state-owned copper producer Codelco has signed a labor agreement to last until 2024 with the No6 Benito Tapia Tapia trade union, which represents workers at its Salvador division, the company said on Wednesday September 15.The new agreement will be valid for 36 months. According to Codelco, 61% of the union's members voted in favor of taking no wage rise but having a settlement bonus of 4,...Read More
China's Yunnan province might reconsider its energy consumption curbs, it stated in a notice on Saturday September 11.In a notice that was issued by the Yunnan provincial Development and Reform Commission and seen by Fastmarkets, the province highlighted the operational curbs of a few industries with high energy consumption.The province stepped up restrictions of both ferrous and non-ferrous indus...Read More
There was a divergence in London Metal Exchange prices in the morning of September 16, with lead being the only metal to register gains, while copper, aluminum and nickel all fell - with the latter down by almost $1,000. Lead's three-month price, after a few days of persistent selling, was up by a slight $7 to $2,242 per tonne on Thursday at 9am. On Wednesday, the metal touched $2,213 per tonne, i...Read More
Iran posted a notable fall in steel product output in the first five months of the current Persian year (March 21-August 22, 2021), compared with the same period last year according to the Iranian Steel Producers Association (ISPA).Local producers made 10.8 million tonnes of semi-finished products over the period, down 12% year on year, ISPA data shows.The decline in production came as steel mills...Read More
Trading activity remained slow in the European hot-rolled coil market on Thursday September 16 because buyers held back from deals while they wait for a clearer price trend, sources told Fastmarkets.Buyers are waiting for the new quota period, which will start on October 1. Market sources said that large volumes of steel products are sitting in European Union ports awaiting customs clearance at th...Read More
Steel billet prices in Turkey have gone down over the past week amid soft demand, market participants told Fastmarkets on Thursday September 16.The suppliers in the Commonwealth of Independent States have reduced their billet offers to Turkish customers to $620-625 per tonne cfr.But Turkish buyers were bidding only $600-605 per tonne cfr, because domestic material was available at $620 per tonne e...Read More
Steel rebar and billet buyers in Egypt are waiting for prices to fall further before placing orders, sources told Fastmarkets.Global billet and rebar prices have recently been weakening; buyers in Egypt are waiting for prices to flatten before placing orders.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet import, cfr main port Turkey was $610-620 per tonne on September 16, falling from $620-...Read More
German steelmaker Salzgitter has settled a contract for the supply of green steel to the Europe's largest home appliance manufacturer BSH Hausger??te, the companies announced on Thursday September 16.In September, Salzgitter's flat steel subsidiary Salzgitter Flachstahl started to supply green steel products with a 66% reduced CO2 footprint to BSH Hausger??te.The low-CO2 steel will initially be us...Read More
Turkish rebar and wire rod export prices remained largely unchanged this week due to a lack of demand, market participants told Fastmarkets on Thursday September 16.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), export, fob main port Turkey, was stable week on week at $660-670 per tonne on Thursday.The country's steelmakers have been offering the material for export...Read More
Turkish steel mills withdrew from the deep-sea scrap markets after booking several cargoes for October shipment, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday September 16.Turkish steelmakers have booked at least five deep-sea cargoes so far in the reported week from the United States, Canada and Baltic Sea. Market participants generally agree that most steelmakers in the country have replenished their sto...Read More
Tata Steel will adopt hydrogen technology at its steelworks at IJmuiden in the Netherlands as part of its sustainability process, the company announced on Wednesday September 15.The company already has a goal for the works to reduce its CO2 emissions by 5 million tonnes per year by 2030, and it has been exploring technological options to achieve this, including the capture and storage of CO2 or a...Read More
The Russian government is considering a near-threefold rise in the minerals extraction tax (MET) on iron ore from 2022 in order to balance the federal budget, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday September 15.The current MET on conditioned ores of ferrous metals in Russia is applied at 16.8%. This is calculated from a fixed base rate of 4.8% multiplied by a coefficient, which is currently 3.5, ac...Read More
Increasing steel production rates in Japan are making Japanese yards increasingly reluctant to offer cargoes to China, market sources told Fastmarkets this week. Better margins to be found in Japan's domestic marketTaiwan continues to chase containerized cargoesContainer scrap offers to Bangladesh fall amid sluggish demandChinaA slowdown in downstream demand has continued to weight on spot demand...Read More