Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday August 26 that are worth another look.Fastmarkets has plotted the locations of the continuing and proposed projects for the decarbonization of the European steel sector.The striking workers union at...Read More
The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade,...Read More
Steel hot-rolled coil prices in Europe remained largely flat on Thursday August 26 in typically slow summer trading conditions, while buyers and mills attempted to gauge the market direction for September.Market participants in Northern Europe have been returning to the market after holidays but trading in the region remained limited. Buyers were cautious about making new deals, expecting prices t...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price movesDalila Ouerghi and...Read More
Turkey's reinforcing bar and wire rod export prices have continued to fall over the past week amid sluggish demand, supported by softening scrap costs, market participants told Fastmarkets on Thursday August 26.The country's steelmakers have reduced their rebar offers for exports to $670-675 per tonne fob on actual-weight basis from $680-695 per tonne fob last week. But no significant bo...Read More
China imported 3.77 million tonnes of coking coal in July, down by 49% year on year and 9% lower month on month, according to the latest Chinese customs data.Russia remained China's largest supplier of coking coal for a third month in July, accounting for 33% of total imports.Canada (23%), the United States (17%), and Mongolia (13%) were China's second-, third- and fourth-largest suppliers last mo...Read More
Seaborne premium hard coking coal and hard coking coal prices in the cfr market both increased by over $16 per tonne on Thursday August 26, with rising offer prices and market expectations.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $408.93 per tonne, up $17.09 per tonneHard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $385.67 per tonne, up $20.36 per tonnePremium hard coking coal fob DBCT: $243.98 p...Read More
A summary of Chinese battery materials producer GEM's financial and production results for the six months ended June 30, 2021, as released by the company on Thursday August 26.In brief GEM's annual capacity of ternary precursor materials totaled 130,000 tonnes at the end of June, unchanged from the end of last year. The company has shifted production focus to nickel-rich ternary precursor material...Read More
Fastmarkets has plotted the locations of the continuing and proposed projects for the decarbonization of the European steel sector.This includes projects and targets for green steel, carbon capture, carbon neutral, net zero, low-carbon emissions and fossil-free steel. Hotspots appear in Germany, France and Sweden, where steelmaking is already well established. Policy, funding and sharing of infras...Read More
Fastmarkets on Thursday August 26 launches a fortnightly assessment of the China pig iron import price, reported on a US-dollar-per-tonne-cfr-China basis. After a consultation period that ended on August 9, Fastmarkets has launched its pig iron, import, cfr China, $ per tonne assessment, effective on Thursday August 26. Market sources expect China to import pig iron in increasing volumes due to it...Read More
Seaborne premium hard coking coal and hard coking coal prices in the cfr market both increased by over $16 per tonne on Thursday August 26, with rising offer prices and market expectations.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $408.93 per tonne, up $17.09 per tonneHard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $385.67 per tonne, up $20.36 per tonnePremium hard coking coal fob DBCT: $243.98 p...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange performed well during the day but largely failed to hold momentum by 5pm on Thursday August 26, despite reaching intraday highs above Wednesday's closing levels.The aluminium three-month contract hit $2,639 per tonne during Thursday's trading, just $3 per tonne below its latest year-to-date high of $2,642 per tonne from July 30.It was the most traded...Read More
Sentiment in the European market for steel heavy plate was negative in the week to Wednesday August 25 due to declines in the costs for raw materials and semi-finished steel prices, as well as slow demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel domestic plate, 8-40mm, exw Southern Europe, was ?,?920-940 ($1,081-1,105) per tonne on August 25, down by ?,?10-20 per tonne wee...Read More
Domestic long steel prices in Turkey have continued to weaken in line with falling scrap costs and the strengthening lira, market sources said on Thursday August 26.Turkish steel producers were keeping their deep-sea scrap purchases at a slow pace to be able to put downward pressure on scrap prices.The most recent deep-sea scrap trade was recorded on August 25, when a steel mill in the Iskenderun...Read More
Fastmarkets has plotted the locations of the continuing and proposed projects for the decarbonization of the European steel sector.This includes projects and targets for green steel, carbon capture, carbon neutral, net zero, low-carbon emissions and fossil-free steel. Hotspots appear in Germany, France and Sweden, where steelmaking is already well established. Policy, funding and sharing of infras...Read More
Japanese lower-grade scrap prices are facing renewed pressure, and Shindachi busheling prices have continued to be propped up in recent weeks by reduced generation at automaker Toyota, sources told Fastmarkets.Key Japanese mills reduce some scrap bid pricesGaps between bids and offers narrow downward with lower cost scrap emerging in the Chinese marketTaiwan imported containerized scrap prices edg...Read More
Japanese lower-grade scrap prices are facing renewed pressure, and Shindachi busheling prices have continued to be propped up in recent weeks by reduced generation at automaker Toyota, sources told Fastmarkets.Key Japanese mills reduce some scrap bid pricesGaps between bids and offers narrow downward with lower cost scrap emerging in the Chinese marketTaiwan imported containerized scrap prices edg...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price movesDalila Ouerghi and...Read More
The Turkish steel mills have gone quiet in the deep-sea scrap markets once again after booking a single cargo earlier in the week, market sources said on Thursday August 26.A steel mill in the Iskenderun region booked a Belgium-origin cargo on Wednesday, comprising 22,500 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) and 12,500 tonnes of bonus at an average price of $450 per tonne cfr. The HMS 1&2 (80:20) price of th...Read More
Norwegian ferro-silicon producer Finnfjord Smelteverk will stop ferro-silicon production for two weeks in October because of planned maintenance to its three furnaces, a source told Fastmarkets.The company is stopping output as part of its usual annual overhaul at its operations, although that usually happens in September or earlier in the third quarter. The move comes at a time of record peak pri...Read More