Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More
Liberty Steel plans to replace the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) at its Galati plant in Romania with two electric-arc furnaces (EAFs), with the aim of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, the company announced this week.Within the next three to five years Liberty also plans to install a 2.50 million tonnes-per-year direct reduced iron (DRI) module at the Galati plant, a Liberty Galati...Read More
GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.The investment plans include a Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant with a capacity to produce 2.5 million tonnes - initially using natural gas, but with the aim of transitioning to using hydrogen...Read More
Liberty Steel plans to replace the basic oxygen furnace (BOF) at its Galati plant in Romania with two electric-arc furnaces (EAFs), with the aim of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, the company announced this week.Within the next three to five years Liberty also plans to install a 2.50 million tonnes-per-year direct reduced iron (DRI) module at the Galati plant, a Liberty Galati...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More
European producers of hot-rolled coil will announce domestic price increases in the middle of June despite low demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday June 11.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was calculated at ?,?396.70 ($450.74) per tonne on Thursday June 11, down by ?,?1.22 per tonne from ?,?397.92 per tonne on Wednesday June 10.The index w...Read More
All base metals lost ground during trading on Thursday June 11, with the London Metal Exchange three-month aluminium price falling by 2% to close at $1,601.50 per tonne.There were 15,086 lots of aluminium traded on Thursday, and the underlying aluminium price touched an intraday high of $1,629.50 per tonne, although that is still lower than Wednesday's closing price of $1,638 per tonne.LME alumini...Read More
Chinese vanadium price rises have increased the differential with the European vanadium market, sparking interest in import business in China, market sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets assessed the price of ferro-vanadium, 78% V min, fob China at $30-31.50 per kg on Thursday June 11, up by 3.4% week on week and its fourth consecutive weekly rise, while its assessment for the ferro-van...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More
The London Metal Exchange recently reiterated its willingness to facilitate spot trading of low carbon aluminium. While not a new concept for the exchange, it would serve two important purposes. First, it would provide more transparent, digitalized data on the specification of its aluminium brands and determine whether people are actually paying more for low carbon metal. Second, it would pro...Read More
The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. The exchange is set to begin exploring steps to incorporate diversified aluminium production into its systems, LME chief executive...Read More
The London Metal Exchange aluminium price has climbed 6.5% so far this month, piggybacking on the uptrend in the rest of the complex, even though aluminium stocks at registered warehouses are at a three-year high. The three-month aluminium price hit an intraday high of $1,640 per tonne before closing at $1,627.50 per tonne on June 10, up from $1,528 per tonne at the start of the month. This is up...Read More
A slew of extensive stimulus measures to boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic is unlikely to provide any immediate support to prices for cobalt and lithium in China, according to market participants. In the past two weeks, several European countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, either announced schemes to encourage the adop...Read More
All base metals lost ground during trading on Thursday June 11, with the London Metal Exchange three-month aluminium price falling by 2% to close at $1,601.50 per tonne.There were 15,086 lots of aluminium traded on Thursday, and the underlying aluminium price touched an intraday high of $1,629.50 per tonne, although that is still lower than Wednesday's closing price of $1,638 per tonne.LME alumini...Read More
The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. The exchange is set to begin exploring steps to incorporate diversified aluminium production into its systems, LME chief executive...Read More
The London Metal Exchange aluminium price has climbed 6.5% so far this month, piggybacking on the uptrend in the rest of the complex, even though aluminium stocks at registered warehouses are at a three-year high. The three-month aluminium price hit an intraday high of $1,640 per tonne before closing at $1,627.50 per tonne on June 10, up from $1,528 per tonne at the start of the month. This is up...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Iron ore prices have shot up as market participants have judged the supply risks from Covid-19 higher at this point in time when there is already a tight seaborne market. Despite the efforts to ramp up, Vale is struggling to catch up with its pre-dam disaster export volumes and its slow recovery has only been hit further by...Read More
The London Metal Exchange has bolstered efforts to explore low-carbon initiatives this month, emphasizing green aluminium production as its target, but at a time of unprecedented distortions across the global raw materials supply chain, market sentiment remains mixed. The exchange is set to begin exploring steps to incorporate diversified aluminium production into its systems, LME chief executive...Read More
The London Metal Exchange aluminium price has climbed 6.5% so far this month, piggybacking on the uptrend in the rest of the complex, even though aluminium stocks at registered warehouses are at a three-year high. The three-month aluminium price hit an intraday high of $1,640 per tonne before closing at $1,627.50 per tonne on June 10, up from $1,528 per tonne at the start of the month. This is up...Read More
The London Metal Exchange recently reiterated its willingness to facilitate spot trading of low carbon aluminium. While not a new concept for the exchange, it would serve two important purposes. First, it would provide more transparent, digitalized data on the specification of its aluminium brands and determine whether people are actually paying more for low carbon metal. Second, it would pro...Read More