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Open consultation on methodology for aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premium, ddp Germany and ddp Eastern Europe in relation to CBAM

Jan 8, 2025 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata

This consultation, which is open until March 14, 2025, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market with respect to impending EU regulations. You can find the current methodology for MB-AL-0339 aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premium, ddp Germany, $/tonne and MB-AL-0340 aluminium primary foundry alloy silicon 7 ingot premium, ddp Eastern Europe, $/tonne here.
Open consultation on methodology for aluminium extrusion billet premiums ddp Italy, ddp North Germany, ddp Spain in relation to CBAM

Dec 12, 2024 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata |James McKeigue

This consultation, which is open until February 28, 2025, looks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market with respect to impending EU regulations.
Correction to aluminium 6063 extrusion billet premium, in-whs dp Rotterdam, on October 11

Oct 11, 2024 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata

The premium was published in error as $530-560 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $525-560 per tonne. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change. This price is part of the Fastmarkets’ aluminium billet North Europe package. For more information, or to provide feedback on this correction notice, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to this premium, please contact Sayaka Kurata by email at: [email protected].
Primobius to build first commercial battery shredding plant for Mercedes

Aug 30, 2023 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata

Germany-based Primobius is owned equally by Australia-based Neometals and German plant manufacturer SMS Group. It has received an order to commission a shredding unit with capacity for 10 tonnes per day, 2,500 tonnes per year, for the carmaker. The company will be responsible for engineering, equipment supply and installation of a fully integrated, closed-loop lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling plant at Kuppenheim.
Proposal to clarify delivery timing for minor metals specifications

Jun 26, 2023 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata |Solomon Cefai

The current methodology specifies “prompt release” for the following minor metals.
Key takeaways from Cobalt Congress 2023

May 22, 2023 | fastmarkets.com | Alexander Cook |Sayaka Kurata

Oversupply and weak demandOversupply and weak demand across the supply chain has pressured the cobalt metal price over the past 12 months. The rapid price decline featured heavily in conversation between market participants on what the second half of the year had in store for the market. “I think the conference was a good sounding board for the market,” a trader said.
NCM batteries expected to keep largest EV market share: Cobalt Congress 2023

May 17, 2023 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata

This is according to analysts who took part in a panel discussion at the Cobalt Institute’s Cobalt Congress in Istanbul on May 10. According to Fastmarkets’ battery raw materials analyst Robert Searle, who was one of the panelists, there is a firming demand for nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) in the second half of the year from the EV industry that will prompt cobalt sulfate prices to increase, despite the growth of LFP demand in China and the West.
Four talking points ahead of Cobalt Congress 2023

May 9, 2023 | fastmarkets.com | Alexander Cook |Sayaka Kurata

Cobalt prices at multi-year lowsMarket participants are heading to the conference with a focus on the collapse of cobalt prices’ over the course of the last 12 months. Forecasts of an oversupplied market and a demand picture heavily affected by macroeconomic factors has pressured prices to fall to multi-year lows.
Northvolt, Scania develop NCM battery for heavy EV trucks

Apr 21, 2023 | fastmarkets.com | Sayaka Kurata

This reinforces demand for nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) in Western markets even as lithium iron phosphate (LFP) continues to grow its global market share. “We are seeing a trend to use more LFP in heavy trucks, mainly in Asia. However, Europe has been focused on NCM battery manufacturing and only a few manufacturers produce LFP cells in Europe,” Phoebe O’Hara, Fastmarkets’ battery raw materials analyst, said. O’Hara said that the shift to LFP is mainly due to price.