China Aluminum Market Price Summary March 9 2010

WorldScrap- Due to the lack of liquidity in the market, the London Metal Exchange (LME) future aluminum priced down from the highest price on the 8th March. The last price ended with a little higher at 2233 points, up by 8 points or by 0.36%. On Monday, Stockpiles of LME copper inventories fell by 6,225 [...]

Global copper prices recover on China move

According to www.commodityonline.com  - Global copper prices recovered in European trade Friday as China signaled it would maintain its economic stimulus, supporting hopes that demand from the world’s top consumer of industrial metals would remain firm.
However, trading was slow ahead of crucial U.S. payrolls data expected to show a big loss of jobs due to [...]

China Scrap Metal Prices in USD Per Ton Mar 2

02/03/10 Chinese Spot Prices for scrap metals – prices are in USD per ton
Motor copper $7,329
#1 Bare Bright $7,871
Shred Taint $1,843
Shred Tense $1,872
#1 Nickel $21,571
Shred Zinc $1,979
304 SS Sabot (18-8) $1,886
Lead $1,914
HMS $360
AOO Al Ingot $2,286
Shred SS (Ni = 7.8~8.0%) $1,957
Steel-making Pig Iron $399
Casting Pig Iron $421

China Scrap Prices Feb 24 2010

24/02/10 Chinese Spot Prices for scrap metals – prices are in United States Dollars per Ton
Motor copper $7,143
#1 Bare Bright $7,686
Shred Taint $1,857
Shred Tense $1,886
#1 Nickel $21,786
Shred Zinc $1,992
304 SS Sabot (18-8) $1,843
Lead $1,914
HMS $360
AOO Al Ingot $2,300
Shred SS (Ni = 7.8~8.0%) $1,914
Steel-making Pig Iron $399
Casting Pig Iron $421
Source www.worldscrap.com

China Scrap Aluminium Market Jan 22

WorldScrap (www.worldscrap.com )- LME aluminium futures closed down $21 at $2,240 yesterday as the inventories added 18,525 tons, bringing the total levels of 4,640,750 tons. SHFE aluminium contract 1004 ended at 17,060RMB/T, with loses of 340RMB/T. Range ran from 16,930-17,370RMB/T and position reduced 8,300 hands, with rising trade volume. The price in spot market: Changjiang [...]

Chinese Scrap Metal Recycling Prices Jan 22

22/01/10 Chinese Spot Prices for various scrap metals. Prices are in USD per ton.
Motor copper $7,329
#1 Bare Bright $7,871
Shred Taint $1,857
Shred Tense $1,900
#1 Nickel $20,286
Shred Zinc $2,271
304 SS Sabot (18-8) $1,829
Lead $2,029
HMS $347
AOO Al Ingot $2,421
Shred SS
(Ni = 7.8~8.0%)
$1,900
Steel-making Pig Iron $386
Casting Pig Iron $423
Courtesy www.worldscrap.com

Chinese Metal Market Summary Sept 11

Steel and iron ore imports decline in August in China
According to the report of China’s Custom, Chinese steel and iron ore imports dropped comparing to July. However, the total steel and iron ore imports from January to August increased by volume compared with the same period of 2008.
Steel import in August was 1.59 million tons, [...]

Updated Scrap and Base Metal Prices for China Page

We have completely updated our website page dedictaed to Chinese scrap metal prices, base metal prices and other metal prices in China.  The web page is http://scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/china
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China Main Area Weekly Steel Scrap Summary Feb 1 – 6

China Main Area Weekly Summary-Steel Scrap Recycling Prices. Feb.1-Feb.6, 2009.  Prices below are shown feb 1 price, then feb 6 price and then the price change (+/-).
Chongqing 2650 2650 + 0
Zhangjiagang 2620 2710 +90
Tangshan 2350 2450 +100
Laiwu 2708 2708 0
Loudi 2650 2800 +150
Lingyuan 2700 2800 +100
Beijing 2400 2600 +200
Jinan 2650  2650 0
Hefei 2600 2700 +100
Jiangyin [...]

Review and Prospect of China Steel Scrap Market

Jan.14 MetalBiz–Steel scrap suffered the extraordinary period in the year of 2008.
In the first half of the year, along with the stable growth of steel products prices and the soaring of raw material prices, steel scrap market continued its upward trend of 2007, the price kept surging, successively hit record highs. Then in the latter [...]