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Zinc: the net positions at their highest since 2018
Zinc's net positions (the difference between Non commercial buying and selling positions) are at their highest level since 2018 (85,382 lots). The Cot Index is in an extreme overbought phase. What does this extreme market situation suggest to us? It is a situation...
Paper: Metsä Tissue plans to build a factory in the UK
Metsä Tissue, the tissue paper business of the forest industry group Metsä Group, is planning to invest in a new factory in the UK. The plan consists of 240,000 tonnes of tissue paper production capacity, built in several phases over the next decade. The plans are...
Plastics: priority categories to be improved in terms of recyclability
Launched in 2018 as part of the European Strategy for Plastics, with the aim of using at least 10 million tonnes of recycled plastics in the EU by 2025, the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) is now defining more precisely what needs to be done to reach its targets. In...
Rare earth: China increases quota by 20 percent to record levels
China increased its annual rare earth production quotas on Thursday by 20% to the highest level ever recorded. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 2021 rare earth mining production was set at 168,000 tonnes, up from 140,000 tonnes last...