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Turkish Scrap Cooling After The May Rally
After the rise recorded in the first half of May, the Turkish imported ferrous scrap market is showing increasingly evident signs of weakening. The bullish push that had brought HMS I/II 80:20 to elevated levels seems to have lost intensity, restrained by a...
Aluminium Premiums In Asia: Stability Ahead Of MJP, But China Remains Weak
The Asian aluminium premiums market went through the week to Thursday May 21 in a condition of substantial stability, but with increasingly evident differences among the main regional areas. In Japan, South Korea and Indonesia premiums remained mostly unchanged,...
Chinese Critical Metals: Germanium Exports At Zero And Gallium Almost Stopped
Chinese exports of gallium and germanium collapsed in April 2026, confirming how much the market for critical metals is becoming increasingly conditioned by export controls, physical scarcity and geopolitical tensions. The most relevant figure concerns germanium:...
Indonesia, Energy Contested At Weda Bay: Aluminium Advances And Nickel Pig Iron Slows
The industrial park of Weda Bay, in Indonesia, is becoming the symbol of an increasingly evident transformation in the Asian geography of metals. In an area born and grown as one of the most important hubs in the world for nickel, the rapid expansion of aluminium...