Scrap Musings for December
Scrap discounts remain exceptionally wide to the Midwest transaction price. Some seasonal tightness may occur, but still affords rolling mills and extruders excellent earnings potential.
Scrap discounts remain exceptionally wide to the Midwest transaction price. Some seasonal tightness may occur, but still affords rolling mills and extruders excellent earnings potential.
November's AMU survey shows broad easing in aluminum lead times across sheet and extrusion products, contrasted by a modest uptick in P1020 that illustrates the split between contract-anchored primary markets and the more dynamic semi-fabricated segment.
AMU spoke with Ingrid Joerg about her experience and her vision for Constellium, the Paris-based aluminum company with operations in Europe, North America and Asia.
The EU's preparatory work on possible aluminum scrap export restrictions provides the starting point for examining why current European scrap flows to the US remain too small to materially affect either region's can sheet market.
Novelis Oswego plant in upstate New York has partly reopened after another fire broke out on Nov. 20.
As Aluminum Dynamics' Mississippi mill ramps up without feedstock from its delayed Benson recycler, UBC scrap availability could tighten heading into 2026.
The company cited, among other things, scrap purchases, tariff mitigations and the ramp-up of its plant in Switzerland.
Expectations for UBC scrap prices remained stable in October. What shifted was the composition of the remainder.
AMU's latest survey of aluminum market participants shows widening gaps in lead times, with extrusions lengthening dramatically.
The company again upwardly revised its full-year adjusted EBITDA outlook, expecting it to improve 20%-25% year over year.