Christoph Schmidt

After the significant markdowns that emerged last month, April has brought a series of rollovers to ferrous scrap prices in Germany. The market was treading water and there was little in the way of momentum pushing prices in one direction or another, scrap merchants told EUWID. Negotiations with steel producers were...

The copper price continues to surge. At the beginning of last week, the LME copper price rose again by almost $200 per tonne, triggering further increases for scrap metal prices in Germany. According to news service MBI the wholesale buying-in price for copper scrap increased  in the week commencing 15 April. The price...

The LME copper price maintained the significant gains it made early in April and settled above the $9,200 per tonne mark last week. On the German non-ferrous scrap metal market, copper scrap prices continued to rise sharply as the new working week started on 15 April. According to news service MBI, the wholesale...

Copper prices continue to soar. The LME copper price jumped again at the beginning of April and crossed the $9,000/t mark again for the first time in a year. The rising exchange prices boosted scrap metal prices in Germany as well. According to news service MBI, the wholesale buying-in price for copper scrap rose by...

German waste to energy (wte) plant operator EEW incinerated more waste and considerably increased its revenues in 2023. According to the annual report released by its Chinese parent company Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited (BEHL) last week, EEW Energy from Waste GmbH increased the throughput at its 18 plants in...

The 27 EU member states exported considerably more waste plastic to countries outside of the Union in 2023 in comparison to the previous year. According to preliminary figures from statistics office Eurostat, exports to third countries in 2023 rose by 18 per cent to reach 1.32 million tonnes. However, the baseline year...

The EU’s 27 member states exported much more ferrous scrap to countries outside the Union last year. Preliminary figures from Eurostat show that shipments of iron and steel scrap to third countries increased by 7 per cent in a year-on-year comparison to reach 18.9 million tonnes. 2021 was the only year that EU ferrous...

In 2020, the EU-27 cement industry met around 52 per cent of the thermal energy it required using alternative fuels, first and foremost refuse-derived fuels (RDF). While this is certainly a positive development, there is more, untapped potential in this area. In fact, the German consultancy firm MVW Lechtenberg &...

Since November, steel scrap prices in Germany were on an upward trajectory, more pronounced in some months than in others. But this came to a halt in March, as prices tumbled again for the first time in months. According to traders, steel mills took advantage of the current weak demand on the export market to implement...

The LME copper price continued to soar last week, breaking the $8,000 per tonne mark in mid-March for the first time since the end of July 2023. The upward trend on the exchange led to price increases on the German non-ferrous scrap metals market as well....