Author: Paul Ploumis21 May 2015 Last updated at 02:40:21 GMT

ALBANY (Scrap Monster): The US H1 scrap price average prices were at $234.83 per long ton, as on 18th May, 2015. The prices remained unchanged when compared with the previous week. This is the fifth consecutive week that the average prices have remained flat.

The average price of US H1 scrap in Pittsburgh, Chicago and Philadelphia was $234.83 per long ton, remaining flat over the week.

The H1 scrap average price in Pittsburg was $234.50 per long ton. The average price remained unchanged when compared with the previous week’s price. In Chicago the prices averaged at $238.50 per long ton. The prices here too held unchanged when matched with the previous week. The average price in Philadelphia was $231.50 per long ton. The prices remained flat when compared with the week before.

The US H1 scrap prices averaged at $232.50 per long ton in New York, Houston and Boston, holding steady from the previous week’s prices.