[SMM waste aluminum column] Aluminum price consolidation waste aluminum price remains stable

Published: Jul 21, 2020 14:51

SMM7 March 21: aluminum prices fell 70 yuan / ton to 14410 yuan / ton today, aluminum prices relatively stabilized and continued to consolidate at the 14500 yuan / ton mark, the recycled aluminum plant kept the wait-and-see quotation flat. In terms of domestic prices, the quotations of large domestic factories maintain 13350 million 13450 yuan / ton, while those of enterprises using imported waste continue to maintain 13000 million 13200 yuan / ton. In terms of small and medium-sized plants, the price of a recycled aluminum plant in Jiangxi is stable, and the quotation of small and medium-sized factories and traders remains 12850,13,100 yuan / ton. In terms of imports and exports, Japan's demand for ADC12 recovered slightly, and overseas purchases increased, so that the actual overseas quotations continued to rise, and the price of China's exports to Japan rose to 1520,1570 yuan per ton. Import ADC12 quotation rose synchronously, the current import Ningbo ADC12CIF (agreement-free countries) quotation rose to 150001570 US dollars / ton, the mainstream quotation maintained more than 1500 US dollars / ton, European ADC12 quoted price rose to 150000001520 US dollars / ton, but the current domestic and Japanese aluminum alloy ingots rose sharply showed a wait-and-see attitude, the actual transaction is not much. Due to a slight reduction in the number of spot ADC12 arriving in Hong Kong, coupled with rising overseas quotations, domestic traders and sellers offer slightly stronger, due to the narrowing of the price difference between imported aluminum alloy ingots and domestic sources, which is not accepted by many customers, the current market transaction price is relatively chaotic at 12500 to 12700 yuan / ton, the trading volume is less, the wait-and-see mood is strong, and the forward price is quoted at 12600 yuan / ton in September. The current import profit narrowed to 300 million 400 yuan / ton.

July 21 SMM aluminum alloy ADC12 price market

Aluminum prices fell 70 yuan / ton to 14410 yuan / ton today. In terms of the price of waste aluminum, the price of cooked aluminum remains stable. In terms of raw aluminum, the price of raw aluminum has stabilized, but there is feedback from downstream recycled aluminum enterprises that the price of raw aluminum has fallen slightly. In terms of imported scrap aluminum, the current overseas zorba (95 metal volume, 2% copper crushed raw aluminum) Malaysia CIF price has risen to more than US $1000 / ton, and the processing fee after preliminary sorting, cleaning and treatment is about US $100 / ton, which is still about 1500 yuan / ton lower than the domestic raw aluminum tax price. If imports are liberalized, domestic shocks are inevitable, and all parties remain on the sidelines for imported waste aluminum.

Note: import self-withdrawing is the ADC12 cash self-withdrawing price of Ningbo Port.

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