MRW’s regular reporting of movements in the markets for secondary materials
Summary
Plastic PRN prices fell by £13 per tonne this week. Aggregate glass PRN price is down by £18 per tonne and remelt by £16 per tonne.
White Metal, Aluminium ingots and Ferrous Metal prices are unchanged.
Non-Ferrous metal prices are stable with the exception of a few increases in Nickel & Alloy and Bronze & Gunmetal prices.
Falls are recorded across the High Value Metal prices.
PRNs
| Grade: | £/tonne | change |
| Paper | 0.85-1.00 | - |
| Aluminium | 8-10 | - |
| Steel | 14-18 | ↑1 |
| Plastics | 28-32 | ↓13 |
| Glass:Aggregate | 18-22 | ↓18 |
| Glass: Remelt | 30-32 | ↓16 |
| Wood | 1.50-2.00 | - |
| Mixed Energy | 0.40-0.75 | ↑0.15 |
High Value Metals
| Grade: | £/tonne | change |
| Platinum | 27.78 | ↓0.35 |
| Platinum scrap | 20.26 | ↓0.25 |
| Palladium | 16.44 | ↑0.10 |
| Fine gold | 24.48 | ↓0.11 |
| 9ct gold | 8.91 | ↓0.03 |
| Fine silver | 0.355 | ↓0.002 |
| 925 silver | 0.328 | ↓0.003 |
Non Ferrous Metals
| White metals | £/tonne | change |
| Mixed pewter | 6540 | - |
| 43% tinman’s solder | 4883 | - |
| 39% tinman’s solder | 4460 | - |
| 29% plumber’s solder | 3050 | - |
| Solder joints | 1540 | - |
| 6% mixed type metal | 1140 | - |
| Aluminium ingots | £/tonne | change |
| LM2 | 1450 | - |
| LM4 | 1480 | - |
| LM6 | 1580 | - |
| LM24 | 1480 | - |
| LM25 | 1570 | - |
| LM27 | 1540 | - |
| Standard remelt ingots | 1260 | - |
| Mixed remelts | 1260 | - |
| Brass | £/tonne | change |
| Cuttings | 2100-2300 | - |
| Clean rod swarf | 2000-2100 | ↓50 |
| Unsorted brass scrap | 2000-2200 | - |
| Mixed brass scrap | 2000-2200 | - |
| Bronze & gun metals | £/tonne | change |
| Commercial GM scrap | 2800-3000 | ↑200 |
| GM borings | 2800-2900 | ↑100 |
| Commercial PB scrap | 2900-3100 | ↑100 |
| Brass and copper radiators | 1900-2020 | ↓130 |
| Zinc | £/tonne | change |
| Zinc base scrap | 420-520 | ↑20 |
| New cuttings | 400-450 | ↓100 |
| Lead | £/tonne | change |
| Collected scrap | 950-1050 | ↑40 |
| Batteries | 400-450 | - |
| Nickels and alloys | £/tonne | change |
| 18/8 stainless steel solids | 720-800 | ↑60 |
| 18/8 stainless steel turnings | 320-400 | ↑20 |
| 18/10/3 stainless steel solids | 1000-1200 | ↑40 |
| 18/10/3 stainless steel turnings | 640-780 | ↑20 |
| 17% chrome iron | 190-210 | ↑20 |
| 13% chrome iron | 150-170 | - |
| Pure nickel solids | 7,280 | ↑40 |
| Pure tungsten | 13,580 | - |
| Pure molybdenum | 14,560 | ↑400 |
| Pure cobalt | 17,430 | ↑400 |
| Wrought clean monel | 3900-4100 | ↑40 |
| Monel turnings | 1780-1900 | ↑20 |
| 70/30 cupronickel | 3580-3780 | ↑200 |
| 90/10 cupronickel | 3140-3280 | ↑40 |
| Clean tungsten carbide | 12900-13000 | - |
| 18/4/1 high-speed solids | 980-1060 | - |
| 18/4/1 high-speed turnings | 280-360 | - |
| 6/5/2 high-speed solids | 780-880 | - |
| 6/5/2 high-speed turnings | 190-290 | - |
| Copper | £/tonne | change |
| Dry Bright Wire | 3457-3650 | - |
| Greasy Bright Wire | 3300-3480 | ↓20 |
| Clean flat bus bar | 3340-3450 | ↓50 |
| No1 Burnt wire | 3300-3400 | - |
| No 2 burnt wire | 2950-3370 | ↑70 |
| Cylinders | 3000-3120 | ↓4 |
| Clean and Painted | 3200-3280 | ↓70 |
| New copper tube | 3400-3500 | - |
| Heavy copper | 3250-3380 | ↓20 |
| Braziery copper | 2500-2860 | - |
| Clean pyro cable | 1800-1980 | ↓20 |
| PVC pyro cable | 1500-1600 | - |
| Cables | £/tonne | change |
| Household | 1250-1300 | - |
| Low grade | 650-750 | ↓30 |
| Aluminium low grade | 220-280 | - |
| Aluminium | £-tonne | change |
| Pure cuttings | 710-800 | - |
| Mixed alloy cuttings | 700-790 | ↓10 |
| Clean cast | 700-750 | - |
| Old rolled | 650-680 | - |
| Irony aluminium | 250-300 | - |
| Turnings | 500-550 | - |
| Loose litho | 800-850 | ↑25 |
| Clean aluminium wheels | 850-950 | - |
| alu/copper radiators | 1400-1500 | - |
| Extrusion: clean | 800-890 | - |
| Extrusion: painted | 750-800 | - |
Ferrous Metals
| Ferrous | £/tonne | change |
| Broken foundry cast iron | 102-120 | - |
| Foundry short steel | 112-150 | - |
| Grade 0A heavy structural and plate | 120-140 | - |
| Grade 1 5ft old steel | 102-140 | - |
| Grade 2 2ft old steel | 95-120 | - |
| Grade 4C new production steel bales | 130-150 | - |
| Grade 5C loose light steel scrap (light iron) | 70-90 | - |
| Grade 7B mixed steel turnings | 72-90 | - |
| Grade 8B mixed cuttings | 105-120 | - |
| Grade 9 heavy cast iron (over size) | 90-110 | - |
| Grade 10 light cast iron | 102-120 | - |
| Grade 11 cast iron borings | 90-110 | - |
| Grade 12 a new production heavy steel scrap | 130-150 | - |
| Car engines | 160-190 | - |
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