India: Melting scrap prices escalate on supportive steel sentiments

Steel melting scrap prices witnessed a sharp increase across key Indian markets in line with rising sponge iron and semi-finished prices following the increase in bids in SAIL’s pig iron auction. Meanwhile, increasing domestic scrap prices made imports favourable as global scrap (HMS 1:2) of middle east origin is available in the range of $545-555/t CNF Mumbai basis, SteelMint notes.


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