What are the main aluminum scrap grades and their prices?

The US board lists about eleven grades. In the reviewed May 2026 snapshot, 6063 extrusions sat at $1.16 per pound in all four regional columns, UBC cans ranged $1.00–$1.03, and mixed turnings quoted $0.59. The rest cover 6061 extrusions, MLC clips, clean 356 and chrome wheels, radiators, E.C. wire and transformers, with China, India and Europe boards adding four, two and one grades respectively.

Why does the same scrap grade have different prices by region?

Because the US board quotes each grade in four regional columns at once — North America, East Coast, Midwest and West Coast — and freight, mill demand and collection economics differ between them. UBC illustrates it: $1.00 in the Midwest against $1.03 on the West Coast in a single dated snapshot, a three-cent spread a national average would erase.

How is a scrap grade price different from the LME aluminum price?

The LME line is one primary-ingot benchmark in US dollars per tonne — 357 monthly rows reaching July 1996 in the widest retrieved window. Scrap boards instead quote named secondary categories side by side, in dollars per pound across four US regions plus China, India and Europe. Primary sets the ceiling; each grade trades at its own discount to it.

How current are the aluminum scrap quotations?

Every row carries its own date stamp, so the age of any quote is stated on the data rather than inferred — the board reviewed in August 2026 held uniform May 20, 2026 stamps across all four markets. Ongoing deliveries arrive on whatever cadence your pricing work needs: daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.

Can aluminum scrap prices be delivered as a time series rather than a snapshot?

Yes. Ask for a series rather than a board and the rows arrive normalized onto grade, region and quotation date, with units declared per row and provenance attached, ready to stack against primary benchmarks. Historical windows run from one week out to all available history per grade. Request a sample scoped to your markets and it ships first.

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Aluminum scrap prices by grade, delivered as rows

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Which geographies, dates, and grades does the board cover?

The honest caveat sits here too: this record scores 5/10 under Datadory's quality model, the lowest of the thirteen cataloged aluminum datasets. That grade is precisely why delivery normalizes the two table grammars, keeps the unit beside every amount and stamps provenance on each row instead of passing the board through untouched.

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For the structured index behind all of it, the aluminum data hub lists every cataloged record with coverage, granularity and use cases — request a sample cut scoped to your span.

Field dictionary — aluminum scrap grade board

Field	Type	Definition	Example
Change	string	Movement versus the previous quotation, shown on the non-US boards.	no change
Unit	string	Quoting unit riding on the row: USD/Lb for US grades, CNY/MT for China, Rupee/ton for India, USD/tonne for Europe.	USD/Lb
Date	date	The quotation's own stamp, present on every row in every market.	2026-05-20

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