ScrapMonster - Aluminum scrap prices

Eleven US scrap grades priced in four regional columns, then China, India and Europe alongside. That is the whole shape of the ScrapMonster - Aluminum scrap prices tables: one row per grade-market pair, a unit column that tells you which currency you are reading, and a date stamp on every quotation. The US board runs 6063 extrusions, 6061 extrusions, UBC (used beverage cans), MLC clips, clean 356 aluminum wheels, chrome wheels, mixed aluminum turnings, aluminum radiators, aluminum/copper radiators, E.C. aluminum wire and aluminum transformers — each quoted in dollars per pound across North America, East Coast, Midwest and West Coast. Separate boards cover China in CNY per metric tonne, India in rupees per ton and European cuttings in dollars per tonne.

In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets across 159 viable industries, this record scores 5/10 for quality and is one of 13 cataloged aluminum datasets — the secondary-metal corner of that set, where the primary-benchmark feeds stop and remelt economics start.

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Captured during the August 2026 review. Every visible row across all four markets carried the same date stamp, May 20, 2026:

US BOARD · USD per pound                     stamped 2026-05-20
Metal Type                  N.America  E.Coast  Midwest  W.Coast
6063 Extrusions             $1.16      $1.16    $1.16    $1.16
UBC (Used Beverage Cans)    $1.02      —        $1.00    $1.03
Mixed Aluminum Turnings     $0.59   (single-column quote)

CHINA · CNY per metric tonne                 stamped 2026-05-20
6063 Extrusions (China)     22,200.00   change: no change

INDIA · rupees per ton                       stamped 2026-05-20
Aluminum ingots (India)     385,000.00  change: no change

Three things worth noticing. First, the US board is genuinely regional: UBC shows a three-cent spread between Midwest ($1.00) and West Coast ($1.03) inside a single stamp, which is exactly the texture a national average would flatten away. Second, the non-US boards collapse to one Price column plus a Change figure, so any cross-market join happens on Metal Type and Date rather than on position. Third, units travel with the row, never with the table — USD/Lb, CNY/MT, Rupee/ton and USD/tonne coexist in one schema without colliding.

Six fields carry the entire dataset, all verified against live rows during review:

• Metal Type — the scrap grade being priced, from 6063 Extrusions to Mixed Aluminum Turnings.
• North America / East Coast / Midwest / West Coast — the four US regional price columns, in dollars per pound.
• Price — the single-column quote used on the China, India and Europe boards, in local currency units.
• Change — movement versus the previous quotation, shown on the non-US boards.
• Unit — the quoting unit for that row: USD/Lb for US grades, CNY/MT for China, Rupee/ton for India, USD/tonne for Europe.
• Date — the quotation's own stamp, present on every row in every market.

The source interface also plots historical price charts with selectable windows from one week out to the full archive and attaches price calculators on top of the tables. Those derived views sit under additional fields on request rather than in the base dictionary — ask for them alongside your sample and they arrive computed rather than assembled on your side.

Four markets, one consistent grammar:

• Geography: United States with four regional columns (North America, East Coast, Midwest, West Coast), plus China, India and Europe boards.
• Temporal: Quotations arrive as dated snapshots — the board captured during review carried May 20, 2026 stamps across every market — and historical chart windows run from one week to all available history when a series is requested over time.
• Granularity: One row per grade-market pair. A full four-market snapshot holds roughly eighteen rows: about eleven US grades, four Chinese grades, two Indian grades and one European cutting grade.

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Name the grades and markets you want when you request the sample — the four-column US regional board alone, the full four-market set, or a slice filtered to your melt mix. The sample ships first either way; the ongoing feed lands on whatever cadence your pricing work needs.

Secondary-metal data earns its keep in four specific jobs:

• Market researchers — building regional scrap price spreads off the four-column US board, where East Coast versus Midwest deltas are the analysis rather than a rounding error.
• Investors and quant researchers — secondary-metal color for aluminum cost models: scrap quotes beside LME-linked primary benchmarks make the discount to primary a measurable, trackable line instead of folklore.
• Competitive intelligence and product teams — watching scrap-market moves grade by grade, since turnings and wheels can decouple from cans when downstream demand shifts.
• E-commerce operators and recyclers — scrap input costs for alloy buyers and recycling businesses, priced in the actual currency of each sourcing market.

Scrap is the discount side of the aluminum market, so this dataset is most useful pinned next to a primary series rather than read alone. Pair it with the monthly LME-linked benchmark for the primary baseline, with Chinese spot and exchange references for the demand side of the world's largest scrap importer, and with daily OHLC bars when a model needs intra-month texture. Benchmark for the baseline, scrap for the discount, regional columns for the spread — three layers, one industry.

Datadory catalogs 395 daily-cadence datasets among its 1,744 records, and metal pricing is well represented in that group; what makes this one distinct is geography at row level. Most commodity feeds quote one world price. Here, the same grade carries four simultaneous regional quotes, which is what makes spread analysis possible at all.

Methodology note — the dataset runs two table grammars: a five-column US board (grade, four regional prices, unit, date) and single-price boards elsewhere (price, change, unit, date). Normalize on Metal Type plus Date before stacking markets into one frame.

Provenance note — published by ScrapMonster, a recycling-market information publisher whose wider menu spans hundreds of materials including steel, stainless grades, copper, brass and lead. Its second catalog record extends the same treatment to the steel scrap market.

Completeness note — the review captured a complete four-market snapshot with uniform date stamps and no blank grade cells on the US board; historical depth behind the chart interface varies by grade and is confirmed per series on request.

Where to go next — the UBC recycling rate glossary entry covers the demand-side metric behind used beverage can scrap, and the LME aluminum price entry explains the primary benchmark that scrap discounts against.