ScrapMonster scrap prices & yard directory

Two products share one record here. The first is a scrap price board: hundreds of commodity grades - stainless solids and turnings from 201 to 330 SS, shredded scrap, benchmarker steel products, and a non-ferrous menu running from copper and brass through catalytic converters - quoted across United States, China, India and Europe markets. The US board splits into East Coast, Midwest and West Coast columns, so one grade row carries up to three regional markets at once. The second product is a directory: scrap yards across the USA and Canada, each entry carrying a business introduction, the materials it accepts, a street address, and contact and directions actions.

The publisher advertises more than 400 US materials on the price side alone, which makes this one of the few steel-industry records where the row grain is grade-region-day rather than country-month. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets across 159 viable industries it sits among 23 cataloged steel datasets and scores 5/10 for quality - the price-board complement to the official production and trade statistics that dominate the rest of that set.

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Captured during the August 2026 review. Units travel with the row, so each board reads in its own currency:

US STAINLESS BOARD · USD per pound            captured Aug 2026 review
Commodity                   North America     Change
304 SS Solid                $0.69             (0)

CHINA BOARD · CNY per metric tonne
Commodity                   Price             Change
316 SS Solid                15,750.00         +0.64%

STEELBENCHMARKER SERIES · USD per metric tonne
Product                     United States     Change    Date
Hot-rolled Band             $978              -5        Jan 29, 2026

WIDER NON-FERROUS BOARD · USD per pound
Commodity                   E.Coast  Midwest  W.Coast
UBC (used beverage cans)    $1.02    $1.00    $1.03

Three things worth noticing. First, the regional columns carry real texture: UBC shows a three-cent spread between the Midwest ($1.00) and the West Coast ($1.03) inside one snapshot, which is precisely what a national average erases. Second, mill products ride alongside scrap - hot-rolled band sits in the same schema as shredded scrap, so a scrap-to-mill-product spread is computable inside one frame rather than stitched across sources. Third, change figures arrive in mixed grammar, absolute in parentheses on the US board and percentages on the China board, which any normalization step has to handle explicitly.

Seven field groups carry the entire record, all verified against live rows during the review:

• Commodity / Metal Type - the scrap grade being priced, from 304 SS Solid to Shredded Scrap.
• Price - the single-column quote on the China, India and Europe boards.
• Change - movement versus the previous quotation, absolute or percentage depending on board.
• Region columns - East Coast, Midwest and West Coast prices on US tables, up to three markets in one row.
• Unit - USD/Lb, USD/MT, CNY/MT or USD/Tonne, declared per row.
• Date - the quotation's own effective date, present on every row.
• Yard listing fields - the directory half: yard name, business introduction, materials accepted, street address, contact and directions actions.

Full definitions with examples appear in the field dictionary below.

• Geography: United States with three regional columns (East Coast, Midwest, West Coast), plus China, India and Europe boards. The yard directory adds USA and Canada coverage down to street address.
• Temporal: Quotations arrive date-stamped - every row states its own effective date, like the Jan 29, 2026 stamp on the hot-rolled band row above - and ongoing deliveries run on whatever cadence your models need.
• Grain: One row per commodity grade per region per day on the price boards; yard listings are point-in-time directory records keyed by company and location.

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Name the grades, regions and markets you want when you request the sample - the three-column US regional board alone, the full five-market set, or a slice filtered to your melt mix, with the yard directory joined on if sourcing analysis is the job. The sample ships first either way; the ongoing feed lands on whatever cadence your pricing work runs at.

Four jobs pay for this record repeatedly:

• Investors and quant researchers - EAF feedstock economics. Electric-arc-furnace mills buy exactly what this board prices, so scrap quotes beside mill product benchmarks turn the scrap-to-HRC spread into a trackable line in a steelmaker margin model.
• Market researchers - regional spread work off the three-column US board, where East Coast versus Midwest deltas are the finding rather than noise, extended by China and India boards for the import-demand side.
• Competitive intelligence and product teams - watching grade-level moves across the recycling chain, where stainless turnings can decouple from solids when downstream demand shifts.
• Operations and sourcing teams - the directory half: locating yards by accepted materials and address for plant siting, reverse logistics routing or supplier discovery.

Data scientists and developer teams get the same record normalized into one schema - units declared per row, dates on every quote - which is what makes it joinable against official statistics without a cleanup project first.

They answer different questions at different speeds. The USGS iron and steel scrap series is annual - the definitive account of material flows once the year closes. Worldsteel crude output arrives monthly at national level. This board is the fast, granular end of the stack: grade-level quotes across five markets, several of them regional rather than national. Stack all three and you get flow accounting, production context and price texture in one industry view - benchmark for the baseline, statistics for structure, scrap boards for the spread.

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

Methodology note - the record runs two table grammars: multi-column US boards (grade, regional prices, unit, date) and single-price boards elsewhere (price, change, unit, date). Normalize on Commodity plus Date before stacking markets into one frame, and split absolute from percentage change figures at ingest.

Provenance note - published by ScrapMonster, a recycling-market information publisher whose wider menu spans hundreds of materials including steel, stainless, copper, brass and lead, alongside marketplace sell offers and buy requests. Its companion record applies the same treatment to the aluminum scrap market, and the UBC row above shows the two boards sharing grade grammar.

Completeness note - the August 2026 review captured complete rows across the stainless, benchmarker and non-ferrous boards with units and dates intact; the exact count of USA versus Canada yard entries is not published upstream and is quantified per delivery on request.

Where to go next - the recycling scrap supply entry defines the demand-side concept behind EAF feedstock buying, and the best steel datasets rail places this board beside the official statistical series it complements.