Steel prices, which had been on an upward trajectory since the COVID-19 pandemic, started softening late in the third quarter of 2021 as steel supply increased and lead times shortened. Ferrous scrap ...

Few used cars appreciate in value from year to year, but junkers lately have proven an exception to that rule. Growing international demand for steel and other metals has sent scrap markets soaring ...

Higher scrap prices and more pleasant weather seem to have combined to bring about a healthier flow of ferrous scrap—thus changing the balance and allowing mills and brokers to pay about $40 per ton ...

MARIETTA – As the U.S. dollar has gained strength in 2015, scrap metal value has dropped drastically from last year’s export prices. Wares like plate and structural scrap were sold at almost three ...

NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - The price of scrap metal, a key raw material for some steelmakers, has hit record highs and manufacturers are likely to impose steep surcharges to cover the extra costs, ...

For most of his adult life, Andre Dennis sold parts at his father’s auto salvage yard. Big D Auto Wrecking in Gardena had been the family business for 46 years. But when things started to slow a few ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - A Missoula recycling center says the rising demand for scrap metal is driving up the price of junked cars, and criminals are getting into the junk car business in numbers. Axmen ...

One of the most lowly looking businessmen in the U. S. is the junkman with his knobby old horse and ramshackle wagon, collecting old rags, old bottles, bones and scrap iron. Yet when Junkman Bill ...

DETROIT – It's hard to imagine how a trade war could turn into a scrap yard fight here. Yet China is the largest consumer of scrap commodities. And Michigan is a major exporter, generating ...