Aluminium scrap desk
Buy, hold or wait — this week
Week ending 12 Aug 2026
What your four tracked grades are worth today, whether the EU or Asia is bidding higher, and what that means for the tonnes you need to cover.
EU vs Asia · this week
Asia netback is €39/t above EU domestic — your suppliers have leverage.
Averaged across your four grades. The gap is widest on Alloy 226 at +€52/t. Expect quotes to hold firm and discounts to be hard to win this week.
- Ocean freight
- −€78/t
- Port & handling
- −€18/t
- Net gap
- +€39/t
Your grades
90-day trend · estimated fair value, EUR/tonne
| Grade | Fair value | Week | Asia gap | 90 days | Signal & why |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alloy 226DIN 1725 · EN AB-46000 · Al Si9Cu3(Fe) | €2,118/t | −0.5% | +€52 | Sell 0.8σ rich against LME and Asia is €52/t better — buy hand-to-mouth, and move your own process scrap while the bid is there. | |
| Alloy 231DIN 1725 · EN AB-47100 · Al Si12Cu1(Fe) | €2,122/t | −0.5% | +€52 | Hold Spread vs LME is normal (down 0.5%), but Asia netback is €52/t over EU — expect firm quotes and don't chase them. | |
| Alloy 233DIN 1725 · EN AB-43200 · Al Si10Mg | €1,948/t | −0.3% | +€40 | Buy 1.0σ cheap against LME with only €40/t of Asian pull — a good week to cover forward need, not just the next melt. | |
| Old Sheet ScrapWrought · post-consumer rolled sheet | €1,541/t | +1.2% | +€11 | Buy 1.4σ cheap against LME and no export bid behind it — the clearest buying window in the last two years. |
Reference market
Real figures from your Stena workbook
- LME Al cash (USD)
- $3,307/t
- LME Al cash (EUR)
- €2,864/t
- EUR/USD
- 1.1545
- MB DIN226A/A380
- €3,000/t
- LME Al Alloy
- €2,763/t
+1.1% this week
converted at the Wednesday fix
Wednesday fix
low/high midpoint
bid cash
LME, Metal Bulletin and WVM figures are real weekly history taken from the workbook Stena supplies. Fair value, the Asia netback and the signal are modelled for this concept — they are illustrations of what the tool would compute, not prices you can trade on. How this is calculated