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Which grades the desk tracks, and what it calibrates against. Nothing on this page is wired up in the mockup.

The part that makes this yours

Connect your own purchase history

Every number in this mockup is derived from public indices, which means today it tells you what the market is doing — not what you pay. Six to twenty-four months of your actual purchase and sale prices changes that: the discount to LME stops being our assumption and becomes your measured one, and “is this quote fair?” gets answered against your own book instead of a German index.

Disabled in the mockup · date, grade, quantity, price paid, supplier

Example of the CSV format the desk would accept.
date	grade	tonnes	eur_per_t	supplier
2026-07-14	din226	24.0	2085	Stena Recycling
2026-07-28	oldsheet	18.5	1522	Kuusakoski
2026-08-11	din233	31.2	1968	Stena Recycling

Tracked grades

Placeholders taken from your Stena workbook — confirm or replace them.

Alloy 226
DIN 1725 · EN AB-46000 · Al Si9Cu3(Fe)
Priced off MB DIN226A/A380 less 35% scrap discount
€2,118/t
Alloy 231
DIN 1725 · EN AB-47100 · Al Si12Cu1(Fe)
Priced off MB DIN226A × WVM 231/226 less 34% scrap discount
€2,122/t
Alloy 233
DIN 1725 · EN AB-43200 · Al Si10Mg
Priced off MB DIN226A × WVM 233/226 less 34% scrap discount
€1,948/t
Old Sheet Scrap
Wrought · post-consumer rolled sheet
Priced off LME Aluminium High Grade less 44% scrap discount
€1,541/t

Netback assumptions

What we deduct to work out the export alternative. Held constant in the mockup; in the real thing these would track live freight.

Ocean freight, NW Europe → SE Asia: €78/t
Port and handling: €18/t
FX: ECB daily, Wednesday fix
Signal threshold: ±0.8σ against a trailing 2-year spread

Where the data would come from

Checked against the live endpoints on 28 August 2026. Lag is measured, not quoted from a brochure. Nothing here is running yet — this is what we would build on.

Free, and enough to build on

EU aluminium scrap exports by destination
Free·Monthly, ~2 months
Eurostat Comext DS-045409, CN 7602. What EU scrap actually cleared customs at, per destination country — so the EU-vs-Asia comparison is real trade, not an assessment. CC BY 4.0, free to use commercially with attribution.
Finnish and German scrap unit values
Free·Monthly, ~3 months
Same dataset, reported per country. Value divided by quantity gives EUR/tonne — the method Eurostat uses for its own secondary-material price indicator. One basket for all aluminium scrap, so mix moves it as well as price.
Aluminium benchmark price
Free·Monthly average, ~4 weeks
IMF global aluminium price via FRED (PALUMUSDM). LME-based, but published by the IMF, so it carries none of the LME's licensing. Monthly average.
EUR/USD
Free·Same day, ~16:00 CET
ECB euro reference rates. The only daily series here.

Paid — no free equivalent exists

Per-grade prices: Alloy 226 / 231 / 233
Paid·Weekly
Fastmarkets (Metal Bulletin) and WVM. This is the one that decides the shape of the product: without it there is no per-grade view and no weekly cadence, at any price short of a subscription.
LME daily official prices
Paid·Next day
Free to view after registration, but displaying it in a product needs an LME data-distributor licence — a one-off fee of roughly USD 4,000 plus terms. lme.com also blocks automated requests, so scraping it is both blocked and against terms.

On forecasting

We don't do it. Nobody publishes a free forecast for aluminium scrap. The World Bank's Commodity Markets Outlook forecasts primary aluminium as an annual average, twice a year — $3,200/t for 2026, $3,000/t for 2027 in the April edition. Free, citable, and a reasonable planning anchor. It is not a four-week view of any grade, and we won't present it as one.