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Three shops quoted the same 300-piece 6061-T6 housing at $19.40, $24.10 and $31.80 per piece — a 64% spread that looks like an easy decision and is not one. The cheapest was a b...

Week three of the post-holiday session delivered the change buyers were waiting to confirm. National aluminium ingot inventory dropped 14,000 tonnes in a single week and billet ...

Material moved modestly this week — 6061-T6 up 1.86% to $4.94/kg, C36000 brass down 0.58% to $8.55/kg as the late-October copper decline finally arrives in bar stock. Neither nu...

Ten days ago, copper fell 4.25% and zinc 5.14% in a single session, and the practical advice on this page was to re-quote copper and plated parts quickly, before shops marked an...

You sent one drawing to four shops. The quotes came back at $26, $38, $47 and $54 per piece. Nobody is padding and nobody is wrong - they priced different things. This week we a...

For six weeks the input-cost story for machined parts ran in one direction: everything rising, slowly, together. That assumption broke in a single session on September 10. Coppe...

The first week of September 2026 made the input-cost story tangible. SHFE aluminum broke above ¥24,000/t and held; LME three-month aluminum closed the week near $3,318/t aft...

The first session after the National Day holiday has produced a sharp, two-speed material reset: hot-rolled coil up 80-100 yuan per tonne, aluminium A00 down 270-290 yuan, coppe...

China's official manufacturing PMI for August, released today, came in at 49.8-up 0.6 points, with the new-orders sub-index snapping back above 50 to 50.6 (a 2.1-point jump)...

Price Snapshot - September 28, 2026 Compiled from published weekly market assessments covering September 22–26, 2026. LME 3-month prices are 15-minute delayed closes; SHFE...

CNC machining prices in August 2026 are being pulled in two directions. Machine hourly rates remain historically favorable for buyers sourcing from China-$35–50/hr for 3-a...

Grade 1 (GR1, equivalent to Chinese standard TA1) is the softest and most ductile of all titanium grades, with a titanium purity exceeding 99.5%. Its exceptional corrosion resis...