Scrap Pricing Transparency in India’s Secondary Metals Sector

Scrap pricing in India’s secondary metals sector has undergone a fundamental shift — from opaque, information-asymmetric informal rates to an increasingly transparent, grade-linked, market-referenced pricing environment. This post documents the transformation across lead, steel, and copper: what the pricing environment looked like in the 2000s, what has changed and why, and what the NEXT phase […]