Materials and producer prices

PPI: Nonferrous Mill Shapes

Name: PPI: Nonferrous Mill Shapes, U.S. manufacturing data
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

As of Aug 2026, ppi: nonferrous mill shapes stands at 399.03 index (1982=100) (BLS Producer Price Index), rising over the recent window.

What this measures and why it matters

PPI: Nonferrous Mill Shapes tracks what producers charge for the raw and semi-finished inputs that dominate a manufactured product's bill of materials. Quotes priced off last quarter's material cost erode margin when this index climbs, so estimators watch it to keep pricing current.
The figure comes from BLS Producer Price Index and is reported in index (1982=100). MFG Calcs archives every published value, so the chart and table below show the full recorded history rather than a single snapshot, and they extend automatically as new data lands.

Latest reading: 399.03 index (1982=100) for Aug 2026.
Prior period: 407.48 (Jul 2026), a decline of 8.45.
Compared with a year earlier, ppi: nonferrous mill shapes is up 23.3%.
Across the archived window the high was 414.17 in Jun 2026 and the low was 295.97 in May 2025.
The series has moved down for 2 consecutive periods.
16 observations have been archived so far, and this page deepens automatically each time BLS Producer Price Index publishes a new figure.

Aug 2026: 399.03 index (1982=100)
Jul 2026: 407.48 index (1982=100)
Jun 2026: 414.17 index (1982=100)
May 2026: 408.01 index (1982=100)
Apr 2026: 391.68 index (1982=100)
Mar 2026: 380.27 index (1982=100)
Feb 2026: 377.34 index (1982=100)
Jan 2026: 360.56 index (1982=100)
Dec 2025: 349.70 index (1982=100)
Nov 2025: 340.64 index (1982=100)
Oct 2025: 330.94 index (1982=100)
Sep 2025: 323.43 index (1982=100)
Aug 2025: 323.62 index (1982=100)
Jul 2025: 313.06 index (1982=100)
Jun 2025: 296.37 index (1982=100)
May 2025: 295.97 index (1982=100)

Last reviewed 2026-09-10.