Materials · Manufacturing pulse

What raw materials are doing to your quote.

Producer price indexes for metals, resins, and chemicals plus global spot metals, each with a six-month projection and a quote-drift table for locked prices.

Producer price indexes, year over year

  • Copper and brass mill shapes: 542.853 (Jul 2026), up 52.8% year over year (BLS).
  • Aluminum mill shapes: 407.62 (Jul 2026), up 30.2% year over year (BLS).
  • Steel mill products: 374.203 (Jul 2026), up 22.5% year over year (BLS).
  • Iron and steel: 374.1 (Jul 2026), up 17.6% year over year (BLS).
  • Industrial chemicals: 334.202 (Jul 2026), up 11.8% year over year (BLS).
  • Plastic resins: 292.875 (Jul 2026), up 10.7% year over year (BLS).
  • Paperboard and containers: 283.012 (Jul 2026), up 10.4% year over year (BLS).
  • Lumber and wood: 291.019 (Jul 2026), up 10.1% year over year (BLS).
  • Machinery and equipment: 200.242 (Jul 2026), up 7.4% year over year (BLS).
  • Castings: 296.269 (Jul 2026), up 4% year over year (BLS).
  • Paints and coatings: 422.953 (Jul 2026), up 0.6% year over year (BLS).
  • Fasteners: 329.461 (Jul 2026), down 4% year over year (BLS).
  • Industrial gases: 209.803 (Jul 2026), down 4.5% year over year (BLS).

Global spot metals

  • Global copper: $13,552 per tonne, up 37.8% year over year (IMF via FRED, Jun 2026).
  • Global aluminum: $3,439 per tonne, up 36.1% year over year (IMF via FRED, Jun 2026).
  • Global iron ore: $104 per tonne, up 7.9% year over year (IMF via FRED, Jun 2026).

Why it matters

  • A fixed quote priced a quarter ago has already absorbed the drift in these indexes; rework it against today's numbers before it erodes margin.
  • Six-month projections for each core index use a damped, backtested Holt-Winters model whose out-of-sample accuracy is shown per material.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.