Copper Scrap Price Tracker Launched Amid Record Copper Price Volatility

Epignosis Insights has launched a weekly Global Copper Scrap Price Tracker to provide buyers and sellers of copper scrap with a reliable, up-to-date source for copper scrap prices and recycled copper market analysis across major global markets. The tracker combines verified data from government commodity reports, industry association benchmarks, company disclosures, consulting-firm forecasts, and news reporting.

The copper scrap price tracker is essential due to the high volatility in copper prices, which have set records this year. In late August, COMEX copper futures reached an intraday high of $6.72 per pound, but then fell 4.7% on September 10 after reports that a planned U.S. tariff on refined copper imports was losing momentum.

The tracker covers various copper scrap grades, including bare bright copper wire, No. 1 copper, and No. 2 copper, which typically move with refined copper prices but at a discount and with a lag. This lag has widened in 2026 as tariff headlines move the refined market by several percentage points within hours.

Epignosis Insights' Global Copper Scrap Price Tracker is built for scrap yard operators, metal recyclers, procurement teams at brass mills and wire-rod producers, OEM sustainability and supply-chain teams, investors, and analysts following copper, mining, and recycling equities. The tracker includes a weekly price-trend chart, regional benchmark comparison table, supply-demand visualizations, and a short FAQ section.