London Metals Exchange (LME) offers a range of futures and options contracts for non-ferrous & minor metals, steel and plastics. The Exchange provides a transparent forum for all trading activity and as a result helps to discover what the price of material will be months and years ahead. This helps the physical industry to plan forward in a world subject to often severe and rapid price movements. Such is the liquidity at the Exchange that the prices are discovered at the LME are recognised and relied upon by industry throughout the world.