What's New in Regional Data Libraries 2025-12

As part of an ongoing review to ensure that aPriori provides customers with comprehensive and accurate data coverage, the RDL 2025-12 release includes the following data enhancement:

Updated Pricing for “Plate” Stocks in the Sheet Metal Process Groups

The 2025-12 RDLs contain updated pricing for Sheet Metal stocks that are 6.00 mm thick or greater. Stocks above this thickness are assumed to be plate stock. In previous releases, they were classified as sheet stocks and therefore aligned with sheet stock pricing.

This increase is due to the use of new data sources and was motivated by the recognition that the cost for plate stocks typically exceeds the cost for sheet stock of the same material. A similar price update was made to plate stocks in the Stock Machining process group in a previous RDL release (2024-12).

The Unit Cost (the cost per mass) for these thicker stock items now is around 24% higher than the cost for thinner gauges of the same material, and it matches the unit cost for plate stocks in the Stock Machining process group.