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23.03.2015 | MARKET
DERA publishes new raw material list
The German Mineral Resources Agency (DERA) today released the new DERA raw material list on global supply concentration. About one third of the mineral raw materials and commercial products investigated by 300 show increased price and delivery risks in this regard.
These include steel refineries such as niobium, vanadium and tungsten, as well as high-tech metals such as rare earths, germanium, platinum metals and tantalum, as well as a number of iron alloys. The findings are particularly important for manufacturing companies to identify weaknesses in the value chain.
Particularly striking is, for example, the supply concentration for platinum and palladium. These metals, which are used in vehicle catalytic converters among others, are more than 75% from South Africa and Russia. An even higher concentration is found in niobium. The primary metal used in the steel industry is being promoted to more than 90% in Brazil. Above all, however, China dominates global mining production with numerous raw materials. For example, China's share of antimony, tungsten and rare earths is around 80 to 85%. Overall, the country is in first place in the mining sector for almost half of all raw materials examined. But not only here, but also in metal production (refinery production), China takes the leading position in 22's 25 selected raw materials, including numerous metals required for future technologies such as gallium, germanium or indium. China is also the largest net exporter of a large number of commercial products studied in the study. The country is the world's largest exporter of 32's 79 potentially critical trading products, such as magnesium, rare earth, bismuth and tungsten intermediates.
DERA analyzes show that supply concentration on world commodity markets remains very high and has barely narrowed for most raw materials in the last two years since the first DERA raw material list was released. These commodity-related risks can impact along the entire value chain. Even if commodity prices have declined significantly, the price and delivery risks remain.
The DERA raw materials list 2014 is available on DERA's website at the following link: http://www.deutsche-rohstoffagentur.de
Source: DERA
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