China Nonferrous Metals Industry Annual Conference 2019 Please find attached the agenda and registration form for the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Annual Conference 2019, which will take place from November 22nd to 23rd, 2019 in Shanghai, China. Early Bird: Registrations by October 18, 2019, USD 998 for each participant. We hereby invite you / your company [...]
ISE - Batteriemetalle News September 2019 After years of soaring cobalt prices shortly before reaching US $ 100.000 per ton, the price curve took a turn in March of last year. Glencore's decision last month to shut down the world's largest cobalt mine brought new life to the market, but so far the [...]
The trade war is bypassing the commodities sector A new report from BMO Global Commodities Research says that all Chinese trade is currently in trouble - on a global scale, mining companies have little to worry about. US trade is in free fall and total Chinese imports are likely to have declined 5% year over year, [...]
The new generation of iPhones is made up of 25% recycled rare earth elements, according to Apple Tech giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has announced that it will use 100% recycled rare earth elements in the new iPhones, which are used in all major Components are included. As in the environmental reports for the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and [...]
Lithium Market Report September 2019 Lithium is the most coveted star in today's metal sky. Due to a worldwide rethinking towards electromobility, the demand for lithium in almost all of its forms has increased. Nevertheless, the lithium prices are stagnating or declining. The price pressure on lithium was caused by an overproduction by Chinese producers, which is currently a [...]
In the US, Fortune 500 companies are growing concerned about the impact of Donald Trump's trade strategy against China, according to the US Chamber of Commerce. Forty-three percent of Fortune 500 companies - up from 30 percent earlier this year - have expressed concern over the US president's tariff dispute with China. The tariffs could be at a point where [...]
The US must give up the last 20 percent of demands on China to sign a trade war deal. This is what a leading Chinese expert says. Jin Canrong, professor of international relations at Renmin University of China in Beijing, says China had already approved 80 percent of an agreement in May. Between 60 and [...]
Ramu sends the nickel price to a five-year high in the middle of the narrowest market in ten years. Expectations of booming demand for electric vehicles have compounded the longer-term bull case for nickel, and a supply crisis following the threat of a major Asian supplier closing down only fueled the fire on Friday. Nickel has increased by 5% since the beginning of the year and [...]
Trump levies another 5% tariff on Chinese goods Aug 27.08.2019, 5 - WASHINGTON / BEIJING - US President Donald Trump hit back on a new round of Chinese tariffs on Friday by adding an additional 550% tariff to around $ XNUMX billion in targeted Chinese goods in the recent escalation of the trade war through the two largest economies in the world [...]
“We have to make the raw material upstream chains more sustainable for all technologies” The new study by e-mobil BW for the raw material requirements of battery-electric and fuel-cell electric vehicles has shown that the elements lithium, cobalt, platinum, nickel, the rare earth metals and copper due to their expected Significance for electric vehicles and their limited availability and substitutability should be classified as critical. Only with available, [...]