Can the Silk Route and New Road Plans Counter Trade War in China's Northeastern Ports?
The region around the rust belt is concentrating on attracting more companies from Japan and South Korea to the use of the subsidized sea-to-rail service, a signature of the Belt and Road Initiative Liaoning, whose fourth largest export market is the USA, wants over the port of Dalian establish connections to Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia The ports in the north-east of China [...]
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Battery production in record speed
30.07.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX - With a new coating process, a research team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has achieved the fastest production of electrodes for lithium-ion batteries to date. At the same time, the new process improves the quality of the electrodes and reduces production costs. When manufacturing electrodes for batteries, electrode material is applied as a thin paste in a rectangular pattern onto a sheet of [...]
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12. ABAA - Advanced lithium-ion batteries for automotive applications
Registration deadline: August 11, 2019 International experts meet at the 12th ABAA in Ulm July 31, 2019 Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) The world's leading experts for batteries will meet from 6 to 9 September October in Ulm. At the 12th Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications (ABAA 12) you will be informed about the latest [...]
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Kick-off of the SUSMAGPRO project in Pforzheim
Revolutionizing the recycling of permanent magnets August 1.08.2019, 2019 - In June 2020 the first phase of a four-year EU-funded research and innovation project began with a kick-off event in Pforzheim. The SUSMAGPRO project (full title: Sustainable recovery, recycling and reuse of rare earth magnets in a circular economy) is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon 19 program. XNUMX project partners are involved in this [...]
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Underground membrane plant enables ecological extraction of high-tech elements for the industry
August 1.08.2019, 142 - The Audi Environmental Foundation is funding a research project for the extraction and processing of the high-tech elements indium and germanium at the Technical University of Freiberg. The focus of the project is a newly installed membrane system in the TU research and teaching mine. The plant, which is set up at a depth of XNUMXm, is connected to a leaching section. On this [...]
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Lynas blames the US-Chinese trade war for uncertainties in the rare earth market
Jul 30.07.2019, XNUMX - Australian Lynas Corp (ASX: LYC) reported a decline in sales and production of rare earths on Monday due to ongoing trade tensions between China and the United States. Lynas, the world's largest rare earth mining company outside of China, announced that, in the face of volatile market conditions, production of neodymium and praseodymium will continue […]
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ISE Fact sheet 2019 Rare earths - important resources for high technology
ISE Fact sheet 2019 Rare earths - important resources for high technology High-tech and environmental applications of rare earth elements (rare earths) have dramatically increased in diversity and importance over the past four decades. Many of these applications are highly specific, since the substitutes for the rare earths are inferior or unknown, the rare earths have acquired a technological importance, [...]
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Exports of rare earths declined by 27% in June, which may affect US manufacturing
Jul 25.07.2019, 3.966 - China exported 26,8 tons of rare earths in June, a decrease of XNUMX percent compared to the previous year. This emerges from data released Tuesday by the General Administration of Customs (GAC). Analysts said the reduced exports would put pressure on the US and could affect a wide range of US manufacturing industries [...]
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Rare earth mining on the moon is possible
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes that the extraction of rare earth metals from the surface of the moon will be possible "this century". Rare metals have tremendous uses on earth. They are used in batteries for electric cars, cell phones, military equipment, and fluorescent tubes. In the last twenty years the demand for these rare earths has exploded amid the increasing demand [...]
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Gallium: China is increasing its influence on the miracle metal as Huawei is working on promising applications beyond 5G
China accounts for 95 percent of the world's supply of the soft, bluish metal. Huawei has filed more than 2.000 patents on gallium nitride applications. 23.07.2019/5/XNUMX - A XNUMXG base station can now be pushed into a housing the size of a shoebox. It is thanks to gallium, a soft, bluish metal that makes this possible. The chipsets, the high-frequency [...]
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