How short are our metal raw materials?
Researchers determine supply risk for 62 important elements Whether gallium, chromium or rare earths - many metals are indispensable for modern technology. In the most comprehensive analysis to date, researchers have now determined the criticality of 62 elements where there is a threat of supply bottlenecks or shortages. As it shows, the supply risk is particularly high for metals, which [...]
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Improve the recycling of rare earths in electric motors
09.07.2014/09/17, XNUMX:XNUMX AM | Science | Author: idw | For the recycling of rare earths from permanent magnets in modern and highly efficient electric motors, sustainable recycling concepts must be developed in the coming years. The motors of industrial applications are not yet collected and disposed of separately at the end of their life; the potential for the recovery of the rare earths is thus not increased. This results in [...]
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China's monopoly on rare earths is dwindling
China will largely lose its monopoly on rare earths by the end of this decade. The entry of new providers into the market will mean that the price premium on the world market price for rare earths due to the Chinese monopoly will almost disappear. The world market price for light rare earths will fall significantly over the next three years. With severe [...]
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Recycling the next generation
Press release April 23.4.2014, 70 Around 1970 billion tons of raw materials are extracted worldwide every year. That is twice as much as in the late XNUMXs. The trend is still increasing - and with finite resources. One way of ensuring that enough materials are available for new goods in the future is consistent recycling. In the “Molecular Sorting” project after tomorrow, Fraunhofer researchers are working on the circular economy of the [...]
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Rare earths - Inside January 2014
22.01.2014/2014/XNUMX Düsseldorf, Institute for Rare Earths and Metals - As expected, the hot topics at the beginning of XNUMX in the field of rare earths and metals are the announcement of China's export quotas, China's fight against smog, and China's first steps in the field of recycling and the very critical shortage of germanium. Export quotas for rare [...]
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Company from Fährbrücke gets valuable raw materials from waste
Company from Fährbrücke gets valuable raw materials from waste 07.03.2013/XNUMX/XNUMX - Company develops recycling processes to save raw materials from garbage and recycle them. The management duo of the Loser-Chemie company - Wolfram Palitzsch and Ulrich Loser - will present a process on Thursday at the international recycling conference in Rome with which the company is able to recycle photovoltaic scrap. [...]
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The difficult search for the rare earths
At a meeting in Hamburg, 200 waste experts discussed how the coveted metals can be recycled. Pilot plant planned for 2014. Hamburg / Berlin. Cer, lanthanum, neodymium, ytterbium - hardly anyone was interested in rare earth metals until the 1950s. The last substance from this group, promethium, was not discovered until 1947. Only the electronic age made the [...]
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Rare earth lands in the trash
They are found in mobile devices and wind turbines: 17 chemical elements, the rare earths. World market leader China has restricted exports and pushed up prices. Now the recycling of the valuable raw materials is to be promoted. Real treasures are stored in Germany's households. 80 million old cell phones alone are forgotten in drawers or basements, as are countless computers, monitors, televisions and others
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Rare earths: Breakthrough in recycling?
By Axel Rose Until now, rare earths could not be economically recycled. But at the end of 2012 the world's first recycling plant went into operation in France. German companies are also looking for solutions to overcome raw material shortages. Is this the breakthrough in rare earth recycling? The French company Rhodia has the world's first recycling plant for rare earths in La Rochelle in [...]
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Recycling of rare earths started
Rare earth recycling started 02.01.2013/01/2013 - The French company Rhodia opened the world's first factory in La Rochelle to recycle rare earths on a large scale. This is what Technology Review reports in its current issue 17/XNUMX. For a long time the recycling of the XNUMX elements - from lanthanum for batteries to europium for fluorescent tubes to [...]
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