Recover rare earth from old fluorescent tubes
By Wolfgang Kempkens They are hazardous waste, discarded fluorescent tubes. They contain rare valuable substances, including the coveted rare earths. Now researchers at TU Freiberg have developed a process that recovers these raw materials - and is profitable. Rare earths live up to their name, at least when it comes to “rare”. Their value is high and easy to influence. China, [...]
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Freiberg mining rare earths from waste of phosphorus
by Heiko Weckbrodt on December 4, 2014 The process is now being used in the Narva lamp company Freiberg, December 4, 2014: Every day in Germany, strategically important raw materials such as "rare earths" worth several thousand euros are buried in underground landfills as hazardous waste. Chemists at the Bergakademie Freiberg have now developed a technology together with industrial partners in order to [...]
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Chile's President Michelle Bachelet; Guest of honor at the German-Chilean Raw Materials Forum of the AHK Chile in Berlin
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Guest of Honor at the German-Chilean Raw Materials Forum of the AHK Chile in Berlin The President of the AHK Chile, Juan Pablo Hess, and General Manager Cornelia Sonnenberg were participants in the official government delegation The strategic topics of the German-Chilean Chamber of Commerce - Mining and Raw Materials, Energy, Innovation and technology transfer as well as vocational education and training - were the focus of the two [...]
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"Raw materials will become scarce again"
Raw material security is an important topic at the 14th Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business. Manuela Kasper-Claridge in conversation with the chairman of the Federation of German Industries, Ulrich Grillo. DW: Why is the subject of raw materials so important for Southeast Asia? Ulrich Grillo: Of course, Southeast Asia has many raw materials and raw materials are becoming increasingly scarce, even if the supply is currently good. [...]
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OIL, ELECTRICITY AND CO. The prices continue to fall
Dusseldorf. Use raw materials sparingly? In many companies there is still room for improvement. "Raw materials are currently not the most important issue for companies," says Lars-Peter Häfele from the Inverto purchasing consultancy. Accordingly, not all opportunities for savings would be taken. This is the result of Inverto's raw material survey in collaboration with Handelsblatt. 80 managing directors and [...]
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Rare earths: Why does China buy in bulk?
Author: Clemens Schmale China is the world's largest producer of rare earths and is now buying huge amounts of the metals from itself. What's behind it? The Chinese have a 90% share of the rare earths market. So they do not lack the metals that are absolutely necessary for production in the technology sector. Nevertheless […]
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ROUNDUP: WTO rejects China's appeal in the dispute over rare earths
GENEVA / BRUSSELS (dpa-AFX) - China has again suffered a defeat in the dispute over its export restrictions for rare earths at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO arbitration tribunal on Thursday rejected China's appeal against its earlier decision that Beijing violated the rules of free world trade with export quotas for rare earths. Beijing did not have [...]
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EU: list of critical raw materials updated
The European Commission updated the list from 2011 and added six raw materials. Borates, chromium, coking coal, magnesite, phosphate rock and silicon are the names of the critical raw materials that the European Commission has included in its updated list. Tantalum was removed from the 2011 list due to a lower supply risk. The other raw materials on the list [...]
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Rare earth: China wants to operate the tax screw
Erwin Matula - May 22, 2014 The WTO ruling against China regarding rare earths has repercussions. Two years ago, the European Union, the US and Japan complained that China had introduced export quotas on rare earths and some other raw materials. This made it more difficult for other countries to have access to the raw materials and gave China a competitive edge. [...]
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A hard to break monopoly
BY Felix Lee MAY 13, 2014 AT 13:57 PM The West's dependence on China is difficult to reduce in some areas. This is clearly visible in the example of rare earths: China announced in 2011 that it would significantly reduce exports of raw materials. The People's Republic, which at the time made up more than 95 percent of the global demand for [...]
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