Australia's King Island Scheelite Limited stated that it has obtained a large amount of debt financing to promote the reconstruction of its Dolphin tungsten project near Grassy. Northwest tycoon Dale Elphinstone and other investors will invest $33 million for it to put the long-awaited mining project into production.

SPEE3D, an additive manufacturing technology group, announced a breakthrough process that allowed it to provide for the first time 3D printed stainless steel parts containing molybdenum and nickel.

Researchers from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom designed Escherichia coli to use metal tungsten and hydrogen (H₂) to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into formic acid, thereby capturing carbon dioxide (CO₂). The study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, raised the possibility of converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into renewable fuels.

Tungsten flux is a kind of coarse particle made by breaking tungsten bars instead of sintered tungsten powder with purity of over 99.9%. There are others name for it, such as tungsten accelerator, tungsten chip accelerator, tungsten particles and tungsten granule.