European ammonium paratungstate  prices (APT prices) have edged up after almost two months of stability between USD345-355mtu in warehouse Rotterdam.

Whilst China export prices have been increasing steadily since the beginning of April due to rising raw material costs, figures in Europe have held flat as consumers showed little appetite to procure material from the spot market. Late last week that changed and since Thursday a flurry of buying activity from both the inter-trade and consumer markets has helped mainstream prices lift to between USD360-370mtu in warehouse Rotterdam as of Wednesday.

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Tungsten carbide powder consumers inactive in making deals.

The  tungsten carbide powder prices kept stable in the recent days, but as the downstream customers were inactive in making deals, the market was inactive.

It is expected that the tungsten carbide powder market will be quite in a short time. An end-user  whose consumption for tungsten carbide powder is around 15 tons per month, noted that the tungsten carbide powder prices are quite stable.

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European ferro-tungsten figures continue to strengthen on supply concerns.

The low levels of ferro-tungsten stock being held in Rotterdam have been compounded by the news that the large Vietnamese producer will be cutting its production output by almost half in 2013.

This has been caused by a knock on effect from last month’s announcement that the plant had suffered from a serious electrical fault, and with future supply of material now in doubt, stockholders of material in Europe were quick to raise offers from USD46.50-47.50kg W in warehouse Rotterdam during the middle of last week, to between USD47.50-48.50kg W in warehouse Rotterdam on Tuesday. 

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China ammonium paratungstate  prices (APT) hold firm with few buying activities.

China ammonium paratungstate market (APT)  continues to be inactive owing to the few buying activities. The tungsten concentrate prices keep stable, while as the current APT prices hover at the production cost, the APT suppliers hold offers firm or raise offers further.

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In last year, China's tungsten carbide production was 23,500 tons, the carbide industry sales income is 20.9 billion Yuan, tungsten carbide export volume is nearly 5,000 tons，export is more than 360 million U.S. dollars. Tungsten carbide deep-processing products production reached 6,600 tons, it accounts for 1/3 of the alloy total output. The tungsten carbide product variety is basically complete, and specification is more than 40,000, production and variety can meet the basic needs in the field of China’s economy.

With the rapid expansion of China's automobile industry, the demand for auto parts processing cutting tools is increasing; China’s steel, transportation, construction and other fields are also increasingly strong demand for tungsten carbide. In the foreign Carbide MNCs' Strategic picture, the Chinese market has been quietly from a supporting role to the protagonist. To the end of "12th Five-Year Plan", China tungsten carbide production reached 30,000 tons, sales income reached 30 billion Yuan, and deep processing products accounted for more than 40% of the total of the tungsten carbide. Compared to the "11th Five-Year Plan", exports will double, and strive to surpass 1 billion U.S. dollars. Tungsten carbide will develop in the direction of intensive processing and a complete set of tools; develop in the direction of ultra-fine, ultra-thick and coating composite structure; develop in the direction of recycling economy, energy saving and environmental protection; and develop in the direction of precision, miniaturization.

Tungsten carbide is referred to as "the dental industry with high hardness, toughness and wear resistance, is widely used in metallurgy, machinery, geology, coal, petroleum, chemical, electronics, textile and defense industry and other fields. In recent years, China Carbide market is continually expanding, but the level of quality control has been marking time.

In the next few years, China tungsten carbide product testing will usher in the era of fully automated, which will accelerate and promote the optimization and upgrading of the carbide industry in China. The detection process is fully automated detection, thus eliminating the testing personnel, testing personnel mood swings and other factors on the detection consistency, can ensure product quality and greatly reduce the rate of return of the product, improve product quality. The new testing equipment has many potential applications manufacturers in the industry, once widely used, it will promote the industry to raise the overall level of quality control.


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Tool market demand around the world will continue to grow. According to reports, the tool market demand around the world is growing. Among them, it's stable growth in Europe, North America, particularly in Eastern Europe; slight recovery in the Asian market, the market has great potential, significant growth market in Latin America, particularly Mexico. (In the past year, the reason why the tool market demand growth is slow, mainly because of increased tool life, then there is the request for the entire manufacturing process, replacing the many machines and tools as well as an increase in the application of multi-function tool, alternative many simple single-function tool.) Experts have predicted that in the future users will be more emphasis on the production the factory tool of research and development, not only in materials and surface coating technology, but also in the product and its production process of the tool . The expert said that the focus on production practices will help the tool manufacturer to increase market competitiveness in the field in which they are familiar.


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China powder metallurgy research and development of new material since 2010 was a major breakthrough, the National Science and Technology Support Program - "water-soluble Preparation of Nano tungsten carbide-cobalt composite powder key project equipment development and industrialization projects" has been through the acceptance, China's ultra-fine grain cemented carbide high-end tools dependence on imports was broken.

"Nano tungsten carbide-cobalt composite powder is a high-performance carbide strengthen the coating and the surface of the ultrafine structures key material, in particular under conditions suitable for high speed, high temperature, high pressure, heavy-duty, corrosion medium. Mainly used in the manufacture of high toughness, high wear resistance carbide cutting tools, PCB micro-cobalt, high-precision abrasive microdissection knife, scalpel.

At present, China's high-performance PCB micro cobalt, automobile manufacturing, precision machining with ultra-fine grain cemented carbide (grain size <= 0.4) tool largely depend on imports. By process technology and key equipment restrictions, the traditional method of high production costs, product quality is not easy to control, can not achieve the scale of production, severely restricted the carbide industry, enhance core competitiveness. Powder metallurgy materials and major equipment manufacturing capacity has leapt to a new level, breaking the ultra-fine grain tungsten carbide in China high-end tools dependence on imports.


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Rwandan origin tungsten concentrate export figures firm.

Offering prices of Rwandan origin tungsten concentrate have strengthened by almost USD10mtu since the middle of April, with mainstream numbers of tungsten concentrate 50%min WO₃ between USD275-285mtu CIF Asia on Thursday.

For higher grade tungsten concentrate 60%min WO₃, exporters have quoted marginally above USD290mtu CIF Asia, and claim that the string demand from buyers in China should translate into higher concluded transaction prices.

A European based exporter of Rwandan origin tungsten concentrate, who is typically shipping between 2-3 containers out of Dar es.

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China tungsten concentrate prices remain stable.

In the recent days, the tungsten concentrate prices remained stable, and most of the tungsten concentrate market participants still hold wait-and-see attitudes towards the future market.

A tungsten concentrate factory noted that they make offers for wolframite 55% at RMB130,000-131,000t USD322-325mtu this week, which keep stable.

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