Rare earth market quotation in China: domestic rare earth price maintains stability on the whole amid the latest price of lanthanum oxide, praseodymium oxide and DyFe is unchanged from the previous trading day. The market trading is thin at present.

Molybdenum price in China keeps stable on the whole as short supply of raw materials weakens enterprises’ willingness in transactions. In the meantime, the good performance in steel biddings last week boosted market mentality, coupled with the support of production cost, businesses keep firm quotation opening this week. 

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online: Domestic tungsten raw material market showed upward trend at the end of April. Under the tight expectation for spot goods, the environmental protection inspection no doubt would reduce the production, but also gives certain support to the market. Downstream customers do not accept high quotations while sellers are not willing to sell at low price. After the Labor Day, tungsten price is expected to rise, but limited by weak demand.

Molybdenum concentrate market in China has performed well recently. 40-45% molybdenum ore is concluded 60 tons at RMB 1,610/t; 45-50% molybdenum concentrate is concluded with price of RMB 1,635/t and quantity of 200 tons. Steel mills’ purchasing in large number stimulates ferromolybdenum manufacturers to enquiry. Under the background, molybdenum mines and traders raised their strong rised mentality.

Cemented carbide tools account for the largest proportion in aerospace cutting tools. They are the leading cutters in aerospace manufacturing and have a wide range of applications.

In the morning of January 8th, the national science and technology award conference in 2017 was held in Beijing. Wang Zeshan, a 83 year old Chinese Academy of engineering and professor of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, won the national highest science and Technology Award in 2017. He contributed his 60 years of scientific research to the fire and explosive and made the original achievements beyond the level of foreign countries. The contribution to the research of explosives is called "China's Nobel".

Data from EMVCo shows that 54.6 percent of all cards issued globally by the end of 2017 were EMV-enabled. In addition, the number of EMV payment cards in circulation around the world increased by 1 billion over the previous 12 months — to a total of 7.1 billion.

Tungsten oxide attracts a great deal of attention on the part of scientists and industrialists due to its vast scope of applications for photo- and electrochromic devices, photosensitive materials and biomedicine. For example, it may be used as an X-ray contrast agent for computer tomography - an essential diagnostic tool for internal organ visualisation. 

A new greener, stronger and more durable concrete that is made using the wonder-material graphene could revolutionise the construction industry.

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