Both electric vehicle and smart mobile phone contain tungsten, such as oscillator in the mobile phone. Let’s see how electric vehicle and smart mobile phone trigger a new gold rush?

Analysis of latest tungsten market from ChinaTungsten Online

Chinese second environmental checks was launched on Monday August 20, which will conduct a comprehensive inspection on “2+26” cities, 11 cities in fen-wei plains and Yangtze River Delta region. The news makes market participants feel more confidence for market outlook.

Rare earth price in Chinese market maintained stability on the whole. Europium oxide price stabilized at RMB 320.00/kg and cerium oxide at RMB 15,000.00/ton while praseodymium neodymium oxide price declined to RMB 323,000.00/ton from RMB 325,000.00/ton.

Chinese molybdenum prices are unchanged from the previous trading day, although new environmental inspection boosts market confidence. The supply and demand is in a stalemate. And affected by off-peak season, market participants are not active in trading. At present, insiders want and see new steel tender and demand. 

Recently, researchers of University of Washington discover that the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride can undergo ferroelectric switching. When two monolayers of WTe2 are stacked into a bilayer, a spontaneous electrical polarization appears, one layer becoming positively charged and the other negatively charged. This polarization can be flipped by applying an electric field. The research result has been published by Nature.

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Tungsten has been successfully 3D printed using a commercial 3D printer, and indeed Philips unit Smit Roentgen (now Dunlee) developed Tungsten 3D printing a few years ago on EOS equipment, using the material in the serial production of tungsten 3D printed parts. But, there have been few studies focusing on understanding the effect of powder and process parameters on tungsten and other high melting point materials.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from ChinaTungsten Online

A production increase in the Chinese ammonium paratungstate market has pressed cargo prices in China, while a lack of demand for tungsten concentrates dragged the upstream market down. Tungsten concentrates buyers retreated to the sidelines after the APT price decline, leading concentrate demand to decline.

Rare earth market quotation in China: domestic rare earth price maintains stability earlier in this week on factories’ low operating rate and declining inquiries. Affected by weak demand and trade war, buyers force prices down. But the environmental protection policy offers supports for production costs. In the short term, rare earth price is expected to stabilize.  

Earlier in this week, the latest price of molybdenum powder and sodium molybdate remains unchanged while molybdenum oxide price declines. Molybdenum prices rising sharply in China in off-peak season increases trading risks, plus lower prices of steel biddings, manufacturers have not enough confidence in supporting ferromolybdenum prices.