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How the West Secures Critical Minerals
Ursula von der Leyen and Justin Trudeau During her trip to the USA and Canada, the security of raw materials is high on the agenda for the EU Commission President.…
Commodities: Outlook for 2023
Commodity Outlook The past year has been a turbulent one for base metals. (Photo: IMAGO) Frankfurt The year 2022 was not only a difficult year for the stock markets. It…
Interest in hydrogen, gas, cobalt – Scholz and Habeck are negotiating in Canada
Chancellor Scholz The chancellor has taken up the cause of strengthening cooperation between democracies in order to be able to compete with autocracies such as China and Russia. (Photo: dpa)…
How Apple wants to create value from e-waste
austin The old iPhones roll up a ramp. The robot Daisy grabs her with one arm and clamps her in a holder. This is the first of many steps to…
Congo & Zambia want supply chain in Africa
Zurich At the threshold of electromobility, an African country is moving into the focus of car manufacturers: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the world’s largest producer of…
How Apple wants to create value from e-waste
austin The old iPhones roll up a ramp. The robot Daisy grabs her with one arm and clamps her in a holder. This is the first of many steps to…
Deutsche Bank advises strategic raw material reserves
Aluminum ingot from Russia Germany is also dependent on imports from Russia and China for many raw metals. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt, Zurich According to Deutsche Bank, Germany and other European…
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the “undesirable” person – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
there have always been good reasons to doubt the success of the Istanbul “peace talks” between Russia and Ukraine. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin is declaring the “planned” progress of…
How the countries use the raw materials
Copper mine in Chile As the world’s largest copper producer, the country should benefit from a boom in demand for battery metals. (Photo: Reuters) Zurich, Santiago, Johannesburg, New Delhi The…
Battery manufacturer builds giga factory in Germany
Northvolt Northvolt’s first factory in Sweden. Dusseldorf In the tranquil heath, about an hour and a half from Hamburg, power storage for German electric cars will soon be built. The…
Battery manufacturer builds giga factory in Germany
Northvolt Northvolt’s first factory in Sweden. Dusseldorf In the tranquil heath, about an hour and a half from Hamburg, power storage for German electric cars will soon be built. The…
How record prices for metals threaten to slow down the energy transition
Berlin, Zurich Gas, coal and oil prices have rallied like never before. Due to the efforts for more climate protection, some high energy prices are likely to become permanent. But…
How record prices for metals threaten to slow down the energy transition
Berlin, Zurich Gas, coal and oil prices have rallied like never before. Due to the efforts for more climate protection, some high energy prices are likely to become permanent. But…
Experts expect prices to rise in 2022
Battery metals Electric cars, power lines and wind farms require large amounts of metals. Experts have identified four major beneficiaries: copper, nickel, lithium and cobalt. (Photo: Bloomberg) Zurich It was…
Auto Industry: Will Cobalt Shortage As Bad As Chip Crisis? There is a threat of new bottlenecks in battery metals
The auto industry is suffering from the lack of chips. It should be overcome in 2022. But the transformation to electromobility harbors new risks. .source site
Battery Metals: Will Cobalt Shortage As Bad As Chip Crisis?
The auto industry is suffering from the lack of chips. But the transformation to electromobility harbors new risks. There is a threat of new bottlenecks in battery metals. .source site