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Raw Material Usage & Supply

in the Tantalum Electrolytic Capacitor Industry Market Survey:
1998-2002 Technical-Economic Analysis

This detailed market analysis covers the worldwide consumption of raw materials
for the production of tantalum capacitors. The study features tantalum ore and
its many uses in the tantalum capacitor industry including:

1. Technology overview:
   • Tantalum ore geology
   • Tantalum ore properties
   • Tantalum ore sources (primary and secondary)
   • Tantalum mining and extraction processes
   • Tantalum ore benefaction
   • Capacitor-grade tantalum powder manufacturing (dissolution, filtration, reduction)
   
   

2. World market overview with analyses and forecasts for tantalum ore:
   • Consumption (powder/anode, ingot metal, mill product, TaC, Ta₂O₅/K₂TaF₇)
   • Average price for tantalum ore
   • Average price for capacitor-grade powder
   • Average price for capacitor-grade wire
   • Markups between ore, powder and wire
   • Mining operations (primary and secondary)
   • Forecasts of global consumption of metal powder
   
   

3. Detailed discussion of markets:
   • Trends in average price (powder, ore, wire)
   • Consumption of tantalum powder (SMD case size, CV/g, end-use)
   • Consumption of capacitor-grade powder and wire by world region
   • Consumption of capacitor-grade powder and wire by capacitor production plant by country
   • Sales of capacitor-grade powder
   • Market shares for capacitor-grade powder suppliers
   
   

4. Mining Operations Discussed
   • Gwalia/Greenbushes
   • Pan West/Wodinga
   • Yinchun
   • Cambior
   • Mibra
   • Tanco
   • Thiasarco
   • Malaysia Smelting
   • Paranapanema
   • and many others
   
   

5. Potential New Ore Sources:
   • Bolivia
   • Brazil
   • Burundi
   • Ethiopia
   • Mozambique
   • Rwanda
   • Zaire
   • Zimbabwe
   
   

6. Special topics:
   • ore supply chain (capacitor industry)
   • ore consumption (powder/anode form, metal wire form)
   • improvements in capacitance per gram of powder
   • increase in SMD tantalum chip capacitor volumetric efficiency
   • Chinese powder effects on future pricing
   • vertical integration within the industry
   
   

7. Competitive information is given for suppliers of raw materials for the tantalum capacitor industry:
   • Cabot Performance Materials
   • Showa-Cabot Supermetals
   • HC Stark-Goslar
   • HC Stark-Newton
   • HC Stark-VTech
   • HC Stark-Thailand
   • Ningxia Non-Ferrous Metals
   • Gwalia Mines
   • and many more
   
   

ISBN#0-929717-81-3 (100 Pages, US$995.00, Extra copies US$99.50)

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Updated: 18 December 2000

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