Cost Only Half of China's, Zero Pollution? Evaluation of Japan's Hot Metallurgy Rare Earth Recycling Technology: Cost and Environmental Analysis

Foreign media: To catch up with China in the rare earth industry? The West still has a long way to go

US President Trump recently signed a rare earth agreement with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House. On October 28, when Trump visited Japan, the US and Japan also signed a rare earth cooperation framework agreement. US media such as Bloomberg and Singapore's business news website "The Edge Singapore…

The US-Australia rare earth agreement sidesteps the real problems（Ⅱ）

The more realistic issue lies in industrial chain coordination. The rare earth supply chain not only includes mining and smelting but also involves magnetic material manufacturing, precision processing, and terminal applications. Australia only holds the upstream resources and lacks the midstream and downstream supporting links. …

The US-Australia rare earth agreement sidesteps the real problems

The US and Australia announced on the 20th in Washington that they had signed a "Critical Minerals Supply Chain Security Framework Agreement", claiming that they would each invest 1 billion US dollars within the next six months in rare earth and critical mineral mining and processing projects, with the goal of establish…

Heavy rare earths: The "heart key" of new energy power

Take neodymium iron boron magnets as an example. This material, known as the "King of Permanent Magnets", is a core component of the drive motors in new energy vehicles, wind turbines, and industrial robots. A high-end new energy vehicle's drive motor requires 1-2 kilograms of neodymium iron boron magnets. Among them, o…

Dual-track resonance: New energy + military industry, the "blazing engine" for the explosive growth of rare earth demand

New Energy Sector: From Electric Vehicles to Energy Storage, Rare Earths Become the "Efficiency Driver" The global penetration rate of new energy vehicles has exceeded 20%, and solid-state batteries with high energy density and fast charging performance are moving from the laboratory to mass production. Meanwhile, rare …

Plans for £250 million rare earth refinery scrapped

It has been reported that rare earth exploration and development company Pensana has abandoned plans to build a rare earth oxide separation facility at Saltend near Hull in the Humber Freeport.The project, which was set to cost £250 million, was originally expected to provide 450 jobs during construction and 150 during operation.…

The "performance code" of advanced manufacturing processes: Rare earths make transistors "more energy-efficient and faster"

When the manufacturing process enters the sub-7-nanometer range, the thickness of the gate dielectric layer of transistors is less than 5 nanometers - equivalent to 30 atoms lined up side by side. At this point, the traditional silicon dioxide (SiO₂) dielectric will leak due to the "tunneling effect", wasting power lik…

The "Precision Scalpel" for Wafer Processing: Rare Earths Make "Minimally Invasive Surgery" for Semiconductors Possible

If rare earth magnets are the "muscles" of semiconductor equipment, then rare earth compounds are the "scalpels" in the processing stage. In the "transformation" of a wafer from a crude silicon wafer to a chip, every step of "carving" relies on the "precise operation" of rare eart…

The "muscle fibers" of lithography machines: Rare earth magnets support nanometer-level precision

The "crown jewel" of semiconductor equipment, the lithography machine, is often hailed as the "pearl on the crown of human industry." However, few people know that its "pearl" status is entirely supported by rare earth magnets. EUV lithography machines require the wafer stage to move at several meter…