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In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, Vice President for Corporate Development in NEO performance materialsI started to receive calls from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic. In the world of production of industrial materials, NEO is best known for creating scarce lands used in everything, from home appliances to electric vehicles. But these calls did not apply to scarce lands. They were about something much rarer: metal galls.
Neo recycling A dozens of tons Galelia with high purity annually, mainly from the scrap metal of semiconductor chip, at a factory in Ontario, Canada. In North America, this is the only metal manufacturer on an industrial scale, which is used not only in pure energy technologies and military equipment.
China, so far a leading producer, just had just announced Novel gall export control, Apparently in response To reports that the United States government considered restrictions on the sale of advanced semiconductor systems to China.
Suddenly people wanted to talk to Neo. “We talked to almost everyone” interested in the production of Galiczka outside China, Tsianos said Grist.
Because Tsianos began to receive these connections, voltages over 31. Element in the periodic table – as well as 32., German, also used in a number of advanced technologies – increased. In December, China insulted export of both metals to the United States after the Biden administration decision In addition, limit the export of chip.
Now several companies operating in the USA and Canada are considering increasing the production of scarce metals to support satisfy US demand. While Canadian producers of critical minerals can be sweeping in the recent geopolitical Tit-For-Tat Threat to applying tariffsAmerican metal manufacturers could see the support of the recent administration, which required the priority of the federal financing of critical minerals in Day 1 Executive Order. Outside the USA and Canada, the industry observers say that the Chinese Fuel Export ban global interest Making critical mineral supply chains more diverse so that no individual country has a soul over the materials necessary for advanced technology, pure energy.
“This latest round of export prohibitions puts a lot of wind in the sails of critical minerals, not only in the United States, but all over the world” Seaver Wang GRIST said about a breakthrough institute, a research center, focusing on technological solutions of environmental problems.
Gala and German are not exactly home names. But they are in products that are necessary for up-to-date life-and society without fossil fuel. With impressive electrical properties, galum is used in Semiconductor chips They strive for everything from mobile phones to the power converter in electric vehicles to LED lighting displays. Metal is also used for the production of earth magnets for electric vehicles and wind turbines, in gaunt solar films, and sometimes in commercially popular silicone solar photovoltaic cells, where it can support boost efficiency and extend life.