Newfield / Boyertown / Latrobe / Gurnee / Newton / Robesonia / New York / St. Honoré / Goslar / London / Brussels / /
Company
Austria Brazil Treibacher Chemische Werke AG / Chs / Gwalia Consolidated Ltd. / Mineracao Catalao de Goias S.A. / Roskill Information Services Ltd. / Showa Denko / Japan Japan Metals & Chemicals Co. Ltd. / Reading Alloys Inc. / Metal Bulletin Books Ltd. Metal / H. C. Starck GmbH & Co. KG. / Malaysia Smelting Corp. / Refining Co. Ltd. / Silmet Gesellschaft Fur Elektrometallurgie mbH / Cambior Inc. / Construcao (Pitinga) Mineracoa Catalao de Goias S.A. / Kennametal Inc. / Pan West Tantalum Pty. Ltd. / U.S. net / H. C. Starck Inc. / Republic / Paranapanema S.A. / H. C. Starck-V Tech Ltd. / Gesellschaft Für Elektrometallurgie mbH / Tantalum Mining Corp. / United States Mineral Resources / London & Scadinavian Metallurgical Co. Ltd. / FERROCOLUMBIUM AND NICKEL COLUMBIUM IN THE UNITED STATES / Metallurg Inc. / United States Cabot Corp. / Canada Ltd. / Cabot Corp. / Thai Tantalum Inc. / Teck Corp. / Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. / Teledyne / Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. / TABLE 5 U.S. FOREIGN TRADE / Amalgamated Metal Corp. / Thailand Thai Tantalum Inc. / Bayer USA / /
Continent
Australia / /
Country
Switzerland / Rwanda / Netherlands / Estonia / Burundi / Cyprus / South Africa / Peru / Thailand / France / Japan / Brazil / Canada / Australia / Portugal / Korea / United Kingdom / China / Ethiopia / Taiwan / Germany / Barbados / Mexico / Kazakstan / Zimbabwe / Belgium / Malaysia / Russia / Austria / United States / Nigeria / Spain / South Korea / Ireland / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Business Partnership / Funding / /
Facility
Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center / Greenbushes Mine / mine Gwalia Consolidated Ltd. / Niobium International Study Center / Niobec Mine / Thaisarco smelter / /
IndustryTerm
automotive emissions systems / farm tools / end products / owned subsidiary / communication systems / purity columbium products / cemented-carbide cutting tools / manufacturing facilities / combustion equipment / energy / columbium applications / metal / defense-related applications / weapon systems / chemical element / electronics industry / aerospace structures / columbium processing / raw material processing / aerospace / steel / transportation industries / mill products / reported steel end-use categories / columbium products / intermediate product / steel industry / electricity / chemical industry / electronic equipment / mining / last significant mining / raw steel production / radio communications / chemical environments / /
Organization
Defense Logistics Agency / Bureau of the Census / National Stockpile Center / Central Intelligence Agency / Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center / National Defense Stockpile Market Impact Committee / 2/ Government / SOURCES OF INFORMATION U.S. Bureau / U.S. International Trade Commission / Electronic Industries Association / Congress / International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry / Department of Defense / /
Person
Larry D. Cunningham Columbium / /
Position
good conductor / General / Chemical Marketing Reporter / Consumer NA NA Producer / /
COLUMBIUM (NIOBIUM) AND TANTALUM By Larry D. Cunningham Columbium (niobium—Nb) is vital as an alloying element in steels and in superalloys for aircraft turbine engines and is in greatest demand in industrialized count