China's Oct 2025 First-Grade Sodium Pyroantimonate Output to Drop 12.24% MoM: SMM

[SMM Magnesium Express]Yesterday, according to Chongqing Daily, the Chongqing Hub Port Industrial Park achieved breakthroughs in the field of magnesium alloy automotive lightweighting. The park's enterprises successfully mass-produced 5,000 tons of magnesium alloy TPI semi-solid injection molding body structure mold, effectively enhancing the regional automotive lightweight manufacturing process level. In the first half of the year, the output value of large-scale automotive component enterprises in the park exceeded 2.2 billion yuan, with nearly 950 million yuan worth of products deeply supporting leading intelligent connected new energy vehicle enterprises such as Changan and Seres. As the mass production process of large magnesium alloy structural components becomes increasingly mature, its large-scale application in the new energy vehicle sector is expected to further accelerate.

[SMM Magnesium Express]Recently, Shanxi Badam Magnesium Industry Co., Ltd., the National Magnesium Alloy Materials Engineering Technology Research Center of Chongqing University, and Chongqing Magnesium-Based New Materials Co., Ltd. jointly signed an agreement to establish the "Badam Pilot Production Base of the National Magnesium-Based New Materials Joint Technology Center." The three parties will focus on innovating magnesium alloy surface corrosion protection technology and optimizing connection processes, addressing key challenges in pilot production industrialization to break through barriers from laboratory achievements to industrial mass production. With the implementation of this industry-university-research collaborative innovation platform, technical bottlenecks in the field of magnesium alloy corrosion protection are expected to be accelerated, facilitating the industry's transformation and upgrading toward higher-end and higher-value-added directions.

[Tungsten Express] Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (hereinafter "MMC") has decided to invest approximately 50 million euros to expand the tungsten recycling capacity of its consolidated subsidiary H.C. Starck Tungsten GmbH (headquartered in Goslar, Germany; hereinafter "H.C. Starck"). With this investment, H.C. Starck will increase its tungsten scrap processing capacity at its flagship Goslar plant from approximately 5,000 mt per year to 7,000 mt. The construction of the new facility is planned to start in 2026 and is expected to be completed within 2028. H.C. Starck produces and sells high-quality powder products made from tungsten, tungsten carbide, and related alloys in Europe, North America, and China, and also maintains sales operations in Japan.