Its investment in a fleet of excavators, dump trucks, wheel loaders, compactor, motor grader, bulldozer, backpusher and cutter suction dredges will drive the company’s goal to be the biggest tin mine in Malaysia and among the top 10 in the world.
Tin boosts silicon performance in lithium-ion batteries Apr 22, 2021
Tin nanoparticles are key to stabilising silicon-graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries, according to the latest published research. This work adds to growing evidence demonstrating tin can significantly boost silicon performance. Adding just 2% tin can dramatically improve silicon conductivity in anodes, for example.
....... Tin is also very much in the race to improve anode performance, either alone or as a synergist with silicon and other materials. “Tin-based materials are strong candidates as the anode for the next-generation lithium-ion batteries due to their higher volumetric capacity and relatively low working potential”, said Fengxia Xin and co-author Nobel Laureate Stanley Whittingham in their 2020 paper.
Our view: This latest paper highlights another fascinating synergy between tin and silicon, confirming the significant potential for new tin use in lithium-ion batteries over the next decade.
Royal Society of Chemistry paper, January 2021
ITA Report on Tin in Lithium-ion Batteries
...... The rest i let you digest who might approach Lion Grp in future for TIN material i.e. EV Companies => TESLA / NIO to grab the materials in ADVANCE !!!!!
Semiconductor like TSMC and Apple will have super new competition for TIN Materials as EV automakers will GRAB OR PLACE IN ADVANCE in near future & of course compete with China for sourcing.
TIN = Future Gold / Bitcoin as a result of a person called Elon Masks (TESLA) that push to perfect EV batteries in the world
To EV like EU & US Companies i.e. a. VW Group (BMW , Porche), b. Mercedes , c. Tesla, d. Nio e. Semiconductors industries f. Solar
TIN Price is NOTHING as long as materials are in place because Western Companies need to create alternate route of sourcing , due to on going Technology (Cold Trade) War.
TIN Materials for Batteries is heating UP ............ infinity !!!!!
Indonesia, one of the world’s biggest exporters of nickel, banned exports this year while it seeks to develop a full nickel supply chain, starting from extraction, processing into metals and chemicals used in batteries, all the way to building electric vehicles.
2. Same, for TIN export , create supply chain (attract FDI) to build EV batteries factories & export. Create jobs & transfer of technology.
Recovery demand push iron ore price double. World steel price sure up. Good for Lion. Last qtr report profit 118m up 219% eps 17.37sen. Even mco on construction back to work with sop. Lion price today is undervalued
https://www.klsescreener.com/v2/stocks/view/4235 Latest financial report for Lion can be read in this link. Lion can make profit even during mco, coming qtr should be better cos construction allowed to carry on.
The US recovery is accelerating and President Joe Biden’s US$2.25 trillion (RM9.22 trillion) infrastructure plan will highlight sectors like electric cars, driving further gains in commodities critical to the green-energy transition.
That’s coming alongside a continued economic boom in China, where a push to reduce emissions is already filtering through to supply cuts for some metals just as demand is picking up.
“Global demand is recovering, led by China, while the green transition is bolstering sentiment further, ” Zhu Yi, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, said by phone.
“In short, demand will stay resilient, while supply won’t expand, upside momentum will go forward.”
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Inner Mongolia has said it would stop approving new aluminum projects as part of the country’s green push, and speculation about curbs in Xinjiang is giving further support to prices at a three-year high.
Copper — a bellwether for the global economy — rose as much as 2.4% to $9,780 a metric ton in London, the highest since August 2011, and settled at $9,751 at 5:51 p.m. local time. The metal has gained 26% on the London Metal Exchange this year.
Iron ore in Singapore jumped to the highest since contracts launched in 2013, while Chinese steel futures reached fresh highs.
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Steel’s stormed higher on a pledge by China to reduce output, though the measures have so far sparked an increase in production as mills churn out supply ahead of possibly more extensive restrictions. At the same time, rebar inventories are declining, signaling robust demand.
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The threat of Covid-19 in nations in South America could hamper the export of key industrial commodities like iron ore and copper, said Gavin Wendt, senior resource analyst at MineLife Pty.
Markets Global Steel Boom Builds as Rampant Demand Overwhelms Supply
Bloomberg News April 27, 2021, 2:12 PM GMT+7
Steel prices are spiking from Asia to North America, and iron ore’s relentless march toward a record is accelerating, as bets on a global economic recovery fuel frenzied demand.
The world outside China is finally catching up with the Asian steel giant’s already strong markets as a global rebound drives a powerful wave of buying that can’t be matched by production. Sectors such manufacturing and construction are ramping up and governments have pledged to splurge on infrastructure as they map their post-pandemic path back to growth.
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Pricing Power
Prices for hot-rolled coil, a benchmark steel product, are up threefold in North America from pandemic lows and they’re also soaring in Europe. In China, which has already enjoyed a year of robust demand, steel is the most expensive since 2008.
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Meanwhile, higher steel prices and China’s effort to clean up its mammoth and heavy-polluting industry with targeted production curbs has pushed profitability at mills to the highest in more than a decade, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence gauge.
METALS 28 Apr 2021 | 10:56 UTC Singapore China removes VAT rebate on steel exports, cuts tax on raw material imports to zero
Singapore — China has announced the removal of VAT rebates on exports of 146 steel products from May 1, a move the market had been widely anticipating since February.
The rebate of 13% of the VAT charged on exports of hot rolled coil, wire rod and rebar will no longer apply from May, according to a statement on the finance ministry's website.
The move to discourage steel exports and loosen imports of steelmaking raw materials comes at a time when China's crude steel output in April reached the second-highest level in history, despite production cuts mandated in the steel hubs of Tangshan and Handan in Hebei province, and as prices of seaborne iron ore reached a record high.
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