Lithium is widely used in the
battery industry, ceramic industry, glass industry, aluminum industry,
lubricants, refrigerants, nuclear industry and the photovoltaic industry, as
well as some other emerging industries. Lithium carbonate is a basic material
for the production of secondary lithium salt and lithium metal, therefore,
lithium carbonate is the most important lithium product, and other lithium
products are the downstream products of lithium carbonate basically.
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According to the report of USGS
(United States Geological Survey) in 2012, the global proven lithium resources
volume was 33.36 million tons, and the lithium reserves reached 13 million tons
(calculate by lithium metal volume).
Currently, the concentration ratio
of global lithium industry is very high, and the production capacity is mainly
concentrated in SQM (Chile), FMC (the United States) and Chemetall (Germany).
In 2011, the market share of these three corporations was about 75% in global
lithium product market, and this market share of China was about 24%. In 2011,
the global output was 125,000 tons.
As for the situation in recent
years, the production capacity expansion of global lithium carbonate industry
was slowed down, and the progress of salt lake expansion and lithium extraction
from Australian ores of the industrial giants was slower than the expectation.
Among the world’s top three lithium
carbonate suppliers, only Chemetall, which is owned by Rockwood, plans to
expand the production capacity from 22,000 tons to 50,000 tons by 2014. And
China’s salt lake lithium extraction technology is not mature enough, so the
production capacity expansion is not optimistic. The floods in South America
will affect the production of the enterprises which are engaged in the salt
lake lithium extraction, which may result in output decline; and the output
decline of lithium which was extracted from salt lake will intensify the
tension pattern of supply and demand in the global lithium carbonate industry;
such situation will promote the further price rising of lithium carbonate.
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