Following my retirement, we have closed our company for new business.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, our email portal remains open and I would be delighted to hear from you and provide ongoing support or advice.

Richard Thomson

support@rta-instruments.com

Companies represented up to the end of December 2023. Please now contact them directly.

k-Space Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1 (734) 426-7977
requestinfo@k-space.com
https://www.k-space.com

STAIB INSTRUMENTS GmbH
Phone: +49 8761 76 24 0
sales@staibinstruments.com
https://www.staibinstruments.com/

Monday, 20 April 2015

Waste not

Researchers at Yale University have assessed the “criticality” of all the metallic elements, indicating which might become more difficult to source in the coming years. Factors contributing to criticality include high geopolitical concentration of primary production (over 90% of the rare Earth metals comes from China); lack of available substitutes and political instability (a major source of tantalum is the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo). Another report has highlighted sewage as a source for extracting and recycling metals.

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