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Metals & Minerals

Light rare earths

Light rare earths are high-performance metals for future technologies. In magnets, motors and displays, they enable functionality at the highest level - compact, precise, powerful.

We deliver what makes high technology possible

Whether in wind turbines, electric cars or consumer electronics - key components cannot function without neodymium, praseodymium or lanthanum.

Light rare earths are small in volume, but big in their impact - and in their strategic relevance.

We secure the supply of European high-tech industries with high-quality, traceable raw materials.

So that innovation does not fail due to availability.

Rare earths in figures - 2024

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China accounts for over 90 % of global production of light rare earths - supplemented by smaller producing countries such as Myanmar, Vietnam, Brazil and Australia.

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Most important applications: Permanent magnets, electric motors, displays, alloys, glass finishing.

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Global demand for magnetic raw materials such as neodymium-praseodymium oxide (NdPr) is set to more than double by 2030.

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The German Commodities Group specifically taps into alternative sources of supply and brings strategically critical materials into European supply chains - efficiently and in a controlled manner.

Strategically rare - specifically secured

We trade light rare earths in the form of oxides, metals and intermediates - tailored to the requirements of magnet manufacturers, electronics companies and the mobility and energy industries.

Our customers count on quality, traceability and planning reliability.

We deliver - rarely, but safely.

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