Molybdenum Sputtering Target for Flat Panel Displays, Marking China’s Breakthrough on This Technology

China has developed the first G6 super-large high-end molybdenum target with completely independent intellectual property rights, and put into mass production in 2018. This means that China is the first country that can produce super-size target for semiconductors in the Asia-Pacific region, and breaks the European monopoly on this core technology.

As we all known, limited by equipment and technology, China have to import a large number of this kind of product every year, but now, the breakthrough means that China has taken a crucial step in the localization of core materials for high-end displays.

You may not know the connection of target and our daily life. Actually, they are everywhere in our daily such as smartphones, tablets and color TVs. Molybdenum target, also known as molybdenum sputtering target, it is one of the core materials of the semiconductor industry, more specifically, it is the key core raw material in LCD flat panel displays. In the modern life, we spend several hours or even more than ten hours in a day with it. That’s right, ‘it’ is the mobile phone OLED screen. 

It is proved that materials are the foundation for all products. High-end products and high-tech products have higher requirements for them. You may be a little curious why molybdenum is one of the preferred materials for sputtering targets.

Chromium was previously used as the wiring material for flat-panel displays, but it can no longer meet the higher requirements with the advance of technology. For molybdenum material, it has good advantages of high melting point, high conductivity and good corrosion resistance, and its specific impedance and film stress are only 1/2 of that of chromium. In addition, molybdenum is an environmentally friendly material. Therefore, molybdenum has become one of the preferred materials for sputtering targets for flat panel displays. Experts expressed that molybdenum material can greatly improve the brightness, contrast, color and other performance of liquid crystal displays and extend their service life.

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China’s Ferro Molybdenum Price Maintained Stability in April

Molybdenum concentrate market in China has performed well recently. 40-45% molybdenum ore is concluded 60 tons at RMB 1,610/t; 45-50% molybdenum concentrate is concluded with price of RMB 1,635/t and quantity of 200 tons. Steel mills’ purchasing in large number stimulates ferromolybdenum manufacturers to enquiry. Under the background, molybdenum mines and traders raised their strong rised mentality.

Market participants’large demand for molybdenum concentrate guarantees the high price of the market. While the price of steel biddings fails to reach RMB 110,000/t, resulting ferromolybdenum manufacturers’cautious attitude towards purchasing on high-price molybdenum concentrate. In April, steel mills purchased large amount of ferro molybdenum, so ferro molybdenum manufacturers will mainly focus on production and thus the quotation would remain stable.

Prices of molybdenum products on Apr. 28, 2018

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Ferro Molybdenum Price in China - Feb. 02, 2018

Trading in the international molybdenum market is thin owing to the weak demand and the price of ferro molybdenum and molybdenum oxide rises slightly. In China, the whole market is quiet and price maintains weak adjustment.

For molybdenum concentrate, with the coming of Chinese Spring Festival, miners not only reduce the production, but also are reluctant to sell, which support the high price of raw materials. Most miners are mainly producing according to previous orders.

The price and quantity of steel biddings fail to meet the market expectations, and thus ferro molybdenum price shows signs of decline. Steel mills’ plans for stocking up are almost completed, so manufacturers remain low willingness in purchasing, the market trading tends to be quiet.

Supported by high raw material price, molybdenum chemical and manufacturing enterprises raise product quotations and have not any plan to sell. Terminal customers are hard to buy low-price products, so the enquiry becomes less.

Prices of molybdenum products on Feb. 02, 2018

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Molybdenum Bar Price in China

The international market supply will remain short in a long time, but under the strong demand, molybdenum price besides China tends to be stable. Affected by the good performance in the international market, the price of molybdenum concentrate and ferro molybdenum continues to increase, especially when mines raised market quotation, sellers are more reluctant to sell. The supply of molybdenum concentrate will be tight in the short term.

In the ferromolybdenum market, manufacturers raise product quotations while traders slow down their paces for purchasing when facing the current market price. With the approaching of Chinese Spring Festival, more enterprises reduce their stocks to relieve financial pressure. So the situation of steel biddings in this week and next week would be very important to trend of ferromolybdenum. The price of ammonium molybdate and molybdenum powder is closely related to terminal demand. If the demand is strong, then the price will rise.

Prices of molybdenum products on Jan. 17, 2018

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Molybdenum Powder Price in China

Molybdenum market quotation: the latest price of molybdenum concentrate, molybdenum powder and molybdenum oxide rises slightly due to the improvement of market demand in China. While most of manufacturers have not yet returned to the market after the Christmas, so European molybdenum market is thin now.

Downstream enterprises need high-volume purchases for molybdenum concentrate. But due to the environmental protection policy and cold winter, production rate in mines declines sharply, resulting tight supply of raw material. At the current market, high quotation and fewer transactions coexist.

After the Christmas, international molybdenum price is higher than in domestic and most insiders wait and see. Demand for ferromolybdenum in China improves, part of steel mills start to replenish stocks. It is reported that a steel mill in Shanxi start a new round of biddings for ferromolybdenum, with the quantity of 260 tons. The price remains unknown.

Supported by shortage of raw material supply and rigid demand, quotations in domestic molybdenum market keep going up. Under the background of active steel biddings, ferro molybdenum price will be likely to rise. Downstream molybdenum enterprises may raise prices of molybdenum chemical and products affected by high production cost.

Prices of molybdenum products on Jan. 04, 2018

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Characteristics of Molybdenum Ore in China

Characteristics of molybdenum ore in China include low grade, rich accompanying useful components, high economic value, large scale and open cut mining, and high degree of geological works.

Low Grade

Molybdenum ore in China has large proved reserves, but with low grade compared with the main molybdenum resources countries in the world, most of which belong to low-grade deposits. For the low-grade deposits with average grade less than 0.1%, its reserves account for 65% of the total reserves, of which less than 0.05% account for 10%, medium grade (0.1%～0.2%) account for 30%, higher grade (0.2%～0.3%) account for 4% and the average grade higher than 0.3% only account for 1%.

Rich Accompanying Useful Components and High Economic Value

According to the statistics, molybdenum, as a single mineral deposit, its reserves only account for 14% of the total reserves in China; as the main mineral resources, it is associated with other useful mineral deposits, which account for 64% of the total reserves; others that are associated and coexisted copper, tungsten and tin and other metals account for 22%.

Large Scale and Open Cut Mining

According to statistics, reserves of large molybdenum ore with more than 100 thousand tones account for 76% of the total reserves; the medium-sized deposits with 10,000 tones to 100,000 tones of reserves account for 20%; molybdenum deposits that are suitable for open cut mining account for 64%. Most of large deposits can open cut mining and particles of molybdenite are coarser, which are easy to choose.

On the ore type perspective, the proven reserves of molybdenum ore in China are mainly composed of molybdenum sulfide ore that is easy to use, which account for 99% of recoverable deposits. Oxided molybdenum ore and mixed molybdenum ore that are not easy to be used and unknown molybdenum ore only account for 1%.

High Degree of Geological Works

Exploratory reserves after geological works account for 50.5% of the total recoverable deposits, 41.8% when in the detailed survey. When in the detailed survey, the reserves account for 92.3% of total recoverable deposits in China.

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China Molybdenum Wire Introduction

Molybdenum wire is an important product among molybdenum finished products and its total production accounted for 13% of molybdenum deep processing product’s total output. China molybdenum wire is divided into pure molybdenum wire and doped molybdenum wire and the diameter is generally between 0.051 to 0.350mm. The brands of China molybdenum wires are Mo1, Moδ, Mo2, Mo3, Mo3 δ. There Mo1 and Mo2 are pure molybdenum and Mo3 is doped molybdenum wire which is doped with Ca, Mg and other elements. Molybdenum wire main production processes are mainly as follows: First, through the powder metallurgy method can obtain molybdenum powder and the metal powder after sintering will produce molybdenum bar.

Secondary, the molybdenum bar is processed rotary forging or rolling to obtain molybdenum rod. Finally, after tensile process the manufacturers can manufacture molybdenum wire with required diameter. Compared with foreign molybdenum wire, there are some shortages on China molybdenum wire. The main problem is simple product structure. Besides, molybdenum billet is lighter and the average length of molybdenum wire is shorter. Further, uneven thickness of molybdenum wire is obvious and the surface has some shortcomings, such as trench, burr and easy to break and other.

 China's molybdenum wire trade developed rapidly in recent years, from 1996 to 2000, molybdenum wire exports accounted for 22.3% of imports and exports total trade volume. The exported molybdenum wire is mainly used in the picture tube industry, molybdenum coating industry and wire cutting industry.

At present, China's molybdenum wire production technology and equipment have been very perfect, and with the development of production technology, China molybdenum wire can not only meet the domestic market, but also can demand foreign market, so there are more than 10 tons molybdenum wire for export.

However, China's molybdenum wire in quality, innovation and other aspects still has some problems. In order to accelerate the development of molybdenum wire, China should first accelerate the development of molybdenum leading company to concentrate other scattered enterprises, in order to scale, multi-species, high-quality produce molybdenum wire. In addition, the molybdenum companies should through purchase the advanced production equipment and improve production methods to improve the quality of molybdenum wire products. Finally, they should combine with market demand to develop new varieties.