Global Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Market -Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, And Forecast, 2012 - 2018 on Environmental Expert

Environmental Expert: Indium tin oxide (ITO) is a solution of indium oxide and tin oxide which is found in a solid state. Typically, indium tin oxide has 90% of indium oxide and 10% of tin oxide by weight. When in thin layer it is colorless and transparent, while it forms a yellowish grey color when in bulk. Indium tin oxide is a member of transparent conducting oxide and is a widely used transparent conduction oxide owing to its excellent physical properties.

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Indium tin oxide accounted for approximately 97% of the overall market for transparent conducting oxides in 2011. The steady growth of transparent and flexible electronics is the major factor which is propelling the growth of the global indium oxides market. However, the growing R&D in developing alternatives for indium tin oxide is acting as one of the major restraints for the market.

Asia is the leading producer and consumer of indium tin oxide due to the huge electronics market in China, Japan, and Korea. However, countries like Canada, Peru and Belgium also represent strong markets for ITO and are in the list of leading producers of ITO. Companies like Keeling Walker and Kurt J Lesker Co. among some others are the major companies operating in the global market.

This report is a complete study of current trends in the market, industry growth drivers, and restraints. It provides market projections for the coming years. It includes analysis of recent developments in technology, Porter’s five force model analysis and detailed profiles of top industry players. The report also includes a review of micro and macro factors essential for the existing market players and new entrants along with detailed value chain analysis.

Yunnan Tin Group Saw Sharp Profit Decline in 2012 amid Falling Prices and Rising Inventories - Shanghai Metals Market

SMM Annual Reports: According to Yunnan Tin Group’s annual report for 2012, the company produced 39,791 mt of tin ingot last year, up 12.2%, and 17,385 mt of tin chemical products, up 22.8%. Its tin semis output was 19,629 mt in 2012, rising 8.8% from 2011. Despite increasing output, the falling tin prices and sluggish demand left its profit down 98.55% last year. Yunnan Tin Group’s tin ingot inventories increased 79% to 3,921 mt in 2012, while sales only edged up 5.7% to 39,860 mt, reflecting the depressed demand. The poor sales resulted in a surge in fi......

Withdrawal of Significant New Use Rules

Nimonik: EPA is withdrawing two significant new use rules (SNURs) promulgated under section 5(a)(2) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for chemical substances which were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMNs), i.e., rutile, tin zinc, calcium-doped (PMN P-06-36; CAS No. 389623-01-2) and rutile, tin zinc, sodium-doped (PMN P-06-37; CAS No. 389623-07-8). These chemical substances are subject to TSCA section 5(e) consent orders issued by EPA. EPA received a notice of intent to submit adverse comments on the direct final rule. Therefore, the Agency is withdrawing these SNURs, as required under the expedited SNUR rulemaking process. EPA intends to publish in the near future proposed SNURs for these two chemical substances under separate notice and comment procedures.

Timah Plans To Build Tin Chemical Plant Next Year

Factiva: Tin producer PT Timah (TINS.JK) plans to build a tin chemical plant in Bangka and Belitung islands at a cost of around IDR1 trillion ($117 million) next year, a company spokesman told reporters Wednesday.

"Listed construction company PT Wijaya Karya and a Korean company have expressed their interest in building the plant," the spokesman said, adding that the plant will have a capacity of 10,000 metric tons of tin chemical.

Timah, S.Korea's H&H To Build Tin Chemical Plant In Indonesia

JAKARTA, July 14 Asia pulse - Indonesian tin miner PT Timah Tbk (IDX:TINS) and South Korea's H&H Global Resource Co Ltd (KSE:041590) will build a tin chemical plant with an annual capacity of 100,000 tons in Bangka district.

"The construction of the plant is designed to increase tin chemical production," PT Timah president director Wahid Usman said on Wednesday.

He said PT Timah had signed a memorandum of understanding with HNH Global Resources on the joint construction of the tin chemical plant.

"We are now waiting for the results of a feasibility study which is expected to be completed in 6 months` time. Afterwards, we will conduct a study on the development of industrial estate and products," he said.

It would take one year to build the plant after the feasibility study had been completed, he said.

"The tin chemical products will be marketed at home and abroad," he said.

Tin chemical is the derivative of tin metal mixed with chemicals to produce plastics, PVC and electronic instruments.

To date, PT Timah has a tin chemical plant in Cilegon, Banten province, with a capacity of 10,000 tons per year.

Currently, Indonesia still imports tin chemical due to low domestic production.

However, Usman did not elaborate on how much the construction of the tin chemical plant in Bangka would cost.

PT Timah plans to start work on tin chemical plant in Q4

Metal Bulletin: "Indonesia's PT Timah plans to build an upstream tin chemical plant in Cilegon, West Java province, to feed into its 10,000 tpy tin stabiliser plant. 'Construction is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2011 as there are some design settings of that plant that are still under review,' said spokesman Abrun Abubakar. The new plant will..."

Russia to zero out tax on Far Eastern tin miners for five years - Putin

Factiva: "The zero tax on tin mining in Far Eastern Russia would be a temporary concession, lasting five years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at Tuesday's government meeting.

'The tax break is a temporary one, for five years. And we expect it will revive not only tin mining but also a number of settlements in remote districts of Yakutia and the Khabarovsk territory,' Putin said.

The measure, announced on December 6, should come into force in 2011 and create 2,500 jobs, he said."

Tin prices may hit at USD 30000 per tonne in 2011

Steel Guru: "Reuters reported that tin prices could potentially hit record highs at around USD 30,000 per tonne next year before falling sharply back as producer’s ramp up output.

Consumer goods group Henkel said that propelled higher by worries about falling supplies from the world's top exporter Indonesia, tin on the London Metal Exchange reached a record high of USD 27,500 per tonne in early November."

Commodities - EIU's quarterly tin outlook

Factiva: "World tin consumption, based on World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS) data, increased by 20% year on year in the first nine months of 2010, driven by a broad-based recovery in demand across all of its main end-use markets. The Economist Intelligence Unit expects that global tin consumption will have continued to increase in the final quarter of 2010, although at a much reduced year-on-year rate owing in part to base effects, resulting in a rise of nearly 15% to over 365,000 tonnes for the year as a whole. In 2011 and 2012 we forecast that the rate of growth in tin consumption will slow to 1.2% and 3.3%, respectively"

The Pewterer

The Pewterer: "Welcome to the first edition of The Pewterer, an e-magazine devoted to pewter and published by the Worshipful Company of Pewterers.�We have articles on: Pewter Collecting and the Smith Museum; AE Williams and Kirstie Allsop; Tin; a brief history of Wentworths; the decline of the Company’s powers of search; and more."

Yunnan Tin (000960.SZ) Jan-Sept net profit surged 214.75 pct to RMB276 mln

Yunnan Tin (000960.SZ) Jan-Sept net profit surged 214.75 pct to RMB276 mln: "The world's leading tin producer Ch ina Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. (000960.SZ) saw a surge of 214.75 percent in its net profit in the first three quarters in 2010, thanks to the pric e hike of nonferrous metals, said the company in its latest financial statement on Tuesday night.

The Shenzhen-listed company registered a net profit of 276 milli on yuan with 0.3522 yuan of earnings per share (EPS) in the January-Se ptember period. The operating turnover in the corresponding period sto od at 6.89 billion yuan, up 32 percent year on year.

The company attributed the growth to the price hike of nonferrou s metals, which resulted in its increasing revenue."

Chemtura Price Increases

The cost of raw material tin continues to rise, driven by tight supply and strong demand. LME tin prices have increased by  nearly US$8,000/ton since August reaching now the range of US$24,000/ton. The company states it is their expectation that tin cost will continue to remain at high levels and with high volatility.

Due to the unpredictability of the tin cost development, the price validity of Chemtura Corporation's tin products is reduced to one month. The price and validity changes will be implemented effective October 1, 2010 (or as contracts allow).

Products affected by this price increase are the tetrabutyltin, mono- and di-butyl- and octyl-tin oxides as well as mono- and di-butyl- and octyl-tin chlorides, which are used amongst others in specialty applications like glass coating and catalyst applications.

Chemtura Corporation (199 Benson Road, Middlebury CT, 06749; Tel: 203-573-2000; www.chemtura.com)

Yunnan Tin to start up two subsidiaries in Germany

Yunnan Tin Co Ltd announced that its subsidiary Yuntinic Resources GmbH will invest two sums of EUR 500, 000 to set up two subsidiaries in Germany in order to expand its sales networks.

The two new companies, named Yuntinic Chemical GmbH and Yuntinic Additives GmbH, will engage in inorganic chemical sales and additive sales

Tin, Way Beyond Tin Plate

Tin, Way Beyond Tin Plate: "As a recent analyst report points out, every laptop contains on average 32g of solder, which is 96% tin. Every Blackberry contains 7g of solder. Tin is as important to electronics as rare earths or precious metals, both of which get much more press. Demand for tin in the electronics industry makes it an integral part of the modern digital age and yet until a year or two back many in the investment community still looked at tin as a product primarily for packing baked beans in."

Reading the analyst report linked above, with data taken from the ITRI one could be excused for thinking there are in excess of twenty new projects on the point of commercial realization.

But in reality nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of these, what the industry terms occurrences, are not definable resources. Even those 5 or 6 that have been defined according to accepted standards only 4 have anything like an economic future and three of those – 2 in Australia and 1 in Canada are low grade polymetallic reserves dependent on the co-economics of the other metals occurring. The table is potentially misleading in that we do not have security of future supply it suggests, almost certainly not for the volumes that will be demanded by our increasingly digitally reliant world. One of the oldest of metals used by man has one of the brightest investment futures, for anyone with their hands on quality supplies.

Beanz meanz a screw-top jar

Factiva: "FOR 115 years, Heinz have been serving up everybody's favourite snack in a tin.

But times change - and shoppers will soon find the brand's baked beans on sale in a plastic screw-top jar.

From September, beanz meanz a resealable fridge pack.

Unlike the traditional tins, the packs will allow people to spoon out as many beans as they like before screwing back the top and putting the rest in the fridge.

The 1kg packs hold the equivalent of more than two 415gram standard tins of baked beans.

They come with a see-through measure on one side so hungry snackers can see instantly how many beans are left.

The six-inch pack has been shaped so it will fit in a shelf in the fridge. The whole redesign is the result of intense research and consumer focus groups.

Heinz say shoppers prefer 'more flexibility'.

But never fear, the original tins will still be on sale too."

Transparent conductor markets 2010: ITO and the alternatives

Factiva: "After years of playing second fiddle to indium tin oxide, ITO, alternative transparent conductors have reached their market takeoff point, according to NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm that tracks the transparent conductor market. The report titled, Transparent Conductor Markets 2010: ITO and the Alternatives says that while alternative transparent conductors will account for just 5% of transparent conductor revenues in 2010, by 2015 that share will have grown to almost 20%. According to NanoMarkets latest projections, the entire transparent conductor market (including ITO) will be worth $5.6 bn in 2015. Thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) manufacturers have moved away from ITO and won't be coming back. Other transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) will increasingly substitute for ITO in this application creating a cost-driven market for TCOs that was largely unanticipated a few years back. By 2015, NanoMarkets expects the non-ITO TCO market to reach $320 M, three times what it is today."

Manufacturers of thin-film silicon PV are expected to move away from ITO en masse as a way of keeping their panels competitive with other more efficient types of photovoltaics. Cambrios and Cima NanoTech have pioneered a new type of transparent conductive inks consisting of a suspension of silver nanowires. By 2015, NanoMarkets projections show transparent nanosilver inks producing $370 M in revenues making it the largest single category of alternative transparent conductor. While, alternatives to ITO will grow rapidly, NanoMarkets still expects ITO to dominate the transparent conductor market for years to come. Sales of ITO are expected to reach $4.5 bn by 2015. Initially, the use of ITO will be motivated by short-term concerns about disrupting existing processes or reduce existing economies of scale. However, increasingly ITO will be used only when the highest visual quality and brightness is required. In this new report NanoMarkets analyzes the transparent conductor market, covering ITO, ITO inks, other TCOs, organic conductors, transparent nanotube and graphene coatings and nano-metallic coatings. The report examines how each of these materials fits into the current and future requirements for a broad variety products including flat panel displays, e-paper and flexible displays, touch-screen displays, OLED lighting, thin-film and organic PV and EMI/RFI coatings. It includes eight-year volume and value forecasts of ITO and ITO alternatives as well as a discussion of strategies for market success in this market. Companies mentioned in this report include Agfa, AimCoreApple, and Applied Vacuum Coating.

Tin demand will grow by 8% in 2010

Metal Bulletin: "Tin demand will increase in 2010 on an improvement in global electronics goods sales, with government stimulus packages in China offering particular support, according to analysts from Societ Generale. “We expect tin demand to grow by 8-9% through 2010, supported by growth in the Chinese domestic..."

YTC Resources reports Tasmanian Tin JV to commence

Proactive Investors (AU): "YTC Resources (ASX: YTC) noted the announcement by Metals X Limited (ASX: MLX) of the commencement of an unincorporated Joint Venture with YT Parksong Australia Holding Pty Ltd (the Yunnan Tin Group Partners).

Yunnan Tin Group Partners have acquired an initial 50% interest in MLX’s Tasmanian Tin Operations.

Both MLX and the Yunnan Tin Partners hold a 50% interest in the Joint Venture. The Tasmanian Tin Operations include the world class Renison tin and base metals mine.

MLX and the Yunnan Tin Group Partners have established a jointly owned operating company, Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture Pty Ltd to manage the operations for and on behalf of the Joint Venture parties."

China: Chifeng to become a metal centre.

Factiva: "China's metal producers have begun exploring for non-ferrous metals in the northwest of the country, where the city of Chifeng is becoming a centre for such raw materials. It is thought there are extensive reserves of base and precious metals, eg, 3 M tonnes of copper, 15 M tonnes of lead, 20 M tonnes of zinc, 300,000 tonnes of tungsten, 2.5 M tonnes of tin, 3 M tonnes of molybdenum, 3 M tonnes of silver, and 200,000 tonnes of gold, with a value of $29.3 bn at current prices."

Global Tin Market to Reach 516.9 Thousand Metric Tons by 2012

Hao Odlna.: "Asia-Pacific represents the largest as well as the fastest growing tin market in the world, as stated by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. Tin sales in Asia-Pacific are projected to exceed 254 thousand metric tons by the year 2010. Among end-use segments, solders represent the largest and the fastest market for tin, projected to register a CAGR of over 7.6% over the period 2001-2010. In Europe, demand for tin in tinplate production is estimated at 25.2 thousand metric tons for 2008"