Article intéressant China’s 2020 refined nickel imports slump to 6-year low https://www.mining.com/web/chinas-2020-refined-nickel-imports-slump-to-6-year-low/ Voici quelques extraits :
It’s not that China isn’t buying lots of nickel. It’s just that it’s buying lots of raw material, leaving the refined market undisturbed.
But there are signs that growing demand from the battery sector is starting to make an impact on China’s nickel trade landscape. A Chinese nickel sulphate supply squeeze may accelerate that shift.
It could, though, also trigger another reformulation of entire nickel supply chain.
[...] battery manufacturers need a special kind of nickel – nickel sulphate – that can only be made from refined metal or intermediate products such as mixed-hydroxide-product or mixed-sulphide-precipitate.
