SMM Analysis：As of July 9, the total LME zinc ingot inventory stood at 106,700 mt, reaching a low since November 2023.

SMM reported on July 10 that during this week (July 4-10, 2025), the total inventory in the two major stainless steel markets of Wuxi and Foshan showed a trend of inventory buildup, increasing from ...

Major Progress Made by UK's Ilika and South Korea's SK On in Solid-State Battery Field] UK's Ilika and South Korea's SK On have achieved a series of significant breakthroughs in the R&D and ...

Energy density twice that of LFP! Major breakthrough in US Factorial Energy's solid-state battery] Factorial Energy has achieved a major breakthrough in developing large-scale solid-state battery ...

CEPRI announced on the investor interaction platform that upon the completion of relevant ongoing projects, the company would possess the detection capability for electrochemical energy storage ...

Affected by the significant year-on-year increase in China Northern Rare Earth's H1 performance, its share price surged by the daily limit on July 10, closing at a 10.02% increase, with the share ...

[SMM Analysis: US-based Nuvvon Announces Launch of Next-Generation Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries, Achieving Major Technological Breakthrough] On June 20, 2025, Nuvvon announced that it would ...

Patricia Barreto, a senior base metals analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said that a 50% tariff on copper imports by the US would "severely disrupt existing trade flows" as exporters would ...

Therefore, although copper cathode rod had no price spread advantage, it was only slightly squeezed by secondary copper rod in the first half of the year. Ultimately, the average operating rate from ...

Jiayuan Technology previously disclosed its Q1 2025 report, which showed that in the first quarter of this year, the company achieved a total operating revenue of 1.981 billion yuan, up 113.00% YoY; ...

[SMM Analysis]This week, the operating rate of the aluminum processing industry fell by another 0.1 percentage points WoW to 58.6%.

U.S. President Trump stated that he planned to announce later that day a 50% tariff on imported copper semis, a move that has shocked related global industries. The products of these industries are ...