History Of Tantalum

Although tantalum was discovered in the early 19th century, tantalum metal was not produced until 1903, and industrial production of tantalum began in 1922. Therefore, the development of the world tantalum industry began in the 1920s, and the Chinese tantalum industry began in 1956 .
The United States was the first country in the world to start the production of tantalum, and started the industrial scale production of tantalum metal in 1922. Japan and other capitalist countries began to develop tantalum industry from the late 1950s or early 1960s. After decades of development, the world tantalum industrial production has reached a fairly high level. since the 1990s, the more large-scale tantalum production enterprises are the U.S. Cabot Group (U.S. Cabot, Japan Showa Cabot), Germany HCST Group (Germany HCST, the U.S. NRC, Japan V-Tech, Thailand TTA) and the Ningxia Oriental Tantalum Industry Co. Ltd. These three groups produce more than 80% of the world's total tantalum products. Foreign tantalum industry products, process technology and equipment level are generally very high, adapted to the needs of the world's rapid development of science and technology.

China's tantalum industry began in the 1960s. China's initial tantalum smelting, processing and production scale, technical level, product grade and quality of the situation is far from developed countries. Since the 1990s, especially since 1995, China's tantalum production and application of rapid development trend, today, China's tantalum industry has realized "from small to large, from military to civilian, from inside to outside" of the transformation, the formation of the world's only from the mining, smelting, processing to the application of the industrial system, high, medium and low-end products a full range of Entering the international market, China has become the third strongest tantalum smelting and processing country in the world, and entered the ranks of the world's major tantalum industry countries.