Kyocera to Recycle Tungsten Carbide From Used Tools: What It Means for Indian Scrap

Published 14 October 2026. Kyocera has said it will build a refining facility in Japan to recover tungsten carbide from used cutting tools. It is a small announcement with a […]


China Tungsten Prices Keep Falling: What SMM and CTIA Say Is Driving It

Published 14 October 2026. Tungsten prices in China are still falling. SMM and CTIA, the two main Chinese price reporters, now put most products roughly 65 to 70 percent below […]


China’s Tungsten Trade, January–August 2026: Imports Up, Exports Down, APT Exports Almost Gone

Updated 10 Oct 2026 · WolfTrack by TungstenIndia.com China’s tungsten exports fell 25.01% year on year to 8,063.74 tonnes in January–August 2026, while total tungsten product imports rose 89.94% to […]


Sangdong Starts, Masan Gets a Buyer: How the West Is Building a Tungsten Supply Chain Outside China

Updated 10 Oct 2026 · WolfTrack by TungstenIndia.com Within two weeks, two projects outside China moved from plan to contract. South Korea’s Sangdong mine produced its first concentrate in late […]


Tungsten Scrap Is Going Strategic: US Export Restriction, Vietnam’s Draft Rule and What It Means for India

Updated 10 Oct 2026 · WolfTrack by TungstenIndia.com Two governments have moved on tungsten in six weeks. The United States has ordered its scrap sellers to keep material at home. […]


One Market, Two Prices: Why China Tungsten Is Falling While the Rest of the World Stays Tight

Updated 10 Oct 2026 · WolfTrack by TungstenIndia.com The tungsten market is no longer one market. Inside China, prices are being corrected. Outside China, supply is so tight that the […]


Why Tungsten Scrap Prices in India Are Falling While the Global Tungsten Market Stays Tight (October 2026)

Updated October 8, 2026. Information only. Not a recommendation to buy, sell or trade. The short answer Indian carbide scrap rates dropped this week. Button scrap (drill bits) opened lower […]


The West Is Building a Parallel Tungsten Chain — Piece by Piece

While one Chinese tungsten producer is fighting its own joint-venture partner over a supply cutoff, the United States, the United Kingdom, and a handful of Western companies have spent the […]


Xiamen Tungsten vs CMOC: A CNY 116 Million Fight Over What ‘Compliance’ Means

Xiamen Tungsten filed arbitration against China Molybdenum (CMOC) with the Beijing Arbitration Commission on September 21, 2026, seeking roughly CNY 116 million over a supply cutoff at their joint venture, […]


China Tungsten: Support/Floor Is Broken — More Bearish Signals Expected as Market Waits for a New Floor

The floor is broken. China’s tungsten concentrate market found support at roughly CNY 405,000 per ton twice this year — first May 25–27, 2026, when 65% wolframite concentrate bottomed at […]