The first edition of CPM Group’s Tantalum Quarterly: Review and Outlook will be released in January 2022.

This report provides unparalleled details and analysis, never before available in Tantalum Research, and is essential to anyone involved in the Tantalum market.

• A key element will be analysis of actual prices being paid for tantalum, based on information from a network of industry contacts. Real prices often vary quite widely from those reported in the trade press.
• The report also includes a deep-dive analysis of international trade data, going beyond the raw customs statistics to look at the actual tantalum content of shipments, who the likely suppliers and buyers are, and what the true prices are.

These quarterly reports will enable clients to stay on top of tantalum market developments with the provision of more granular, detailed, and up-to-date tantalum research, information, data, and analysis than has been and is currently available elsewhere. Statistics and analysis about what they mean will be distributed quarterly instead of delayed through the more traditional model of annual reports, bringing greater transparency to what has always been an extremely opaque market.

The focus of these reports is on data that are only available from CPM’s Tantalum Practice combined with CPM’s analysis of key factors affecting the tantalum market and price.

• The latest estimates of supply and demand
• 10-year projections of supply, demand, and price
• Analyses of developments for individual producers, processors, and users of tantalum.

CPM Group is an independent commodities research, consulting, and investment banking advisory company headquartered in New York. The company is considered the foremost authority on markets for precious and specialty metals such as manganese and molybdenum. The entry into tantalum research has been made possible by a new collaboration with Andrew Matheson and Patrick Stratton, who are both recognised experts in the tantalum market.

Andrew Matheson, the founder and principal of OnG Commodities LLC, has 25 years of experience in the tantalum industry, leading Cabot Corporation’s tantalum ore procurement and mineral development activities, as general manager of Cabot’s sputtering target business and serving as director of R&D. His experience includes a range of other specialty materials including niobium, scandium and rare earth metals.

Patrick Stratton spent 16 years with Roskill, where he led the tantalum research. His experience also covers niobium, gallium, magnesium metal and titanium. In addition to being the lead author of published research reports on these commodities, he has also undertaken many consulting assignments for producers, project developers, financial institutions and government bodies. He has an extensive network of industry contacts.