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Ceratizit S.A.
Maker of cemented-carbide cutting tools, wear parts and tungsten-carbide materials.
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Cutting tools
Hard materials & carbide blanks
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Did you know2024
Every machined metal part — engine blocks, aircraft components, molds, medical implants — is cut by a tool, and the dominant cutting-tool material is tungsten carbide. CERATIZIT is one of the major makers of carbide cutting tools, effectively the "teeth" of all manufacturing. But tungsten, the key ingredient, is a critical mineral overwhelmingly concentrated in China, which dominates global tungsten mining and processing. So the entire machining base of modern manufacturing rests on a Chinese-concentrated mineral, and a cutting-tool maker like CERATIZIT sits at a chokepoint two layers up the chain: no carbide tools, no machined parts, no manufacturing. It's one of the most under-appreciated dependencies in all of industry — the tools that make everything else are themselves hostage to a single country's grip on tungsten, a vulnerability that surfaces only when export controls or shortages bite.
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