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Taniobis GmbH (formerly H.C. Starck Tantalum & Niobium)
Leading producer of tantalum and niobium metal powders for capacitors and superalloys.
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Concentration2024
The tantalum-capacitor chokepoint people worry about is usually the capacitor maker (KEMET, Vishay) or the conflict mineral (coltan). The tightest link sits between them: capacitor-grade tantalum powder, the ultra-pure, surface-engineered metal powder that actually stores the charge. Only a handful of companies in the world can make it to spec, and TANIOBIS — the former H.C. Starck tantalum/niobium business, now owned by Japan's JX — is the principal non-China Western producer. Every tantalum capacitor in an AI server, a smartphone or a missile traces back through this thin powder-producer tier. It is a two-or-three-supplier bottleneck hidden inside what looks like a diversified capacitor market.
TANIOBIS GmbH ↗Did you know2024
The same tantalum that TANIOBIS turns into capacitor powder is also a biocompatible implant metal. Tantalum is exceptionally inert and bone-friendly, so tantalum powders are used to make orthopedic and dental implants and porous "trabecular" structures that bone grows directly into — increasingly via 3D printing of TANIOBIS spherical powders. So a single refractory-metal powder producer sits beneath both the electronics supply chain (capacitors) and the surgical-implant supply chain (hip cups, spinal cages, dental posts). The metal in your phone's capacitor and the metal fused into a patient's skeleton come from the same upstream powder house.
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