Tanaka Precious Metals

Evaluating Technologies for Critical Material Recovery from Waste

As global demand for critical rare earths, battery materials, and semiconductors surges, end-of-life waste is quickly transforming into a strategic goldmine of critical materials. With IDTechEx forecasting that over US$66B of critical material value will be recovered from waste annually by 2046, IDTechEx evaluates hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, and other emerging recycling technologies for critical material recovery.

TANAKA Taking Orders 'RE Series' 100% Recycled Precious Metals

TANAKA Precious Metals hopes to contribute to the establishment of a Sound Material-Cycle Society, with increased demand for sustainable materials and products, by supplying the RE Series.

Tanaka Precious Metals develops ruthenium material for DRAM

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) has succeeded in the joint development of ruthenium material able to form a film up to six times the normal depth for capacitor electrodes used in semiconductor memory DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) with Professor Seiji Ogo of the Graduate School of Engineering Department of Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University.

Tanaka exclusively supply ruthenium dye for dye-sensitized solar cells

Tanaka Precious Metals begin supplying ruthenium dye compounds for dye-sensitised solar cells (DSC).