Domestic lime instead of magnesium from overseas could reduce global dependence on raw materials

With 87% of global production, China has a near monopoly on magnesium, an essential raw material for metallurgy. Engineers at the University of Duisburg-Essen and industrial partners have now developed a process that allows molten iron to be desulfurized to produce spheroidal graphite cast iron without using magnesium.

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