After shortages of semiconductors, wheat or even building materials, magnesium could in turn be lacking.
This element, which is very abundant in the earth's crust and in seawater, is not only essential for human health.
It is also a metal that many industries can no longer do without.
However, it may soon be missing, alerted Jacques Aschenbroich, CEO of automotive supplier Valeo on October 29.
There is "
an imminent risk of production stoppages throughout Europe, due to a serious shortage of magnesium from China
", had just warned the European manufacturers gathered in European Aluminum, Eurofer, Acea and others associations.
An essential raw material for the manufacture of aluminum alloys, widely used in automobile production, magnesium is not very dense and much lighter than metals such as steel, while being very resistant.
Considered almost irreplaceable by the aeronautical industries
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