1. Chemical Industry

– Raw Materials and Intermediates
Produces other cobalt compounds and metallic cobalt.

– Used as a basic raw material in the manufacture of cobalt chloride, cobalt sulfate, cobalt oxide, metallic cobalt, and cobalt naphthenate, etc.

2. New Energy and Battery Materials

– Precursor to the manufacture of lithium-ion battery cathode materials.

– Primarily used in the production of cobalt oxide, which is then used to manufacture cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries (such as lithium cobalt oxide batteries). This application is currently an important growth area, requiring high product purity.

3. Ceramics, Glass, and Pigments

– Used as a colorant
Used as a component in blue or purple pigments in the ceramics and glass industries (such as for porcelain enamel coloring and glass pigments). Also used in the manufacture of color-changing pigments.

4. Agriculture and Livestock

– Used as a trace element additive.

Used as a cobalt additive in feed or as a trace element fertilizer to supplement the cobalt required by soil and crops.

5. Mining and Metallurgical Industry

– Used as a mineral processing agent.

Used in mineral processing to enrich and separate target metallic minerals.

6. Specialty Coatings and Chemical Reagents

– Manufacturing camouflage coatings and chemical temperature indicators.

– Utilizing their chemical properties, they are used in specialty coatings and indicators requiring thermochromic or specific optical properties.

7. Catalysts

– As catalysts for chemical reactions.

– Used in industrial processes such as organic synthesis.

8. Analytical Chemistry

– Used as analytical reagents.

– Used in laboratory chemical analysis.