Material Insights · Understanding the Material World

Vanadium: Relationships

Every element and industry that Vanadium is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

  • Steel: Steel is both vanadium's main customer and, in China, its main source: a few hundred grams per tonne strengthens rebar, and most Chinese vanadium is recovered from the slag of iron made from vanadium-bearing ore, so steel output drives demand and supply at once. (researched)
  • Construction and infrastructure: Construction and infrastructure depends on vanadium.
  • Flow batteries: Flow batteries needs vanadium.
  • Metal products: Metal products depends on vanadium.