Beerse, Belgium – July 31, 2025 – 20:30 CET
Campine NV, metals recycling and specialty chemical substances firm from Beerse, Belgium and listed on Euronext Brussels, navigates in an agile approach by the completely different results of commerce wars.
Following the U.S. administration’s announcement on April 2nd, 2025, of recent import tariffs for European merchandise, Campine acquired official affirmation that its antimony trioxide (ATO) is exempt from these duties. This contrasts sharply with the 15% tariffs now utilized to most different European exports beneath the just lately introduced EU–U.S. commerce settlement. This exemption permits Campine to proceed serving U.S. prospects with out disruption or pricing drawback, at a time when some Asian rivals are confronted with newly imposed commerce boundaries.
“We’ve added 50% extra ATO manufacturing capability at our Belgian facility to assist ongoing demand worldwide,” mentioned Hans Vercammen, Division Director Specialty Chemical compounds. “This brings our yearly ATO output potential to about 18.000 tons.” he concludes.
“Campine sources antimony metallic from a diversified vary of suppliers throughout the globe” says CEO De Vos, “as extra non-Chinese language sources have now expanded capacities, the provision of the metallic has considerably improved in latest weeks, which has stabilised costs round 60.000 USD/ton. There nonetheless stays a scarcity of ATO on the worldwide market, regardless of weaker calls for, as some prospects try to make use of much less or substitute the ATO briefly or partially with various merchandise.
Campine grew to become the world largest provider of Antimony trioxide after the Chinese language authorities issued restrictions for export of antimony and its derivates in September 2024.
For additional info you may contact Karin Leysen
(tel. no +32 14 60 15 49 / e-mail: Karin.Leysen@campine.com)
