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Europe’s Defence Supply Risk in Tungsten and Titanium
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Europe’s Defence Supply Risk in Tungsten and Titanium: a DFM analysis of its strategic, industrial and financial relevance to European defence.
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Platform publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-06-13
Europe’s defence-industrial vulnerability in critical raw materials lies not primarily in mining, but in the concentration of refining and intermediate processing capacity outside the European Union. Tungsten and titanium—both formally recognised as strategic under the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act and identified by NATO as defence-critical—illustrate how dependence at the midstream stage can translate directly into capability risk.
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Europe’s defence-industrial vulnerability in critical raw materials lies not primarily in mining, but in the concentration of refining and intermediate processing capacity outside the European Union.
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