Raw Materials & Commodities parts lists
BOMwiki maps 107 raw materials & commodities products, each exploded into a recursive bill of materials: 450 parts in total, down to individual fasteners and cells. The largest is the indium phosphide wafer at 20 parts across 4 top-level assemblies; the simplest is the zinc ingot at 4. Across the domain the same components recur: casting stage, cementation stage, crude indium anode and electrorefining cell appear in most of these machines, and each is a single shared page here, so a correction to one fixes every product that uses it. Open any product for its parts diagram, the function of each part, and the full bill of materials.
107 raw materials & commodities products
ABS Resin
Engineering thermoplastic for enclosures, appliances, automotive trim, toys, and 3D-printer filament.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Aluminum Ingot
Primary or recycled aluminum metal for casting, extrusion billet, rolling slab, and alloy plants.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Ammonia
Nitrogen chemical for fertilizer, explosives, refrigeration, fibers, and emissions control.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Barite
Dense barium sulfate mineral for drilling mud weighting, radiation shielding, paint, and chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Bauxite Ore
Aluminum ore rich in gibbsite, boehmite, or diaspore, feeding alumina refineries.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Bentonite Clay
Swelling montmorillonite clay for drilling mud, foundry sand binder, litter, sealants, and pellets.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Benzene
Aromatic commodity for styrene, phenol, cyclohexane, aniline, detergents, and resins.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Bitumen
Heavy hydrocarbon binder for asphalt pavement, roofing membranes, waterproofing, and industrial coatings.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Carbon Black
Fine carbon pigment and reinforcing filler for tires, rubber goods, plastics, inks, and batteries.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Cattle Hide
Animal hide feedstock for leather, collagen, gelatin, upholstery, footwear, and industrial belting.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Caustic Soda
Sodium hydroxide commodity for alumina refining, pulp, soaps, water treatment, and chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Cement Clinker
Nodular kiln product ground with gypsum and additions to make Portland cement.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Chlorine
Reactive chlor-alkali product for PVC, solvents, water treatment, isocyanates, and chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Chromite Ore
Chrome ore feedstock for ferrochrome, stainless steel alloying, refractories, and chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Cobalt Hydroxide Intermediate
Cobalt-rich intermediate from copper-cobalt or nickel laterite circuits, feeding battery salt refineries.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Cobalt Sulfate
Battery-grade cobalt salt for NMC cathode precursor and specialty chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Cocoa Beans
Fermented seed commodity for cocoa liquor, butter, powder, chocolate, and flavor ingredients.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Copper Cathode
Refined copper sheet commodity for wire rod, brass, tube, electronics, and electroplating.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Copper Concentrate
Froth-floated sulfide concentrate carrying copper plus payable gold, silver, and molybdenum credits.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Copper Wire Rod
Continuous-cast copper rod drawn into electrical wire, magnet wire, cable, and connectors.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Corn / Maize
High-volume grain for feed, starch, sweeteners, ethanol, oil, and industrial fermentation.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Cotton Lint
Cellulose fiber commodity for yarn, textiles, absorbent products, and technical fabrics.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Crude Oil
Petroleum feedstock for fuels, lubricants, asphalt, petrochemicals, and refinery intermediates.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Crude Palm Oil
Vegetable oil feedstock for food fats, oleochemicals, surfactants, soaps, and biodiesel.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Ethylene
Largest-volume olefin for polyethylene, ethylene oxide, PVC intermediates, styrene, and alpha olefins.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Ferrochrome
Iron-chromium alloy used as the main chromium source for stainless and alloy steel.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Ferromanganese
Manganese alloy for steel deoxidation, desulfurization, and alloying.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Fiberglass Roving
Continuous glass fiber bundle for composites, insulation, textiles, pultrusion, and reinforced plastics.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Flake Graphite Concentrate
Natural graphite feed for refractories, lubricants, expandable graphite, and battery anodes.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Float Glass
Flat soda-lime glass sheet for windows, solar panels, displays, mirrors, and automotive glazing.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Fluorspar
Calcium fluoride mineral for hydrofluoric acid, aluminum smelting flux, steelmaking, and fluorochemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Gallium Metal
Low-melting metal for compound semiconductors, LEDs, RF chips, and specialty alloys.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Germanium Dioxide
Germanium intermediate for fiber optics, infrared optics, PET catalysts, and solar cells.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Gold Dore Bar
Semi-refined precious-metal bar shipped from mines to refineries for separation and good-delivery gold.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Green Coffee Beans
Unroasted coffee commodity for roasting, soluble coffee, extracts, and flavor products.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Gypsum Rock
Calcium sulfate mineral for wallboard, cement set control, plaster, and soil amendment.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Helium Gas
Inert cryogenic gas for MRI magnets, leak detection, semiconductor tools, welding, and balloons.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Hot-Rolled Steel Coil
Flat carbon steel commodity for automotive, pipe, appliance, construction, and service-center supply.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Ilmenite Concentrate
Titanium-iron oxide concentrate used for titanium dioxide pigment and titanium metal chains.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Indium Phosphide Wafer
Epi-ready InP single-crystal substrate, 2–4 inch; the base material for the lasers, modulators, and photodetectors inside optical transceivers.
20 parts · 4 subsystems
Iron Ore Fines
Bulk hematite or magnetite feed for blast furnaces and direct-reduction iron plants.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Kaolin Clay
White aluminosilicate clay for ceramics, paper coating, paint, rubber, plastics, and catalysts.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Kraft Pulp Bale
Market cellulose pulp for packaging, tissue, printing paper, absorbents, and specialty grades.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Lead Concentrate
Galena-rich concentrate for lead smelters, often carrying payable silver.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Lead Ingot
Dense soft metal for lead-acid batteries, radiation shielding, cable sheathing, and alloys.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Limestone
Calcium carbonate rock for cement, lime, glass, steel flux, fillers, and flue-gas treatment.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Liquefied Natural Gas
Cryogenic methane-rich fuel shipped globally for power, heating, industry, and regasified pipeline supply.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Lithium Brine Concentrate
Salt-lake brine concentrated for lithium carbonate and hydroxide production.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Lithium Carbonate
Lithium salt for LFP cathodes, glass, ceramics, greases, medicines, and hydroxide conversion.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate
Battery chemical used mainly for high-nickel cathode materials.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Magnesium Ingot
Light metal for die castings, aluminum alloying, desulfurization, and reducing agents.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Manganese Ore
Ore feed for silicomanganese, ferromanganese, electrolytic manganese, and battery manganese chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Manganese Sulfate
Purified manganese salt for NMC cathodes, fertilizer, feed, and electrolytic manganese.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Metallurgical Coal
Coking coal used to make coke for blast furnace iron and some ferroalloy smelters.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Methanol
One-carbon chemical for formaldehyde, acetic acid, MTBE, olefins, solvents, and fuel blending.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Monoethylene Glycol
Glycol commodity for PET resin, antifreeze, polyester fiber, and industrial heat-transfer fluids.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Natural Gas
Methane-rich gas for power, heating, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, and LNG.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Natural Rubber Latex
Tree-derived elastomer feedstock for tires, gloves, belts, mounts, seals, and adhesives.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Nickel Briquette
Refined nickel metal for stainless steel, superalloys, plating, and battery precursor production.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Nickel Laterite Ore
Weathered nickel ore feeding ferronickel, nickel pig iron, matte, and battery-chemical routes.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Nickel Sulfate
Battery-grade nickel salt for high-nickel cathodes, plating, and catalysts.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Paddy Rice
Unmilled rice grain for table rice, flour, bran oil, brewing adjuncts, and animal feed.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Palladium Sponge
Refined palladium intermediate for autocatalysts, electronics, hydrogen purification, and jewelry.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
PET Resin
Polyester resin for beverage bottles, sheet, film, fibers, strapping, and engineering compounds.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Phosphate Rock
Apatite-bearing ore used for fertilizer, phosphoric acid, animal feed phosphate, and elemental phosphorus.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Platinum Sponge
Porous platinum metal intermediate for catalysts, jewelry alloys, medical devices, and electronics.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Polyethylene Resin Pellet
Commodity thermoplastic pellet for film, pipe, bottles, caps, wire insulation, and molded goods.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Polypropylene Resin Pellet
Commodity thermoplastic for packaging, automotive parts, fibers, appliances, and living hinges.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Polysilicon Chunk
Ultra-pure silicon feedstock for solar wafers and semiconductor crystal growth.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Portland Cement
Hydraulic binder for concrete, mortar, precast products, grouts, and soil stabilization.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Potash Ore
Potassium mineral feedstock for crop fertilizer and specialty potassium chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Propylene
Olefin feedstock for polypropylene, propylene oxide, acrylonitrile, cumene, and acrylic acid.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Purified Terephthalic Acid
White crystalline acid used with monoethylene glycol to make PET resin and polyester fiber.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
PVC Resin
Chlorinated thermoplastic for pipe, profiles, flooring, cable, film, and medical tubing.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Rare Earth Mineral Concentrate
Bastnasite, monazite, or ion-adsorption feed for separated rare-earth oxides and magnet alloys.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Recycled Steel Scrap
Secondary raw material for electric arc furnaces, foundries, rebar mills, and stainless steel remelt.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Refined Indium (1 kg ingot)
Soft silvery post-transition metal recovered from zinc-smelting residues and refined to 99.995%+; feedstock for ITO coatings, indium phosphide, and low-melt solders.
10 parts · 6 subsystems
Rutile Concentrate
High-grade natural titanium dioxide mineral for pigment, welding flux, and titanium sponge feed.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Salt Brine
Sodium chloride source for chlor-alkali chemicals, soda ash, food salt, deicing, and drilling fluids.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Separated Rare Earth Oxide
Individual rare-earth oxide such as neodymium-praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, lanthanum, or cerium oxide.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Silica Sand
High-silica quartz sand for glass, foundry molds, ceramics, proppant, and silicon feedstock.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Silicon Metal
Metallurgical silicon for aluminum alloys, silicones, polysilicon, solar cells, and electronics.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Silver Bullion
Refined precious metal for electronics, solar paste, jewelry, brazing, coins, and investment bars.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Smelter-Grade Alumina
Aluminum oxide powder feeding electrolytic aluminum smelters and ceramics.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Soda Ash
Sodium carbonate for glass, detergents, lithium processing, chemicals, and water treatment.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Soybeans
Oilseed commodity for soybean meal, vegetable oil, lecithin, biodiesel, and protein ingredients.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Spodumene Concentrate
Lithium-bearing hard-rock concentrate that chemical plants convert into lithium hydroxide or carbonate.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Steel Billet
Semi-finished steel form rolled into rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, seamless tube, and forgings.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Sugar Cane
Sucrose-rich crop for raw sugar, ethanol, molasses, bagasse power, and biochemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Sulfur
Elemental sulfur feedstock for sulfuric acid, fertilizers, rubber vulcanization, and chemicals.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Sulfuric Acid
Workhorse industrial acid for fertilizer, metals leaching, refining, chemicals, and batteries.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Synthetic Graphite Anode Powder
Engineered carbon powder for lithium-ion battery anodes.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Talc
Soft magnesium silicate mineral used in plastics, ceramics, paint, paper, cosmetics, and rubber.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Tellurium Metal
Byproduct metal used in CdTe solar cells, thermoelectrics, steel alloys, and rubber curing.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Thermal Coal
Combustion fuel for power generation, cement kilns, industrial boilers, and heat plants.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Timber Log
Roundwood feed for sawmills, plywood mills, veneer, pulp, poles, and engineered wood.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Tin Concentrate
Cassiterite concentrate for solder, tinplate, bronze, and chemical tin markets.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Tin Ingot
Refined tin for solder, tinplate, bronze, chemicals, bearings, and electronics assembly.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Titanium Sponge
Porous titanium metal intermediate for aerospace alloys, medical implants, and chemical equipment.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Tungsten Concentrate
Scheelite or wolframite concentrate feeding tungsten carbide, superalloy, and tool-metal chains.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Uranium Concentrate
Yellowcake feedstock for conversion, enrichment, nuclear fuel fabrication, and research reactors.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Urea Fertilizer
Solid nitrogen fertilizer and chemical feedstock made from ammonia and carbon dioxide.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Wheat Grain
Cereal commodity for flour, starch, feed, ethanol, gluten, and malted products.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Wood Pulp
Cellulose fiber intermediate for paper, tissue, packaging board, viscose, and specialty cellulose.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Wool Fleece
Animal fiber feedstock for yarn, felt, insulation, carpets, and technical textiles.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Zinc Concentrate
Sphalerite flotation concentrate feeding zinc roasters and carrying byproduct indium and germanium.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Zinc Ingot
Refined zinc metal for galvanizing, die casting, brass, zinc oxide, and batteries.
4 parts · 4 subsystems
Parts common across raw materials & commodities 12
Shared components ranked by how many of the 107 products in this domain contain them, directly or inside a sub-assembly.
- Casting Stage in 2 of 107 productsCathode metal is melted under cover gas around 200 °C and cast to standard shapes.
- Cementation Stage in 2 of 107 productsMetallic indium is displaced from the strip solution onto aluminium or zinc sheets as a spongy deposit.
- Crude Indium Anode in 2 of 107 productsCast anode of cement indium; impurities either dissolve and stay in solution or drop to the cell bottom as slime.
- Electrorefining Cell in 2 of 107 productsTank cell with chloride electrolyte; one to two passes reach 99.995%, with zone refining beyond 6N for semiconductor use.
- Electrorefining Stage in 2 of 107 productsCrude anodes dissolve in a chloride electrolyte and 4N5–6N indium plates onto cathode sheets; cadmium, thallium, and tin stay behind.
- Hydrometallurgy Stage in 2 of 107 productsResidues are dissolved in sulfuric acid and the indium pulled selectively out of solution by solvent extraction.
- Indium Cathode Deposit in 2 of 107 productsRefined indium stripped from titanium cathode blanks, ready for melting.
- Ingot Casting in 2 of 107 productsIndium melts at 156.6 °C; ingots are stamped with purity grade and lot, the form commodity traders and ITO target makers buy.
- Ore Stage in 2 of 107 productsIndium rides into the supply chain inside zinc sulfide ore at 10–100 ppm; roughly 20 tonnes of concentrate pass through a smelter for each kilogram of indium recovered.
- Smelter Byproduct Stage in 2 of 107 productsDuring roasting and leaching of zinc concentrate the indium concentrates into flue dusts and leach residues rather than the zinc product.
- Solvent Extraction Circuit in 2 of 107 productsMixer-settler stages with di(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid (DEHPA) in kerosene; indium loads into the organic phase and is stripped with hydrochloric acid.
- Sphalerite Zinc Ore in 2 of 107 productsZinc sulfide ore; indium substitutes into the sphalerite lattice at parts-per-million levels and is invisible until smelting.