The largest application for tantalum is electronic capacitors, where tantalum's ability to form stable oxide films creates highly efficient, highly reliable and environmentally versatile components.

Approximately 2 million pounds of tantalum is employed in over 20 billion tantalum capacitors serving automotive, communications, computers, consumer, defense, medical and other electronic markets.

Featuring capacitance up to 200,000 CV/g, our tantalum powders have enabled capacitor manufacturers to yield better performance in the same size parts and pack more performance into smaller packages. Cabot is also developing new technology to take powders to capacitance levels of 250,000 CV/g and beyond.