CRU’s Special Reports deliver expert insight into challenges and opportunities arising from developments in niche commodities and their markets, providing more depth to topics covered by our regular subscription services and going beyond these services to provide coverage of niche areas. Built on CRU’s global market expertise, each report provides actionable intelligence to help you plan, adapt, and move forward with clarity. 

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Comprehensive data combined with forward-looking analysis 

CRU’s Special Reports are off-the-shelf publications that provide valuable insight into topics spanning from critical minerals to energy transition technologies, supply chains risks, energy transition technologies and policy-driven disruption. Developed by CRU’s global network of analysts and consultants, Special Reports combine robust data with forward-looking market analysis.

Each one is rooted in CRU’s proprietary models and 50+ years of market intelligence — offering an authoritative perspective on significant topics.

Whether you're responding to regulatory change, assessing supply security or exploring new growth markets, CRU’s Special Reports help you to:

  • Understand evolving supply/demand and price dynamics
  • Respond to trade restrictions, policy risks and global decarbonisation trends
  • Support investment decisions with data-backed forecasts
  • Inform internal research teams with structured, expert-led insights
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Energy transition and decarbonisation

  • CBAM Special Report 2025
    Comprehensive guide to CBAM’s scope, impacts, and strategic risks across steel, aluminium, and fertilisers.
  • Direct Reduced Iron 101
    Introduction to DRI and its rising role in low-carbon steelmaking.

Critical minerals

  • Rare Earth Elements (REE) Special Report 2025
    Update of REE Special Report 2024, with a focus on Chinese trade restrictions and their impact on the global market.

    Long term outlook for supply, demand and pricing by individual REE oxide to 2035. 

    CRU insights featured in  Bloomberg, Reuters
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  • Gallium Market Special Report 2025
    Long-term outlook of demand, supply, and prices with market insights.

    Deep dive into China's gallium market and supply implications.


  • Vanadium Market Special Report 2025
    Overview and fundamentals of the vanadium market.

    Long-term outlook of demand, supply, and prices with market insights on market trends.

    Analysis of China's vanadium market and the 2024 rebar standard changes.

    Future outlook of vanadium redox flow batteries and implications for vanadium demand.
  • Germanium Market Special Report 2025
    Long-term outlook of demand, supply, and prices with market insights.

  • Antimony Market Special Report 2025
    Long-term outlook of demand, supply, and prices with market insights on market trends. 

    CRU expertise featured in Reuters, AP News
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Semiconductors and advanced materials

  • Silicon Carbide Market Special Report 2024
    Introductory primer on SiC technology and market.

    Market overview with demand drivers and supply/demand outlook.

    Supply chain mapping, process steps, and key players in SiC semiconductors.
  • High-Purity Quartz (HPQ) Market Special Report 2025
    Introductory 101 report on HPQ supply chain and applications.

    Long-term outlook of demand, supply, and prices with market insights on market trends.

    Updated deep dive with analysis on technology and key players.

Fertilizers and agriculture

  • Long-Term Sulphate of Potash Special Report 2025
    Global SOP price and supply/demand outlook to 2050, with China scenario analysis.
  • KCL Colours and Grades Special Report 2022
    Potash market breakdown by grade, colour, and end use with medium term (5 year) outlook.

Other

  • Aluminium Foil Market Special Report 2022
    Medium term outlook focused on supply (production and capacity by company/gauge)

    Battery foil special feature.

 

 

Who are CRU’s special reports for?

Corporate strategy and planning
Corporate strategy and planning
Sustainability and regulatory teams
Sustainability and regulatory teams
Procurement and sourcing
Procurement and sourcing
Financial and investment teams
Financial and investment teams
Product and technology teams
Product and technology teams

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