After lunch, Juncong Feng, from the Chinese industrial statistics analysis organization Antaike, provided some insight on the country's germanium market.
China is the world's largest producer of germanium, a metalloid vital to the infra-red optics industry. Feng highlighted how growing domestic demand for germanium from China's telecom industry - which uses germanium chloride coated optical fibres - has reduced the quantity of the metal that is exported....Read Full Post