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EaglePicher Cedes Optical-Grade Germanium Leadership to Umicore

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Paula M. Powell

With Belgium-based Umicore SA's purchase of key germanium assets from EaglePicher of Quapaw, Okla., the domestic makeup of the market for the strategic material has shifted. Acquired for roughly $15 million, the facility, now Umicore Optical Materials USA Inc., produces products primarily for IR optics and fiber optics. Besides some recycling, production capability includes Ge optics, GeCl4 and some GeO2. Umicore USA Inc., which also has a GeCl4 facility in North Carolina, is now the largest domestic producer of optical-grade germanium. Germanium, which remains on the US Defense...Read full article

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