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Umicore is the world leader in cobalt<br />
and germanium products and provides<br />
a wide range of specialty materials<br />
for hi-tech industries<br />
Umicore is the world’s largest<br />
and most flexible recycler of precious<br />
metals containing materials<br />
Umicore is one of the world’s<br />
top-three producers of automotive<br />
catalysts and has a leading position<br />
as a supplier of other specialty products<br />
based on precious metals<br />
Umicore is the world’s most important<br />
producer of specialty zinc products and<br />
is the world’s largest recycler of zinc<br />
Umicore is a major European producer<br />
of copper products such as wire rod,<br />
billets and shapes<br />
Advanced Materials<br />
Precious Metals<br />
Services<br />
Precious Metals<br />
Products and Catalysts<br />
Zinc<br />
Copper<br />
Umicore’s germanium substrates were used<br />
on both NASA Mars Exploration Rovers –<br />
Spirit and Opportunity – as part of the solar<br />
cells and panels provided by Spectrolab<br />
(a Boeing company)<br />
In <strong>2003</strong> Umicore recycled end-of-life<br />
materials such as electronic scrap<br />
from five continents<br />
One in every five new cars produced today<br />
contains an automotive catalyst produced<br />
by Umicore – products which help protect<br />
our environment<br />
In <strong>2003</strong> Umicore took in 165,000 tonnes<br />
of secondary zinc materials – 23% of its<br />
total feed<br />
Umicore’s Foxrod ® oxygen-free wire rod is<br />
used in applications where the performance<br />
of all components must reach the highest<br />
standards
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