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| TABLE� 9 | ||||||
| �NIOBIUM AND TANTALUM MANUFACTURING1 | ||||||
| Country | Company | Internet address (http://www.) | ||||
| Austria | Plansee SE | plansee.com | ||||
| Do. | Treibacher Industrie AG | treibacher.com | ||||
| Brazil | Cia. Industrial Fluminense | metallurg.com | ||||
| Do. | Minera��o Catalao de Goias S.A. (Catalao) | NA | ||||
| Belgium | Honeywell Belgium N.V. | honeywell.com | ||||
| China | Conghua Tantalum & Niobium | NA | ||||
| Do. | Duoluoshan Sapphire Rare Metal Co. | NA | ||||
| Do. | F&X Electro-Materials Ltd. | fxelectro.com | ||||
| Do. | Fogang Jiata Metals Co., Ltd. | NA | ||||
| Do. | Gui-Family Tantalum-Niobuim Ltd. | guifamily.com | ||||
| Do. | Jiujiang Jinxin Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. | jiujiangjx.com | ||||
| Do. | Jiujiang Tanbre Smelter | NA | ||||
| Do. | Ningxia Non-ferrous Metals Smetltery | nniec.com | ||||
| Do. | Northwest Inst. Non-ferrous Metals Reaserch | NA | ||||
| Do. | Taike Texhnology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. | NA | ||||
| Do. | Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Works | chinacarbide.com | ||||
| Denmark | Tantalum Technologies A/S | tantalum-coating.com | ||||
| Estonia | AS Silmet | silmet.ee | ||||
| France� | Firadec | firadec.fr | ||||
| Germany, western states | H.C. Starck GmbH� | hcstarck.com | ||||
| Do. | W.C. Heraeus GmbH | heraeus.com | ||||
| Japan | Cabot Supermetals KK | cabot-corp.com/ | ||||
| Do. | Hi & M Corporation | hiandm.co.jp | ||||
| Do. | H.C. Starck Ltd. | hsctarck.com | ||||
| Do. | Hitachi AIC Inc. | hitachi-aic.com | ||||
| Do. | Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. | mitsui-kinzoku.co.jp/en/ | ||||
| Do. | NEC Tokin | nec-tokin.com | ||||
| Do. | Nichicon Corp | nichicon.co.jp | ||||
| Kazakhstan | JSC Irtysh Chemical-Metallurgical Plant | ihmz.kz | ||||
| Do. | NAC Kazatomprom | kazatomprom.kz/eng/ | ||||
| Russia | Rosredmet | NA | ||||
| Do. | Solikamsk Magnesium Works | smw.ru | ||||
| Do. | TVEL Corporation | tvel.ru/ | ||||
| Thailand� | H.C. Starck (Thailand) Co. Ltd. | hcstarck.com | ||||
| United Kingdom | ABS Industrial Resources Ltd. | absgroup.co.uk | ||||
| Do. | AVX Ltd. | avx.com | ||||
| Do. | Advanced Alloy Services Ltd. | advancedalloys.co.uk | ||||
| Do. | Elite Material Solutions | kemet.com | ||||
| Do. | Metalyis Ltd. | metalyie.com | ||||
| United States | ATI Wah Chang | wahchang.com | ||||
| Do | Cabot Supermetals | cabot-corp.com | ||||
| Do. | Exotech | exotech.usa.com | ||||
| Do. | H.C. Starck Inc. | hcstarck.com | ||||
| Do. | Hi-Temp Speciality Metals, Inc. | hi-tempmetals.com | ||||
| Do. | Kermet Electronics Corp. | kermet.com | ||||
| Do. | Niotan, Inc. | NA | ||||
| Do. | Reading Alloys Inc. | reading-alloys.com | ||||
| Do. | Tosoh SMD, Inc. | tosoh.com | ||||
| Do. | Zimmer-Trabecular Metal Techonlogy | zimmer.com | ||||
| Do. Ditto. NA Not available. | ||||||
| 1Companies that consumer Nb and/or Ta materials to produce other Nb and/or Ta materials. | ||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program