HPQ production in Russia gains momentum

• Autores: Industrial Minerals
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 577, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Noviembre)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • "Right now, the main supplier of HPQ concentrate [on the global market] is Unimin. Customers are [interested in finding] additional sources of quartz to 'hedge' their supply risk, and we can substitute a part of the volume they consume," says Pavel Polishchuk, chairman of Kyshtym Mining's board of directors.

    "We have been negotiating with Sumitomo for about a year and a half. The Japanese have an understanding of the global market and are very important for us [because of their] quartz processing technology, including for [use in] microelectronic and nanotechnologies," he said. "They not only brought money, but brought 'smart' money," he added.

    "In terms of constant product improvement, the world does not stand still and the quality of the material should be getting better and better," notes [Leonid Kuzmin]. "A team of specialists have been engaged in precisely this task, as well as reducing costs." Even though he stresses that the research team employed on the Kyshtym project have "the most modern laboratory" at their disposal, he admits that the company's US-based competitors are a long way ahead of Russian Quartz.