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Topic Title: How does the trend towards newer products, including flat screens, affect the scrap composition that you presented?
Topic Summary: Question posed by the Moderator to John Lincoln and Andrew Shapiro.
Created On: 9/27/2007 1:54 PM

 9/27/2007 1:54 PM


Todd Osman

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Question posed by the Moderator to John Lincoln and Andrew Shapiro: How does the trend towards newer products, including flat screens, affect the scrap composition that you presented?
       
 9/27/2007 3:06 PM


Todd Osman

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Joined: 2/2/2007

John Lincoln replied: That's an excellent question. The first portion of the answer is that the majority of the scrap is still the old CRTs and so the big problem at the moment is that in the newer flat panels coming into play there will be a significant reduction in lead because the CRTs have quite a bit of lead in them. But we would expect to see some increases in lead and chromium for the processing of the flat panels depending on the particular processes there.
       
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