Quartz has unique optical, mechanical and thermal properties and is widely used in high-end industrial fields such as aerospace, semiconductors, and nuclear lasers.
The global quartz market exceeded 20 billion yuan in 2015. We estimate that the global demand for quartz materials in 2018-2020 will be 25.5 / 265.28 billion yuan, with growth rates of 8%, 4%, and 3%, respectively. Semiconductor, optical communications, and aerospace High-end demand is the main growth.
At present, high-purity quartz sand is mainly supplied by UNIMIM in the United States, and high-end quartz products are mainly supplied by Momentive, Heraeus, Tosoh, and 3M.