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General
Profile Information - Markets Served: Metal Casting - Lead
The primary
end users of lead are batteries and ammunition. Consumers of lead include TV glass,
computer glass, construction (including radiation shields), and protective coatings.
The U.S. is the world's largest lead consumer.
Lead is consumed
in the manufacture of end-use products, including batteries, ammunition, covering
for power and communication cable, building construction materials, and solders
for motor vehicles, metal containers, and electrical and electronic components
and accessories, in about 160 plants.
Lead-acid batteries,
starting-lighting-ignition (SLI) and industrial-types, continued to be the overwhelming
dominant use of lead, accounting for about 87% of reported lead consumption.
Industrial-type
batteries include stationary batteries, such as those used in uninterruptible
power-supply equipment for hospitals, computer and telecommunications networks,
and load-leveling equipment for commercial electrical power systems, as well as
traction batteries such as those in industrial forklifts, airline ground equipment,
and mining vehicles.
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