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Originally Posted by PaulaD
Right now China controls most of the chemicals (called rare earths) used in making glass and many other products and they have restricted exporting most of them to other countries. After undercutting the few other producing rare earth mines in the world in the 1990's causing them to close down there are few other places where manufacturers can currently buy these chemicals. (You can google "China rare earths" for more info.) The rare earth situation is the reason why some American glass companies have had to change formulas, raise prices, and sometimes stop making certain colors. Anyway, I was thinking that a glass company in China would have access to more and better chemicals and that should translate into great formulas and compatible colors, right?
I sure would love to visit China's mines and the the CiM factory some day!
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I mentioned this years ago when people were criticizing CIM because it was made in China. The "ingredients" that go into everyone's glass come from China, just not the finished product.
It's not like they are mining lots of cadmium in Italy..