Yunnan Lincang Xinyuan Germanium Industry (Share-holding) Co., Ltd, formerly Yunnan Lincang Smeltery, has been a Germanium producer for over 30 years. Backed by its rich natural resources and guided by the market demands, the company has been making continual and strenuous efforts to optimize its product mix and develop high-end products. As the only one in its field to integrate Germanium mining and ore dressing , abstraction via combustion, wet purification with zone-refining and R&D, now it has grown into a new & hi-tech enterprise boasting a full Germanium industrial chain and a leading producer and supplier of Germanium products in China. With its sales in 2007 accounting for 43% of the Germanium market of the national total, the company became a dominant player in China and Asia at large. The company’s product scope includes GeO2, GPZ ingots, Germanium Monocrystalline, Germanium optical elements, Germaniun Monocrystalline Electro-optical grade wafer, ultra-pure 13N Germanium Monocrystalline,etc. In 2004, the company passed ISO9001:2000 certification.

The company was entrusted by the State Standard Committee to initiate and sponsor Germanium meetings to draft a Germanium Product Standard for the industry and for the State. The Standard, including 12 items by the company, has now been promulgated and implemented nationwide. Besides, Lincang Germanium City Science and Techonlogy Garden was built and a Germanium Research Institute , which hired 3 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences to guide its search, was also set up by the company. Now with a professional team of technicians egaging in developing new Germanium products, the company has achieved a lot including 7 patents, 3 Science Progress Awards,smooth execution of 4 provincial scientific programmes and 1 provincial key and new product development project.