Nickel, iron, titanium: the economy needs metals from abroad. The dependencies here are even more difficult to resolve than with oil and gas. Now the prices are going up.
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Max Haegler, Christina Kunkel and Silvia Liebrich
What does the war in Ukraine mean for German industry? To understand this, a visit to Jochen Kolb’s laboratory is helpful. The professor of geochemistry and mineral deposits at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT also uses a laser for his research. And this in turn needs gas, more precisely the noble gas neon. “A gas bottle used to cost about 2,000 euros, currently it’s six times as much,” says Kolb.