Western industrial users seen as hopeless at securing specialty metals supplies
Hallgarten & Company metals analyst Christopher Ecclestone ........... believes the obvious parties who need to secure a good reliable source of lithium are the producers of hybrid cars. He feels the most advanced in the mating game between upstream and downstream is Orocobre, which agreed to establish a joint venture with Toyota's Tsusho subsidiary to develop the Salar de Olaroz Project in Argentina.
