Beryllium (production)

The activity generating the emissions is beryllium production. The Reference Product is beryllium. Beryllium is a steel gray metal. It is used in industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical and telecommunications. The primary use of beryllium is in beryllium-copper alloys, beryllium oxide ceramics, and as beryllium metal in a broad variety of products, such as computer chip heat sinks, contacts and connectors, disc brakes, highly conductive and high-strength wire, mirrors, protective housings, and X-ray windows. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/24546/documentation