Zinc, also widely known as the galvanizing metal, accounts for 60 percent of the global usage in all forms. Zinc is also converted into rolled and extruded semi-manufactured products and is used in making oxides in chemicals.

The end-user market is dominated by construction and infrastructure followed by transport and industrial machinery and then consumer products.

In the special segment 'Commodities Trade', CNBC-TV18's Manisha Gupta gets all the details about zinc and where it is headed.

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(Edited by : Priyanka Rathi)