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XII European Congress of Refractory Raw Materials, Machinery & Installation
Meliá Lebreros, Seville, 13-14 March 2024
Co-organised by ANFRE, Spain (National Association of Manufacturers of Refractories, Materials and Related Services) […]
Magnesia Amore at Maggiore | Supply & Market Outlook
Review of MagForum 2023, Baveno, Italy
The shores of beautiful Lake Maggiore at Baveno hosted the largest and most successful MagForum to date. Some 230 international attendees from across the supply chain of the magnesia raw […]
Dr Ian Wilson 1943 – 2023
It is with great sadness that we report the recent passing of our great friend, mentor, and worldly industrial mineral geologist Dr Ian Wilson in mid-June 2023, just weeks away from his 80th birthday.
Without a […]
Industrial Minerals Back to Basics: What? Why? How?
Workshop at 2023 AGM of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Sometimes you’ve just gotta get back to basics to properly understand the principles of the industrial minerals business and how it functions.
IMFORMED was offered the opportunity to do […]
Industrial Minerals Review 2022-23: Getting greener | Sourcing smarter
My introduction to last year’s IM Annual Review of Mining Engineering concluded with a pointer to the challenges facing the industrial minerals sector in developing and employing carbon emissions reduction, energy conservation, and recycling practices for a […]
Dusseldorf Daze! GIFA-METEC 2023
A hot, intense, but fabulous time last week networking at GIFA-METEC 2023, catching up with our many clients and contacts, and making new friends in the industrial minerals, refractory, foundry, metallurgy, & trading markets.
We were especially pleased […]
Fluorspar new sources go underground for the battery charge
Projects in Mongolia & Germany | Updates from USA, Canada, Italy, Kenya, Australia
World fluorspar production capacity remains tight, with few, if any, new production capacities ready to come on-stream any time soon. However, there are […]
Mineral recycling radiates in Dubrovnik | Mineral Recycling Forum 2023 Review
Industrial Minerals | Refractories | Li-ion Batteries | Construction Materials | Fertiliser | LIBS
Springtime in Dubrovnik? It must be time for IMFORMED’s Mineral Recycling Forum 2023!
And indeed it was, with close to 100 international delegates […]
Challenge & change in the world of speciality aluminas – the view from Almatis
IMFORMED interviews Anıl Sönmez, Chief Executive Officer, Almatis
Almatis is the market leader in speciality alumina products and solutions for the high performance refractory, ceramic, polishing and speciality markets.
In April 2023, IMFORMED interviewed Almatis CEO, Anıl […]
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