IMFORMED’s Salt Forum 2025 took place in the Abu Dhabi InterContinental last week attracting 100 attendees from 34 countries, active in all stages of salt supply and demand. A wide range of key topics were [...]

Fluorine Forum 2025 took place 3 weeks ago at Baveno, Lake Maggiore, Italy. What an event! Whether learning about increased Chinese fluorspar capacity, FSA developments in Morocco and Italy, latest LiPF6 and semiconductor market trends [...]

IMFORMED has just spent the week at the superb UNITECR 2025 in Cancun, where the global refractories community met for four days of networking, exhibits, and presentations. A wide range of refractory industry topics were [...]

In the far north of Peru, more than 1,000km north of Lima, in the arid countryside near the port city of Paita, in Paita Province, lies an alluvial deposit of andalusite that is the world’s [...]

Anyone scanning the fluorspar supply sector right now cannot have ignored the uptick in activity and attention to mine development projects for this specialist industrial mineral. Fluorspar has recently garnered increased attention owing to it’s [...]

Representing some 90 years of experience Can you spot who’s who in a recent reunion of Industrial Minerals magazine “Old Guard” in a London watering hole? Brian Coope 1970-1983 (1977-1983 Editor) Gerry Clarke 1978-1989 (1983-1987 [...]

Preparations are in full swing for the 67th International Colloquium on Refractories (ICR) taking place at the Eurogress, Aachen on 17 and 18 September 2025. As Media Partner, IMFORMED is delighted to share the latest news [...]

As one of the Media Partners for UNITECR 2025, (the Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories), the foremost biennial event for the global refractories industry, IMFORMED is delighted to share the latest updates from the [...]