Port of Houston tour confirmed for Oilfield Minerals & Markets Forum According to the USGS, estimated US barytes imports in 2014 increased by more than 29% to 2.9m tonnes compared with those of 2013, indicating increased demand for barytes in the drilling sector during that year. The US drilling fluids industry relies heavily on barytes imports, [...]
THIS FORUM HAS TAKEN PLACE - FOR DETAILS ON PROGRAMME, ATTENDEES, PICTURES, & FEEDBACK PLEASE CLICK HERE With just a month to go until IMFORMED’s inaugural Mineral Logistics Forum 2015, 24 April 2015, in Rotterdam, there is a final chance this week to take advantage of the Early Bird Registration Rate saving of €125. The [...]
First it was Oxane Materials, then Saint-Gobain, followed by Imerys, and now the mighty Carbo Ceramics. All of the US major ceramic proppant producers have now been forced to idle capacity in the face of falling demand before Q1 2015 is out, representing about a 23% drop in total US capacity. While the ceramic proppant [...]
Imerys, the world’s leading industrial minerals group, in a significant move for the industrial minerals sector has closed its purchase of Greek industrial minerals group S&B Industrial Minerals SA. The buy brings considerable mineral assets to the French multinational, in particular bentonite, perlite, and wollastonite. S&B's perlite processing plant and port at Voudia, Milos [...]
Titanium dioxide feedstock output to remain steady In expectation of a challenging 2015 and “to drive greater value”, Rio Tinto Plc today announced an organisational restructure, essentially a streamlining in splitting up its Energy business and condensing into four product groups: Aluminium, Copper and Coal, Diamonds and Minerals, and Iron Ore. One of RBM’s [...]
Where? Right here at the Mineral Logistics Forum 2015, 23-24 April 2015, Rotterdam – the networking and knowledge hub for all those active in logistics for industrial minerals. IMFORMED announces an exciting speaker panel with Imerys, Sibelco, Rio Tinto, Magnesita Refrátarios, NSG Pilkington, Midegasa, and RoBuLog discussing their mineral to market supply chains and latest [...]
The sharp drop in oil price has clearly impacted the ceramic proppants market with major producers halting expansion plans and in more severe cases closing plants. How long can we expect these doldrums to last? The first casualty, reported earlier by Newsfile, was the closure of Oxane Materials Inc.’s Van Buren plant in Arkansas on [...]
Prof. Haydn H. Murray, world renowned industrial minerals geologist and long time professor of geology at Indiana University passed away peacefully on 4 February 2015 in Bloomington, Indiana. Haydn Murray was a great worker and friend to the industrial minerals community. He was a major fixture at the meetings of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy, [...]
Logistics is one of the most important components of any industrial mineral operation or project development. And yet it is the one aspect in industrial mineral project due diligence that is most often overlooked. It can make or break a project’s route to successful fruition. Why is logistics so important to industrial minerals? IMFORMED is [...]
IMFORMED launches new platform for industrial minerals networking and research, announcing high profile Forums on mineral logistics, oilfield, and foundry markets. A new source of information and networking events dedicated to the global industrial minerals business was launched in January 2015. Topically focused forums for the mineral logistics, oilfield, and foundry markets have been announced [...]
