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 on this keenly awaited event, and will be participating at the exhibition – please drop by our stand for chat, [...]
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 UNITECR organising committee. Save up to 40% on your participation UNITECR 2025 has announced that its Early Bird pricing has [...]
Salt Forum 2024 Review: Global supply | Pakistan | Bangladesh | Kazakhstan | EU | Solar salt | Chlor-alkali | Sodium-ion Batteries | Processing IMFORMED’s Salt Forum 2024 in Abu Dhabi November 2024 was a resounding success, bringing together the global salt market from right across the supply chain. We were absolutely delighted to host [...]
US Tariffs: minerals & markets in the line of fire Introduction to Mining Engineering IM Annual Review July 2025 by Mike O’Driscoll* There is no doubt, if any existed, that the commercial minerals world has now moved into a new era of unprecedented challenges in sourcing, mining, processing, trade and use of industrial minerals. Title [...]
Seen & Heard in Ulaanbaatar: Review of Fluorine Forum 2024 In what must rank as one of IMFORMED’s most ambitious conference venues to date, we were delighted to hold Fluorine Forum 2024 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Ulaanbaatar, 14-16 October last year. And what a success is it was, despite the relative remoteness of the [...]
Last week’s magnesia carnival - MagForum 2025 - in Praia do Forte, near Salvador, Bahia was a resounding success! In its 10th Anniversary year, IMFORMED staged its MagForum flagship conference outside Europe for the first time, and brought together 130 of the world’s leading players in the magnesia supply chain for two days of networking [...]
Boosting CO2 reductions, recycling rates & game changing CCU plants: Constantin Beelitz, President Europe, CIS & Turkey, RHI Magnesita, talked with Mike O’Driscoll, IMFORMED on the company’s accelerating journey in sustainability within one of the most energy-intensive mineral manufacturing industries critical to many end markets. Title Image All fired up: RHI Magnesita is a leader [...]
Refractory magnesia supply trends & developments Magnesia (magnesium oxide, MgO) is one of the great workhorse refractory raw materials vital to manufacturing a wide range of refractory products, in particular the ubiquitous magnesia-carbon brick, essential to steelmaking worldwide. Magnesia is sourced mainly from the natural mineral magnesite, and increasingly rarely from synthetic sources such as [...]
IMFORMED’s 2025 conference programme got off to a fine start earlier this month with Mineral Recycling Forum 2025, at Mandelieu-La Napoule, near Cannes, 9-11 April. Bringing together leading players in recycling industrialminerals to network & listen to speakers on recycling calcium carbonate, andalusite, graphite, alumina, critical minerals, salt, fluorspar, refractories, glass, and ceramics. Special thanks [...]
Which mineral imports & markets are in line of US tariff fire? The industrial minerals trading community will be steeling itself over the latest round of US trade tariffs brought to bear on Tuesday 4 March on Canada (25%), China (doubled to 20%) and Mexico (25%). Going on the early form of this new US [...]
