The market for calcined bauxite and fused alumina carries on in a state of limbo at the beginning of the fourth quarter due to a continued lack of clarity on the extent of the supply issues in China. Participants are facing hard questions about issues of continuity of supply from China amid a slowdown in …

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Krosaki AMR Refractarios S.A.u., filial del Grupo Japonés Krosaki Harima Corporation, ha anunciado la compra del productor de refractarios Refractaria S.A. localizado en Siero Asturias, España en el dia 30 de Noviembre, 2018. Refractaria S.A. es un productor de referencia de productos aluminosos conformados y no conformados, dedicados a la industria del acero, cemento, fundición, …

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Contracts for the fourth quarter and for 2019 will be subject to a “double digit” percentage price rise. French alumina producer Alteo will raise prices for its entire portfolio of products from October 1 because of increasing production costs amid unrelenting demand for material from consuming markets. The company confirmed to Industrial Minerals it will …

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Metallica Minerals and Melior Resources have announced a merger that will combine the two companies’ titanium, zirconium and bauxite assets, all of which are in Queensland, Australia. Australian Stock Exchange-listed Metallica Minerals Ltd and Melior Resources Inc, currently listed on Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange, announced on Thursday September 13 a binding agreement under which the …

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Attendees discuss how market participants will secure supply for the coming year, and how prices are expected to perform going forward. Raw material supply and market price performance were once again the leading topics of conversation among delegates at the 61st International Colloquium on Refractories in Aachen, Germany, in September. As was the case in …

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