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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Cases of Damage to Refractory Linings and Ways to Avoid Them New methods and the exchange of experience on reconditioning refractory linings in the event of their damage were the focus of the programme. A lot of scope was consciously given for the important technical exchange between attendees. The venue of the symposium, Tivoli, provided …

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Alkali resistance of refractories plays a role wherever alkali loaded gases or dusts have the chance to be deposited in the structure and to react with the refractory material, e.g. dust chambers or combustion chambers.