Industrial Minerals


Lanxess takes control of South African foundry sand supply

14 October 2011

by Jessica Roberts

Chemicals group now selling chromite foundry sand direct to customers

Keywords: Lanxess, Bayer, chromite, foundry, South Africa, Amcol

Speciality chemicals group Lanxess AG has started supplying foundry grades of chromite sand directly to customers from its mine in Rustenburg, South Africa, effective this month.

 

“Through integration of the supply chain from mine to end-user, all from a single supplier, we can provide the foundry industry with high-quality chromite sand products of consistently high quality,” commented...