Mineral consumption in Chinese rubber industry balloons
By Albert Li
Published: Tuesday, 29 September 2015
The rubber industry is expanding in China, resulting in extra demand for key industrial minerals including talc and calcium carbonate.
Rubber consumption in China increased by
20.5% between 2012 and 2014, to 8.8m tonnes, delegates
attending the annual meeting of the China Non-Metallic Minerals
Industry Association (CNMIA) in Xi’an, Shaanxi,
were told last week.
Jiangtao Wu, director of the Beijing Research & Design
Institute of Rubber Industry, explained...