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December 2000
01 December 2000
In the September issue of IM we published a review highlighting the wide variety of special cements manufactured for a range of markets In that article, only brief mention was given to alumina cements, whose market is split into high, medium and low calcium aluminate cements (CAC). These cements, using limestone, bauxite, and/or alumina as starting raw materials have become the workhorse component of the growing castables sector of the monolithic refractories market.
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01 December 2000
The cat litter market remains a huge consumer of absorbent clays. People in the west, and in the USA particularly, are spending more and more on their pets. The US cat litter market alone is now worth $1,100m. In Europe the market is more complex but trends are still discernible, and to some extent have followed the lead of the USA.
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November 2000
01 November 2000
From its unassuming beginning as the “lead” in a pencil, graphite has become an $8,000m. industry. The applications for this slippery, conductive material keep evolving, and look set to make graphite a material for the future.
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01 November 2000
Both Saudi Arabia and Jordan have established modern and favourable mining laws and offer tax and other incentives to attract investment. Both are also steadily shifting the emphasis from public to private sector development of their mining industries..This article highlights some of the major projects that are now making it off the drawing board and into production
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01 November 2000
B2B, B2C, C2C, e-hubs (biased and neutral), vertical networks, aggregating, matching – ah yes, some of the familiar terms associated with the fast growing vocabulary of e-commerce. But what do they all mean? And more importantly, what kind of role can e-commerce play in the business of industrial minerals? Iain Scarr has been assessing just this issue
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01 November 2000
Haver & Boecker reveals a new innovation that it hopes will enhance the market for modern packaging technology