Industrial Minerals

Silica sand

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PRICING NOTICE: Holiday pricing schedule for 2021-2022

Monday, 04 January 2021

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UK, EU reach Brexit deal ensuring tariff-free trade

Thursday, 24 December 2020

The United Kingdom and European Union have reached an agreement on a trade deal that will ensure tariff-free trading of most goods between the country and the bloc after December 31 when the withdrawal transition period ends, easing metals and minerals market participants’ fears of logistics paralysis and material shortages.
PRICING NOTICE: Holiday pricing schedule for 2020-2021

Monday, 03 February 2020

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Digitalization of global trade gets major push

Monday, 27 January 2020

The digitalization of global trade received another push this week, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the government of Singapore and industry participants signing an agreement to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of technologies in commerce at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

PRICING NOTICE: Holiday pricing schedule for 2020-2021

Monday, 03 February 2020

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PRICING NOTICE: Fastmarkets moves to annual methodology reviews across PRA divisions

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Beginning in 2020, Fastmarkets will review its pricing methodologies and price specifications across all its Price Reporting Agency (PRA) divisions - Metals & Mining and Forest Products - on an annual basis rather than twice per year.
PRICING NOTICE: Discontinuation of silica sand, feldspar prices

Tuesday, 05 February 2019

Fastmarkets will discontinue its feldspar and silica sand prices, while it expands the sand price offering on existing core markets.
PRICING NOTICE: Proposal to discontinue prices in seven minerals markets

Friday, 30 November 2018

Fastmarkets IM is opening a market consultation to seek feedback on its proposal to discontinue a range of prices across seven different markets.

Building on silica sand: Vietnam’s glass industry

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Vietnam has ambitions to become one of Asia’s biggest glass exporters. Tran Kim Phuong looks at how the country is trying to achieve this by exploiting its high quality domestic silica sand reserves.
On the way up: Industrial minerals in India

Thursday, 22 February 2018

India has recorded economic growth of around 7% per year in the past three years. But while it has significant resources of some of the most widely used industrial minerals, this sector has shown only modest growth, as Industrial Minerals correspondent Sunder Singh discovers.
US exiting Paris Treaty not expected to impact minerals sector

Friday, 07 July 2017

In the wake of President Trump’s announcement that the US will be pulling out of the 2015 Paris Climate Treaty, IM looks at the significance of this move and the possible impact this will have on the industrial minerals market. By Mark Rowe
Cracking under pressure? Glass markets in Europe

Thursday, 27 April 2017

The global economic downturn and the subsequent lull in construction has taken its toll on the global float glass market. Now however, as Sarah Gibbons and Liz Newmark discover, the industry is looking to a brighter future - despite there still being challenges for producers and the raw material markets which supply them.