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This year Cofermin is celebrating ten years of trading industrial minerals. Managing partners Tim Geldmacher, Pawel Golak, Bernhard Krüger and Ralf Ossen talked to IM about the challenges of raw material availability and how the role of traders has evolved during the last decade
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Lack of criticism for industry despite less than perfect record
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IMCD, well established in marketing, sales, and distribution of speciality chemicals and food/pharma ingredients, is expanding more into mineral fillers. IM spoke with Johan Scholten, managing director, Benelux, and Director Plastics IMCD Group
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Traxys trades a range of industrial minerals worldwide including bauxite, fluorspar, soda ash, vermiculite and wollastonite. Michael Hochschild, head of Traxys’ industrial minerals division, shared with IM his views on the challenges to find reliable sources of material
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RBH, which specialises in talc, also supplies barytes, clays, magnesia and mica to various industries including refractories and ceramics. David Stuart, sales director, talked to IM about the crisis and the first signs of recovery in the industry
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India’s Bombay Mineral Supply Co. supplies a wide range of industrial minerals to various industries such as foundry and refractories. Shailesh Gandhi, managing director, talked to IM about raw material opportunities in India
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Germany’s Technografit GmbH is a major importer of natural flake graphite into Europe. Dominik Georg Luh, managing director, spoke to IM about the emergence of India, Brazil and Africa as potential markets and growing market applications such as fuel cells
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Spain’s Mario Pilato Blat SA trades minerals for the refractories, glass, ceramics and fertilisers sectors. Mario Pilato Blat, president and general manager, underlined to IM the challenges of the recession and the potential growth of alternative energy sources
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Europe Minerals trades industrial minerals to the refractories, foundry, ceramics and glass industries. Dirk-Jan Oldenziel, commercial manager, talked to IM about the potential of “greener” durable products and the opportunities of new markets such as nanotechnology
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ACC Resources trades raw material in North and South America for the refractory and foundry industries. Gerardo Cortina, president, discussed with IM the challenge to find alternative sources to China in this changing environment
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Garry Burgess, head of the South Africa mineral trader, Omega Chemicals, talks with IM on mineral sourcing, South African power hikes and the impact of the “Chinese mineral invasion”
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