1. business and industrial

Start your GIFA week with an invaluable networking
and knowledge seminar on foundry minerals
Reception sponsored by
Media Partners
IMFORMED, the new source of professional networking opportunities and market
research expertise for the global industrial minerals business, introduces a new
platform for intelligent and topical business networking for the foundry minerals sector.
Essential for all those active in the development, supply, processing, trading, logistics, and consumption of foundry minerals
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME*
OVERVIEW
08.30 Introduction
Mike O’Driscoll, Director, IMFORMED, UK
08.45 Foundry minerals: an overview of supply
and demand
Jessica Roberts, Senior Analyst,
Roskill Information Services Ltd, UK
09.15
Supplying the foundry market:
trends & challenges
Laurence Lamy, Marketing & Communication
Manager, Imerys Refractory Minerals, France
09.45 Coffee
10.30
FOUNDRY SANDS
Overview of chromite supply &
foundry markets
International Chromium Development
Association, France
11.00
Chromite: from mine to market
Robin Steger, Cofermin Chrome GmbH +
Co KG, Germany
11.30
The supply and application of zircon in the
foundry industry
Chris Barrington, Executive Director,
Zircon Industry Association, UK
12.00
12.30
14.00
Lunch
BENTONITE & CARBON
Foundry’s position in the changing
graphite landscape
Simon Moores, Managing Director,
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Ltd, UK
14.30
Bentonite and carbon additives used
in foundries
Victor LaFay, Research and Technical
Development Manager, S&B Industrial
Minerals SA, Greece
15.00
Coffee
15.30
ANDALUSITE & CENOSPHERES
Andalusite’s role in the castings industry
Colin Bain, Chairman, Andalusite Resources
(Pty) Ltd, South Africa
16.00
Cenospheres for the foundry market
Erwin Grossmann, Head of Sales,
Mine Feuerfest GmbH + Co KG, Germany
16.30
Summing up & Close
17.00
Closing Reception sponsored by Cofermin
Chrome and Mine Feuerfest GmbH & Co. KG
* as of 20 April 2015; subject to change
Dunite and silica sand for
foundry applications
Javier Martinez Rubio, General Manager,
Pasek Minerales, Spain
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Start your Ceramitec week with an invaluable networking
and knowledge seminar on ceramic minerals
●Market demand & outlook
●Mineral supply status
●Ball clay
●Borates
●Calcium carbonate
●Feldspar
●Kaolin
●Lithium
●Silica
●Talc
●Wollastonite
●Zircon
IMFORMED, the new source of professional networking opportunities and market research expertise for the global industrial
minerals business, introduces a new platform for intelligent and topical business networking for the ceramic minerals sector.
Essential for all those active in the development, supply, processing, trading, logistics, and consumption of ceramic minerals
CONTACT & REGISTRATION
Sponsorship, exhibition enquiries: Ismene Clarke, Director, IMFORMED
Speaker, programme enquiries:
imformed.com
E:[email protected] T: +44 (0)20 8224 0425 M:+44 (0)7905 771 494
Mike O’Driscoll, Director, IMFORMED E:[email protected]
T: +44 (0)1372 450 679
M:+44 (0)7985 986 255