Long before Curiosity started its long journey to Mars, when NASA decided to have positioning stages from miCos GmbH and piezoelectric actuators from PI (Physik Instrumente) LP work together millions of miles away on the Red Planet, both companies were not aware that a down-to-earth collaboration lay in their near future.
The operations at Outokumpu Tornio site have received an environmental permit from the Regional Administration of Northern Finland. The expansion of the ferrochrome plant will be enabled through this permit and the plant is being constructed as per the plan.
On 15 August, 2012, AREVA inked an integrated agreement with Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) in order to supply enriched uranium. The value of this contract is more than €400 million.
Talison Lithium has reported that the Honourable Terry Redman MLA, West Australian Minster for Agriculture and Food, Forestry, Housing and Member for Blackwood-Stirling has officially opened the expanded Greenbushes Lithium Operations plant situated in Western Australia.
The first trona mine methane recovery facility of North America was commissioned by Solvay Chemicals in the presence of its US representative Cynthia Lummis and Chairman of the Board, Nicolas Boel. Methane released during mining is captured by the Methane Recovery System (MaRS), a closed loop, patent-pending design to avoid it from being vented into the atmosphere.
IDM International, a minerals processing firm, has declared that it has planned to commence its first large bulk shipment loading by June 20, 2012. Currently, Coos Bay-based dock and warehouse plant contains 11,000 t of SpheriChrome for loading, which will be then shipped to China. A major marketing firm in the mineral sands industry is buying this SpheriChrome shipment.
Westinghouse Electric and the State Nuclear Baoti Zirconium Industry (SNZ) have started the groundbreaking construction of the State Nuclear WEC Zirconium Hafnium (SNWZH), a new zirconium sponge production facility in Nantong, China.
EURODIF has announced that the company has permanently stopped production at its Georges Besse enrichment facility, which is situated in the Tricastin site.
Nemaska Lithium has announced that two US patents have been filed for its unique process to manufacture lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide. The company filed the US patent 61/636,869 on 23 April, 2012 to protect its method of preparing high-purity lithium sulphate and lithium hydroxide at low cost.
Worldwide Superabrasives (WWSA), a manufacturer and provider of cubic boron nitride (CBN) and industrial diamond products, and BESCO Superabrasives, have reported that they are extending the manufacturing plant in Kaifeng, China.
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