Magnesia: : A Sino-Soviet split?

• Autores: Laura Syrett, Albert Li
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 582, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Abril)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • China remains the world's dominant magnesia supplier, but domestic overcapacity and shrinking international demand are unsettling the sector, particularly as the country looks set to lose one of its largest export markets - Russia. Albert Li, IM Analyst and Laura Syrett, Acting Editor, examine Chinese export trends over the last year and look at Russia's efforts to establish its own magnesia industry.

    "Magnezit is realising a strategy of qualitative growth, aimed at the innovative upgrade of production capacities and technological processes," the company's CEO, Sergei Ogedov, told IM. "During the last few years, we have launched in state-of-the-art processing facilities in Satka, in the Chelyabinsk region and Razdolinsk, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and worked on producing and using our own high-quality Siberian magnesite." Magnesia products Magnezit has been working on for some time include gunning mixes and refractory concrete - areas in which Ogedov said the company has made good progress. "In terms of novel developments, our main direction has been towards producing magnesia-spinel refractories with different additives