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27.12.2019 (888 Clicks)

Rio Tinto awards Cimic's CPB Contractors three significant Contracts

Cimic Group company CPB Contractors has been selected by Rio Tinto to deliver three separate packages of work at Robe Valley, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

20.12.2019 (937 Clicks)

Horizontal Shaft Impactor joins Superior’s growing Group of Crushers

Superior Industries, Inc., a U.S. based manufacturer and global supplier of bulk material processing and handling systems, plans to debut its brand new Sentry Horizontal Shaft Impactor (HSI) at booth C31389 during Conexpo-Con/AGG 2020. It’s one of a dozen new products the company will introduce during the Las Vegas trade show in March.

20.12.2019 (1034 Clicks)

Will Indonesia's Nickel Export ban boost the Philippines Economy?

With increased demand for stainless steel production and recent developments in technologies such as electric vehicles, demand for nickel is higher than ever. Unfortunately, this demand is struggling against an increasingly tightening supply of this now essential metal.

GlobalData's mining technology writer Umar Ali looks at the supply and demand conundrum.

Ali says: 'In response to the risk of increasing demand tightening local supply, the Indonesian government announced a ban on the export of raw nickel ores, bringing the ban forward from 2022 to January 2020. According to GlobalData director of analysis David Kurtz, this ban is intended to produce value-added nickel products, stimulate domestic processing of ore, and make the country a hub for electric vehicle production. Indonesia is the largest global producer of nickel and a major supplier of the metal to China's stainless steel industry; in anticipation of the ban, Chinese producers are building up nickel inventories. This has increased the price of nickel significantly, with prices at the end of September 2019 reaching more than $16,000 per tonne, an increase of more than 60% from January. When the ban was announced, nickel prices increased by 8.8% to reach a peak of $18,620 per tonne, the highest price since 2014.

'The mining sector in the Philippines is expected to benefit from the supply gap created by this export ban, with the country's nickel industry having suffered in recent years. According to Kurtz, the ban in Indonesia 'paves the way for higher exports of nickel from the Philippines to China.' With China being a significant importer of nickel, particularly for its stainless steel production, the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China has had a considerable influence on nickel prices.

'With the export bans in place, nickel prices are expected to remain high while stocks remain low. However, any escalation of the trade tensions between the US and China could lead to a fall in prices, and there remains the possibility of Indonesia relaxing their export ban (as it did previously in 2017 for a ban established in 2014).'

Source: GlobalData

                     

20.12.2019 (941 Clicks)

Normet Service Center inaugurated in Chile

Santiago de Chile, December 20th 2019. Normet has opened a new Service Center in Santiago de Chile.

19.12.2019 (850 Clicks)

Manchester Airport Relief Road Scheme - Temporary Retaining Wall

Tensar’s TensarTech TR2 reinforced soil wall system was the ideal solution for a temporary raised platform, allowing the safe installation of piles for a new bridge on the Manchester Airport Relief Road Scheme.

19.12.2019 (1149 Clicks)

Tensar T-value Method launched at ICE, London

Attendees at our Tensar Academy What if… workshop at the Institution of Civil Engineers on 19 September heard how project trials of the new Tensar T-value method have cut working platform costs by up to 30%.

19.12.2019 (918 Clicks)

Cimic's CPB Contractors awarded Contract for Metronet in Australia

Cimic Group company CPB Contractors, as part of the NeWest Alliance, has reached contractual close to deliver the Yanchep Rail Extension and the Thornlie to Cockburn Link components of Perth’s Metronet.

19.12.2019 (817 Clicks)

Triax makes the Cut in Perth - Subgrade Stabilisation

A Triax geocomposite enabled construction of a road across highly saturated, and very weak, ground to provide access to a new community being built on the outskirts of Perth, Scotland.

18.12.2019 (1218 Clicks)

Delegation from Turkish mining area signs cooperation contract with Halbach & Braun Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.

• Zonguldak hard coal mining doubles output and modernises plant technology

A core region of hard coal extraction and energy production with a 200-year mining tradition: This brief description applies to the Ruhr region, but also to Turkey with numerous state and private hard coal mines. But there is also a considerable difference: while coal mining in the Ruhr region has been history for a year, it has excellent prospects in Turkey. This is because the considerable regional deposits are to be mined more intensively than before. This is the aim of Turkey's energy development plan, which aims to reduce its dependence on energy imports.

17.12.2019 (827 Clicks)

Australia expects big Benefits from new Positioning System

Geoscience Australia has been trialling its Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) for the last 18 months. EY has published a report claiming that the tech could be worth A$6bn to the Australian economy if deployed across Australia and New Zealand, promising benefits for the resource sector.