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Clariant to showcase latest innovative technologies and products dedicated to foundry industry at Metal China 2024

Clariant to showcase latest innovative technologies and products dedicated to foundry industry at Metal China 2024.Clariant, a globally-leading specialty chemical company, will take part in the Metal China 2024 exhibition to be staged on 4-7 July 2024 at the National Exhibition and Conventional Center in Shanghai, China. As one of the leading players in the foundry segment both in China and globally leveraging over 160 years of industry expertise, Clariant will highlight to show visitors the company’s latest innovations dedicated to various foundry processes and how those in the sector could stand to benefit from them.

Syensqo launches Transfoamer product line, the Mining industry’s first “switchable” frothers

Syensqo launches Transfoamer™ product line, the Mining industry’s first “switchable” frothersSyensqo, previously part of Solvay group, announces the launch of its Transfoamer™ product line, the first groundbreaking frother innovation in more than 65 years. Well suited for coarse particle recovery, Transfoamer™ frothers are based on a novel technology that changes froth strength in response to pH, leading to more efficient copper recovery from even the most challenging ores, a critical need as copper demand grows in response to electrification and the energy transition.

GE Additive appoints Alexander Schmitz as CEO

GE Additive appoints Alexander Schmitz as CEO. (Photo: GE Additive, GEADPR070)GE (NYSE:GE) announced today that Alexander Schmitz has been appointed as CEO of GE Additive, effective January 16, 2023. Based in Munich, Germany, Schmitz will report into GE Additive’s current chief executive, Riccardo Procacci, who takes on an expanded leadership role at GE Aerospace.

Shell and GE Additive metal 3D print oxygen hydrogen micromixer at Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam

Additively manufactured oxygen hydrogen micromixer. Image courtesy of Shell.
(Photo: GE Additive, GEADPR069)
During formnext 2022, the global additive manufacturing event, Shell International B.V. and GE Additive unveiled the results of a joint design and engineering project – an additively manufactured oxygen hydrogen micromixer. This complex, non-functional, demonstration part, was printed in nickel alloy 718 on a GE Additive Concept Laser M Line system, installed at Shell’s 3D Printing CoE and Workshop, part of the company’s Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA) in the Netherlands.

Solvay Marks Milestone in Digital Mining Journey with SmartFloat, a Solution for More Efficient and Sustainable Base-Metal Flotation

Solvay Marks Milestone in Digital Mining Journey with SmartFloat<sup>™, a Solution for More Efficient and Sustainable Base-Metal Flotation. 
(Photo: Solvay, PR057)Solvay, a global market leader in mining reagent-based solutions for more than 100 years, is continuing its digital journey with SmartFloat, which is a first-of-its-kind digital system based on artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances base metal flotation by improving operational efficiency, metallurgical results and sustainability. SmartFloat provides another tool for flotation operations to implement improvements, just as SolvExtract® has done for solvent extraction since its launch in 2019.

TURN UP: Larger, Lighter Additive Parts

Equivalent to one meter in diameter, the first-ever metal 3D-printed TCF casing using DMLM technology in nickel alloy 718. Image credit: GE Aerospace. 
(Photo: GE Additive, GEADPR067)The EU’s European Green Deal sets out the need to reduce transport emissions by 90% by 2050, compared to 1990 levels, with the aviation sector playing its part. Policy actions and industry efforts since 2005 have led to greater fuel efficiency per passenger. Priorities going forward include financial and regulatory measures to drive low-emissions aviation and the urgent development of clean sheet frames, new aircraft engines and propulsion systems and Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

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