Resumen de Arciresa looks to Guyana for bauxite supplies

Industrial Minerals

• The processor has its headquarters in northern Spain’s Asturias region, and handles a large portfolio of the most commonly used refractory raw materials, including bauxite, fused alumina, graphite, silicon carbide and magnesia, serving refractory makers across the Western European and African markets. After almost a year of disruption in the supply flows from China, the company is now opening a new distribution channel by importing and processing bauxite from Guyana, which besides China is the other principal source for non-metallurgical bauxite. “There is demand for new origins, for alternatives outside of China,” Fernandez said, citing macroeconomic factors including the trade war between the United States and China, the consequences of which may affect minerals trading, as well as the strong performance of the US dollar against other currencies.