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Simona Vackeová has taken over Astrid Volckaert’s position as Secretary General of PRE in April 2017.

The 7th International Congress on Ceramics (ICC7) and the 62nd Brazilian Congress on Ceramics will be held in the Convention Center of the Recanto Cataratas Hotel, in Iguaçu Falls/BR, from 17–21 June 2018.

VERDER Group acquired the majority of the Austrian company Qness GmbH, thereby extending the portfolio of its Scientific Division with a product line for hardness testing.

Hydro has made an investment decision to upgrade and start up the second production line at Hydro Husnes/NO.

Eredi Scabini S.r.l., a well-known Italian manu­facturer of refractory products, and the German-based Henze BNP AG, specialist for boron nitride products, signed a strategic cooperation agreement for the development and distribution of boron nitride coatings.
Increasing aluminium component requirements, such as weight reduction or increased load-bearing capacity, necessitate special alloys and casting processes in cast aluminium.

Magnezit Group (Satka, Chelyabinsk region), the biggest Russian manufacturer of refractories, signed a memorandum on cooperation with the Japanese corporation Mitsui during a visit of executives of the Russian company to Japan in December 2017.

SGL Carbon SE has sold its 51 % shareholding in the SGL Kümpers GmbH & Co. KG joint venture to Kümpers GmbH and Franz-Jürgen Kümpers.

Rio Tinto/AU has received a binding offer from Liberty House to acquire Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Dunkerque smelter in northern France for USD 500 million, subject to final adjustments.

In December 2017, Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade; Hiroshige Seko, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer, US Trade Representative; agreed to strengthen trilateral cooperation in the WTO and other forums in order to battle unfair trade. European Aluminium, the voice of the entire aluminium value chain, welcomes the new commitment.