2023-11-16 10:00:00 Lithium filters, capable of extracting the precious metal from very low concentrated brines, of the order of 0.1 to 0.2%. The innovation of Geolith, the startup whose 25 employees are shared between the head office in Orsay (Essonne) and Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin) for pre-production, is of great interest to lithium producers. Because today, this … Read more
2023-11-16 23:05:00 Milk powders, the scourge of dairy producers in West Africa. Imports of these mixtures from Europe have been increasing in recent years. As a result of insufficient local production, these cheaper and more competitive milk powders represent an obstacle to the development of West African dairy sectors. Competition is tough and even distorted … Read more
2023-11-07 14:00:05 The harvest of white Albillo Real grapes in the Las Moradas vineyard had to start earlier this year due to higher temperatures. In San Martin de Valdeiglesias, in the Madrid region, on August 3, 2023. OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP While the harvest has ended in the Northern Hemisphere, it is time for … Read more
2023-11-09 06:30:00 Plastic has not said its last word. If not fantastic, it will perhaps be possible to sing the praises of VPR, a material described as “more resistant and more extensible » than market standards. Developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo (Japan), it can lose 25% of its weight by being exposed … Read more
2023-11-08 05:55:17 Officials in Europe boast of overflowing gas storage facilities. While publicly demonstrating the “achievement” from its outer side, they deliberately hide the reasons for the overflow of reservoirs – no one simply needs gas for two reasons: high cost and lack of demand for fuel. Representatives of the French energy giant Engie spoke … Read more
2023-11-06 17:00:05 Emmanuel Macron and the President of Uzbekistan, Chavkat Mirzioiëv, in Samarkand, November 2, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP Quite a symbol. Thursday, November 2, at the time of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Uzbekistan, the Orano mining group announced that it had extracted its first 350 kilograms of uranium from the Uzbek … Read more
2023-11-04 09:00:23 Palladium ingots are heated in a crucible before mechanical processing at the Krastsvetmet factory in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 31, 2023. ALEXANDER MANZYUK / REUTERS GWhen blown with helium, palladium has long flown from record to record. Regularly winning the medal for raw material jumping the highest over a year. In March 2022, the … Read more
2023-10-28 06:49:41 A young farmer dries cocoa beans, in Daloa (Ivory Coast), October 2, 2023. ANGE ABOA / REUTERS AWhen the papillotes wrapped in their golden paper are already making their entrance on the tips of their jagged toes to the most hasty merchants, the customer is tempted. Should he die two months before the … Read more