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...The project, whose site is visited by kudus, springboks and buffaloes, is close to completing a feasibility study on the economics of extracting minerals from gypsum waste generated by old phosphate mines...
...They will be made with blocks of expanded cork from the Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim....
...The Bestwall motion cites the J&J ruling, saying it makes clear that financial distress is the first inquiry made before a company receives the benefits of bankruptcy....
...Elsewhere, companies are emerging to do the processing work at scale....
...Grey-coloured spodumene, a lithium ore, is refined in Kwinana by heating it in rotary kilns at 1,100C and using sulphuric acid to separate other components — including gypsum and sodium sulphate, which is...
...“Here it was salt,” says my guide, leading me on a short hike through a strange canyon filled with glistening boulders, blades of sodium, and fan-shaped slices of gypsum....
...Its co-founder, Karim Shafei, describes it as the first company dedicated to finding life for things that otherwise would be earmarked for destruction....
...Jones Day is billing similar rates to Bestwall, an affiliate of Georgia-Pacific, which is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, and the first of four companies to deploy the bankruptcy scheme since 2017....
...It’s a theme rooted in his early collaboration with the choreographer Merce Cunningham, the life-long partner of composer John Cage, who tasked Arsham with creating his company’s stage sets straight after...
...Near the end of the Oscar-winning film Nomadland, Fern, played by Frances McDormand, wanders silently through the abandoned offices of US Gypsum, where she used to work in human resources....
...Features include the building’s original painted company sign....
...“It’s had very bad effects,” concurs Marie Helene Pereira of the Dakar-based RAW Material Company....
...One young company in France claims to be pioneering this on a commercial level....
...He tells me about a gypsum plasterer in Provence whom he works with, to sculpt a ceiling representing the signs of the zodiac and time passing, at his house in Provence....
...So we beat on, Massoud, Mohammed and me, careering across plains of gravel and gypsum, leaving plumes of dust in our wake, until, bowling over ripples of sand, we arrived at a clutch of white tents pitched...
...This year, it won a Design Guild Mark from the Furniture Makers’ Company. The shade of the Raise floor lamp is cast in Jesmonite, a gypsum and resin amalgam that can mimic concrete or stone....
...Between 2000 and 2015, Chinese companies registered more than 1,000 African manufacturing proposals with the commerce ministry in glass, recycled steel, ceramics, gypsum board, textiles, dying, tanneries...
...That big threat to its business has seen the company stop dragging its heels and devise a solution from gypsum — the soft mineral used for fertilisers and plasterboard....
...The gypsum in drywall decomposes into hydrogen sulphide gas. It’s an expensive problem; Houston officials said this week it will cost at least $200m to dispose of 8m cubic yards of storm debris....
...Until recently the primary destination for the company’s products has been bespoke interiors....
...Professor Boston and colleagues extracted samples from the cave surface and from water-filled inclusions within the giant gypsum crystals....
...Bianchi sees history and tradition as very important, but no less so than innovation because scagliola is still relatively unknown outside Italy, and the company’s marketplace has changed....
...The state has also attempted to exploit other minerals such as rare earths, phosphate, salt, gypsum, zinc, uranium and industrial minerals to add to its iron ore and gold staple....
...A heavy rainfall would dissolve the valley’s gypsum-and-clay shapes entirely, but fortunately it has never rained....
...Last year Lone Star acquired a gypsum wallboard making business from Lafarge, the world’s biggest cement maker....
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