Dubrovnik hosted this years’ Mineral Recycling Forum, an annual conference that aims to bring together the leading world players to examine and discuss the latest developments in recycling industrial minerals from a range of waste sources, including mine waste, refractories, slags, ash, batteries, etc.
More than ever, the fast-evolving mineral recycling sector has an essential and increasing role to play as mineral suppliers, consuming markets, and governments, undergo a major rethink on strategic mineral sourcing and evaluate alternatives for a sustainable future in mineral use. That is why IMFORMED - Industrial Mineral & Forum Research, based in the UK, specialises in organising high profile conferences and market research in specific sectors of the industrial minerals industry, such as Mineral Recycling Forum. They started the event in 2016, with about 50 attendees, and it has grown since.
The Mineral Recycling Forum 2024 was held in the beautiful city of Dubrovnik and attracted more delegates than ever. The Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik Hotel, the venue of the event, thus hosted around 120 participants from all over the world.
The event featured many leading experts in their field. Among them was Dr Florian Anderhuber Director of Energy and Climate at Euromines, the EU's leading mining trade association, Werner Odreitz the CEO of REF Minerals, Nelson White the CEO of Glenn Hunter & Associates Glenn and Masakazu Iida, the General Manager of Research Centre at Shinagawa - all leading pioneers in refractory recycling in Europe, USA, and Japan. The conference is regularly utilised by leading companies to showcase latest innovations and progress and to make announcements on major mergers and acquisitions. Thus, Alexander Leitner the Recycling Technology & Innovation Specialist at RHI Magnesita from Austria and Lucas Zimmermann the Head of Project Management at MIRECO from Germany, also took the stage.
Part of the attraction of the conference was that the Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik Hotel is next to the Old City of Dubrovnik. So, the delegates had the opportunity to get to know the historic Old City. On the second day, a drinks and dinner reception were organized on board the Karaka - a replica of a 16th century trade ship, which sailed the Adriatic for three hours, facilitating a very convivial networking reception for delegates with an impressive view of the centuries-old walls of Dubrovnik.
