Germany’s Chancellor plans lithium deal with Serbia after Rio ruling
Olaf Scholz plans to visit Serbia this week to secure supplies of lithium that are critical for the nation’s energy transition and auto industry.
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Aker Wirth has received an order from Saudi Arabia to supply 11 piston-diaphragm pumps to Ma’aden Bauxite & Alumina Co for its refinery project. Eight pumps will be used as tube digester pumps in the Bayer process, and will pump the bauxite ore at a temperature of around 100°C. Three pumps will pump red mud to the disposal site, again at a temperature of around 100°C. Red mud is the waste product generated during digestion of bauxite. Each pump is driven by a 1,500-kW motor and has a total weight of some 105 t. (more…)
