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IMA-Europe in a nutshell
KPC-Europe – EUROFEL
Joint Annual Meeting
3 June 2015
Non-Metallic resources:
Challenges and opportunities
IMA - Europe
KPC
Eurotalc
talc
Clays
Kaolin
EBA
Eurosil
Borates
Silica
CCA
Calcium
carbonate
Dolomite
Didier Jans
Industrial Minerals Association (IMA-Europe)
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An EU wealth of non-metallic minerals resources
EUBA
Bentonite
Eurofel
IDPA
Diatomite
Feldspar
ESMA
Eula
Eula
Lime
Lime
Magnesite,
Sepiolite
vermiculite
Mica
24 EU Member States + Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and
Ukraine
500 companies: i.e. 685 mines & quarries, 750 plants
42,500 employees
180 million tpa
EUR 10 billion turnover
Non-energy / Non-metallic
more: http://www.ima-europe.eu
Industrial minerals – our world is made of them!
• Diversified Geology
• Know-how extraction and
processing
• Infrastructure and logistics
• Global leaders in/from
Europe
• Strong value chains
Industrial minerals are vital to society,
supplying everyday products.
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Industrial minerals at the basis of manufacturing industry
From commodities to specialties
GLASS: up to 100% minerals
PAINT: 50% of minerals
CERAMICS:
up to 100% minerals
PAPER up to 50% minerals
And many more …
HOUSE: up to 150
tonnes of minerals
CAR: up to 100-150 kg of minerals in
rubber, plastics, glass, casting
Even the most virtual economic activities are mineral-based
Not only because IT equipment and
networks are mineral-dependent …
Something
to buy
Purchasing
power
Consumer
• Traditionally, only filler material / commodities
• Evolution to material science with tight specifications and
requirements in close link with downstream industry innovation
• Chemical and physical characteristics are pivotal
• Quality of ore-body and processing
• Innovative processing
Industrial minerals – our
world
is made
of them!effect
A Huge
economic
multiplying
Sector
% IM
IM
Turnover
Employ
10
(billion)
40
(000)
Paper
50
75
185
Glass
100
20
105
Paint
50
17
120
Ceramics
100
30
200
…
An ultimate mineral valuechain transformation
Goods or services
Biotic or abiotic raw materials
Plastics, Gas and water treatments, adhesives,
Fiberglass, Soil, chemistry, steel, foundry,
filtration, food, detergents, energy, automotive,
aerospace, machinery, etc.
Life begins …
when leaving the mineral plant …
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Minerals & their multiplying effect …
A Strong wake up
• EU Economy needs a strong industry
• Economy Vulnerability to raw materials
http://www.mineralproducts.org/documents/CBI_UK_Mineral_Extraction_Industry_2016.pdf
The EU Industrial Policy …
COM (2005) 0474
Strengthen EU manufacturing
COM (2008) 0397
Sustainable consumption and production
COM (2008) 0699
Raw Materials Initiative
COM (2009) 512
Strategy Key enabling technologies
COM (2010) 2020
Europe 2020 strategy
COM (2010) 0614
Industrial policy for globalization era
COM (2011) 0021
Resource efficient Europe
COM (2011) 0571
Roadmap to resource efficient Europe
COM (2011) 0642
Reinforcing competitiveness
COM (2012) 0582
Stronger industry for growth and recovery
COM (2014) 0014
For an EU Industrial renaissance
COM (2014) 903
An investment plan for EU
COM (2015) 0614
Action plan circular economy
Better Regulation
• One of the main priorities of the Commission
• Not de-regulation but reduce unnecessary
regulatory burdens and improve business
conditions
“The regulatory framework needs to be
simple, clear, practicable, stable to
incentivize investments with a longer
horizon” (COM 2014 903)
“Efforts to reduce administrative burden and
simplify regulations remain slow and uneven
…” (COM 2014 903)
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Permitting process in reality …
Key phases of developing a quarry / mine
Exploration
(0-5 years)
Area selection for prospection
Regional studies
Target Selection
Target scale studies
Permitting
(5-15 years)
Resource evaluation drilling, exploration
& feasibility studies
Change spatial land planning
Hot spots for
access to land
Obtain necessary permits
Life cycle stages
of a mine
(> 15 years)
Mining Activity
Internal industry challenges
• Cycles demand / supply / price dynamic
• New projects are challenging when price raw mat
are low / economic sustainability
• Global capacity / Capacity loss risk in EU
• Leakage of downstream production
• Short-term / long-term downstream interest
• Until next demand peak …
• Tangible raw material mineral policy
• Regulatory pressure / uncertainty adds to
economic complexity
Commissioning of mine building permit
Closure of a mine
Rehabilitation & monitoring
Some possible paths to the Future …
Working towards a favorable environment
• What an investor/business operator is
looking for
• Predictability in time and costs
• Competitive taxation and energy prices
• Stability / Rules at the time-scale of the
extractive projects
• Sustained Political attention
• Visionary policies enforceable beyond the
election cycle
• Tangible importance
• Support to innovation / to existing assets
• Explore other tools
• Facilitate access
• Tax incentives, …
Conclusions
• The EU has a wealth of non-metallic mineral resources
• Industrial minerals have an economic multiplying
effect:
• in manufacturing and downstream industries
• even the most virtual economic activities are
mineral-based
• Political support needed to creating the right
framework conditions for the European mineral raw
materials sector to continue to deliver on Europe’s
competitiveness and innovation capacity.
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IMA-Europe
For further information:
Dr Didier Jans
Director General
IMA-Europe
[email protected]
www.ima-europe.eu
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