This Week’s Market Buzz

Despite concerns about falling demand for frac sand in light of the plunge in oil prices, state officials say they haven’t noticed any slowing of mining activity in Wisconsin, according to the Cap Times. Deb Dix of the Department of Natural Resources, the agency lead on industrial sand mining, said companies are continuing to press forward. “I have not seen…

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Unimin Selects IFS Applications to Improve Operational Efficiencies

Global fracking supplier IFS Applications, said that Unimin Corp., North America’s largest supplier of frac sand, has chosen the company to assist in optimizing its supply chain and global operations. Unimin has 46 mining and mineral processing sites and 11 offices across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. To improve operational efficiencies, the company needed greater real-time visibility into its supply…

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