Executive Interviews

Gejiu Qiandao Metal Co., Ltd., established in June 2017 and located in Gejiu City, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, is a large company which integrates non-ferrous metal trade and processing. The company mainly purchases tin raw materials and has in-depth cooperation with domestic and foreign mineral processing enterprises. The supply of goods mainly comes from domestic and many overseas countries. After several years of efforts, the company has become a leader in the industry and occupies an important position in the tin industry.

Jiangxi Jinfeng Metal Products Co. Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jinfei Holding Group. Jinfei Holding Group Co., Ltd., founded in 1959, was a key enterprise of the Ministry of Machinery and the Ministry of Light Industry. After more than 20 years of leapfrog development since the restructuring in 1998, the company formed an industrial pattern that driven by production of aluminum wheels and automotive structural parts of aluminum alloy and that supported by agricultural machinery, light alloy materials and intelligent equipment through a series of measures such as technological transformation and product structure adjustment. In April 2017, the company was listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Sichuan Yinhe Chemical Co., Ltd., is located in Mianyang Science and Technology Park. The company's business covers R & D and production of chromium chemical, chemical engineering of vitamin series and sulfuric acid series, as well as international trading. With the title of National Technology Innovation Demonstration Enterprise, the company, on basis of its strong scientific innovation capability and advanced core technology, aims at building a world-leading chromium salt chemical industry.

Established in 2002, Deyang Hongyuan Glass Material & Accessories Co. is the first company that consumes cerium oxide 99.9%min to produce cerium oxide 99.9%min glass clarifying agent in Sichuan province. With an annual production capacity of 2,500t, the company expects to produce around 1,200t of glass clarifying agent in 2022, without much change YoY.

Founded in 2007, Wuxi JISCO Bochuang Steel Co., Ltd.is a sales company registered by Gansu JISCO Hongxing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The company is a sales company established to sellstainless steel products of JISCO in East China with an annual sales of about 500,000tons of stainless steel products, accounting for 60-70% of the total sales of stainless steel of JISCO.

Shanxi Fuhengdi Metal Materials Co., Ltd., formerly known as Wenxi County Shengfu Magnesium Powder Factory, was established in August 2007 and is located in Xidu Village, Yangyu Township, Wenxi County, Shanxi Province. Fuhengdi, with independent management and import&export rights, has become a professional magnesium powder producer with large production scale and wide varieties. With an annual production capacity of 15,000t for magnesium powder products, including magnesium powder, magnesium granule, magnesium chips and passivated magnesium granule, Fuhengdi produced about 9,800t of the metal in 2021. In domestic market, Fuhengdi mainly sells their products to steel mills such as Taiyuan Steel, Handan Steel, Tangshan Steel, Wuhan Steel, and also to many pharmaceutical companies. The company also exports to many foreign countries, such as Japan, Canada, Netherlands, etc. They achieved the annual domestic sales of RMB220million and the foreign income of around USD5million in 2021.

Located at No. 5, Road 4A, Bien Hoa 2 Industrial Park, Long Binh Tan Ward, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, Saigon Steel Service And Processing Co., Ltd. (SGC) specializes in steel forging, stamping and roll-forming. Saigon Steel Service And Processing Co., Ltd. (SGC) imports steel from SMI, NSC, Nisshin Steel, Kobe Steel, Tokyo Steel, CSC, and so on. Besides, the company supplies processing service according to customers' requirements.

Shaoguan Kaidi Technology Development Co. was founded in 1996, and is located in Shaoguan, China, the hometown of minor metals. The company is a private high-tech enterprise that is engaged in the research and production of minor metals such as germanium, indium and gallium, indium nano powder materials and low melting point alloy materials. They have several production lines of indium ingot 99.995%min with a production capacity of 300tpy, ITO powder, indium oxide, low-melting alloys. In 2003, the company was awarded the title of "High-tech R & D Enterprise of Indium metal and Nano Products" by Bureau of Science and Technology of Shaoguan City. The company attaches great attention to high-tech talents and has hydrometallurgy, fine chemical and other equipment, and internal quality control and research and development institutions. Over the past years, relying on advanced technology and reliable quality, their products are well received by both domestic and overseas customers.

Founded in 1991, Zhuzhou Dingli Industrial Co.,Ltd. is located in Zhuzhou City, Hunan province which is the hometown of non-ferrous metals with convenient transportation. On basis of company philosophy of “to be firmly-grounded, industry-lead, and credit-first”, the company pays great attention to science and technology and makes great efforts to focus on the research and development of high and new technology, heading for healthy and steady development of enterprise normalization, product seriation, and management talents.

As a sub-group of New Tianjin Steel Group, New Tianjin Steel Decai Technology Group Co is an important production base of fine steel sheet and the largest metal product industry base in North China. It has six wholly owned subsidiaries, including Tianjin New Steel CRC Co., Tianjin Rolling-one Steel Co., Tianjin Metallurgical Group Tiancai Science and Technology Development Co., Tianjin New Steel Zhongxingshengda Co., Tianjin New Steel Wire Cable Co., Tianjin Decai Supply Chain Co.

Tianjin Hongshengyuan Iron and Steel Co. acts as a highly specialized and refined steel supplier. The company mainly deals with flat steel, cooperating with customers from steel structure, pipe making, automobiles, household appliances, hardware equipment, cold rolling and other industries.

Guangxi Deyuan Aluminum Co., Ltd., established on January 10, 2020, is a nonferrous metal group company integrating production and logistics. Adhering to the purpose of "acting with virtue and being practical for far-reaching" and relying on the abundant aluminum resources in Pingguo, Guangxi, the company focuses on R&D on melting technology, processing, and production of aluminum alloy bar. By reasonable layouts in industries in nonferrous metals, aluminum wire and cable, and secondary aluminum, accompanying with integrative development of commercial service, the company aims to boost the metal manufacturing industry of Pingguo to become stronger and bigger.

Founded in 1988, Shanxi Yinguang Huasheng Magnesium Co. is a magnesium company integrating dolomite mining, magnesium smelting, and deep processing of magnesium alloy, semi-continuous bars, extruded profiles, automotive die castings, plates, press forging, and sand castings. It is the vice president unit of Magnesium Branch of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, the national magnesium & magnesium alloy industrial base company and the national key high-tech enterprise. Yinguang owns two national technology innovation platforms, which are National Enterprise Technology Center and National-Local Joint Engineering Center.

Tremond Metals is a trading company based in New York and established in 1993. Together with its associated company Great Metals Corp, the company is mainly focusing on tradings of raw materials with steel mills, including ferroalloys, especially ferrosilicon and manganese alloys, manganese ore, Brazilian copper ore, manganese metal, as well as minor metals, coke and other carbon products.

Aclara Resources (ARA.TO) is a company listed in the Toronto Stock Exchange. As the subsidiary of Hochschild Mining, the company focuses on the development of its Penco rare earth project in Chile. With a mining life of more than 10 years, Penco rare earth project's content of dysprosium and terbium reaches 5.5% of TREO. The company aims to produce clean rare earth in order to become a leading supplier of choice for clean-tech companies and technologies integral to green energy.

Established in December of 2010 and listed in NEEQ in November of 2017, Rezel Catalysts Corporation focuses on the R&D, production and sales of all kinds of oil refining catalysts and owns more than 50 patents, integrated R&D, quality control and technology service systems. With a current annual production capacity of 30,000t of FCC catalysts, the company produced approximately 20,000t of catalysts in 2021 and aims to enlarge their production capacity and outputs into 70,000t and 40,000t respectively in 2022.

Ghana Bauxite Company (“GBC”) has been operating in Awaso, Ghana since 1940 and producing premium bauxite with Al2O3 52%min and SiO2 1.5%max. Over the past decade, GBC has shipped 1.2 million tons per annum on average. The company is expanding its its production capacity to its target of 2.5 million tons per annum. The bulk terminal of Takoradi Port is expected to improve its loading and shipping capacity from 70,000t to over 150,000t in the second half of this year, when the cape size vessels could berth directly

Jiangxi Xinsteel Nanfang New Material Co., Ltd. is a state-owned holding company jointly established by Xinyu Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited. It is one of the few enterprises in China that have achieved full coverage of non-grain oriented electrical steel products and have the production capacity of thin specifications and high grades of non-grain oriented electrical steel products. The annual output of non-grain oriented electrical steel reaches 800,000 tons.

Kali Minyuan Manganese Industry Co., located in Kaili Lushan Circular Economy Development Zone, covers an area of 150 mu. The company was founded in January 2011 with a total investment of 430 million yuan, including 150 million yuan on the first phase and 280 million yuan on the second phase. The company has 5 technical personnel and 10 graduates from colleges and universities. The founder has been engaged in the operation of silicomanganese alloy for a long time, and has established a reliable, smooth and stable supply and demand marketing network system in China.

Zhejiang Qixin Alloy Material Co. established in 2013, is a large joint-stock company integrating production, supply and sales. With a registered capital of 3.28 billion yuan, the company focuses on the production of magnesium ingot and magnesium alloy, and the annual capacity of magnesium ingot could reach about 80,000t. Qixin Alloy plays as the vice president of "Magnesium Branch of China Non-ferrous Metals Industry Association". Its subordinate companies, Sun Magnesium, Jinsheng Magnesium and Jinshi Magnesium are all "national high-tech enterprises". Meanwhile, Sun Magnesium is awarded the "National Green Factory".

Founded in 1992, Jiangsu Romin Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise. It is located in Xinghua, Jiangsu province and mainly produces spring wire, cold-drawn wire, annealing wire, welding wire, stainless bar, grinding stainless bar and so on, owning an annual production capacity of 150,000t. It has got ISO9001 and SGS quality system certification.

Established in 1996, Shandong Lubei Chemical Co., Ltd has more than 1,000 employees, 4.1 billion yuan of assets, and an annual production capacity of more than 260,000 tons of titanium dioxide by its subsidiary. Main products are rutile titanium dioxide, chloride titanium dioxide, nanometer titanium dioxide, chemical fibre titanium dioxide, paint titanium dioxide, plastic titanium dioxide, paper titanium dioxide, etc. The company's products have excellent high whiteness, high gloss, hiding power, easy dispersion, decoloring force, blue phase and weather resistance, and are widely used in paintings, coatings, plastics, masterbatch, rubber, and other areas of downstream industries.

Registered in Hong Kong in 2013, Sinomaterial International Co., Ltd. is a China-based company majoring in steel imports & exports and international trading. The company mainly deals with HRC, steel plate, full hard CRC, CRC, GI, GL, PPGI, wire rod, rebar, section steel, round steel bar, square steel and steel billet, with the yearly trading volume of around 500,000t.

Founded in 1989, Guihe Metal Co., Ltd. is a major private enterprise that specialized in producing zinc die-casting alloys. The company is located in Lishui Town, Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province. The company mainly provides specific models of zinc alloy, Zamak-3, # ZznAl4Y 5 and #ZznAl4Cu1Y. With a total area of 60,000 square meters for industrial zone and modern production equipment, which has an annual output of 100,000 tons, the company ranks top in Guangdong Province.

HC Semitek Corporation （“HC”）, established in 2005, is a leading enterprise of semiconductor technology with major production bases in Zhangjiagang, Yiwu, and Yuxi. After more than ten years of development, HC becomes the second-largest LED chip supplier and a leading supplier of LED chips for displays in China. The company acquired Yunnan Crystal in 2015, integrating the resources of the upstream industries of LED.

Aili Renewable Resources (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., established on November 3, 2016, is located in Room 806A, Binhai China Trade Center, east of Binhai Road, China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The company focuses on civil waste material recycling, productive waste metal recycling, renewable resource technology development, and sales of building materials, metal materials, metal products, auto parts and rubber and plastic products.

Jinzhou Hongding Metal Material Co. professionally produces ferrovanadium 50%min and 80%min by outside furnace process. With an annual production capacity of 1,500t, they have complete sales channels both in domestic and overseas markets. With advanced and mature production technology, they can meet any strict requirements of foreign and domestic customers.

Metal Partner was established in 1992. The company’s activities focus on the sourcing of ferroalloys globally. With offices in Europe, Middle East and South Africa and assigned agents in London, Moscow, Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York — Metal Partner is one of the leading global marketers of ferrochrome.

Chengde Quanli Industry & Trade Group Co., founded in June of 2005, focuses on production of aluminum fluoride, hydrofluoric acid, fluorspar and related inorganic fluoride salt products, in relation to general chemical fluoride products, electronic materials, optical glass materials and over 100 highly refined inorganic fluoride salts including rare earth fluoride, potassium fluoride, potassium bifluoride, sodium fluoride, ammonium bifluoride, calcium fluoride, magnesium fluoride, strontium fluoride, barium fluoride and metaphosphate, etc., focusing on sales in Chinese domestic market and exports to the U.S., Southeast Asian countries, Japan, South Korea and Russia.

Hainan Wensheng Zr&Ti Industry Co., Ltd (Wensheng Zr&Ti) is the parent company of Fujian Wensheng Mining Co., Ltd and Fangchenggang Wensheng Mining Co., Ltd. Wensehng Zr&Ti is one of the largest companies in China mainly supplying zircon sand, Titanium concentrate Ore, rutile. Wensheng's raw material was mainly imported from major international suppliers, and it's renowned for the good quality and punctual delivery in China for various zircon sand, titanium concentrate ore, rutile, monazite, kyanite, garnet etc.

Founded in 2012, Zhejiang Sheensen Magnetics Technology Co., Ltd. decided to invest RMB200 million to enlarge its production capacity at the beginning of August 2018 and started the construction of new workshop in August 2018. The company owns an annual production capacity of 3,500t at present. It mainly distributes its NdFeB magnet to clients from automotive, industrial automation field and compressor industries now.

Fugu Xintian Magnesium Alloy Co., Ltd. was established in 2008. The plant is located in the hinterland of Shenfu coalfield development zone, the national energy heavy chemical base, Gaoshan charcoal industrial concentration area, Xinmin town, Fugu county. With a total investment of RMB800 million, the company reaches an annual output of 50,000t of magnesium ingot, 40,000t of ferrosilicon, and 250,000t of clean carbon.

Established in 2006, Jinzhou Guangda Ferroalloy Co., Ltd (Jinzhou Guangda) is a major ferrovanadium,vanadium-aluminum alloy and other intermediate base alloy professional producer in Northeast China. With an annual production capacity of 3,000t for ferrovanadium and 500t for vanadium-aluminum alloy, the company sells their vanadium products to domestic major steel mills and also exports to about 20 countries and regions over the world.

As an important cold rolled sheet production base and the only full-process stainless steel production enterprise in Shandong province, Shandong Taishan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (Taishan Steel) is the most competitive 400-series stainless steel production base in China, the world's top 100 iron and steel enterprises, China's top 500 enterprises and Shandong Stainless Steel Industry Association president unit. The registered capital of the company reaches 3 billion yuan and there are more than 8,200 employees, of which there are 1,312 party members.

CSMET Group, established in 2003, focuses on the R&D, production and sales of cast aluminum alloy ingot, including aluminum ingot, aluminum liquid and aluminum bar. The group has one equipment company and two hazardous goods transportation companies and has established aluminum liquid direct supply bases in Shanghai, Suzhou, Changshu, Chongqing, Henan, Huizhou and Baotou at present. In addition to the manufacturing side, CSMET adheres to driving the industry reform with technology, and cooperates with Alcoa on patented new materials to provide high-quality aluminum alloy products for many new car manufacturers and Huawei and other communication enterprises through the leading research and development of new aluminum alloy materials with high toughness and high thermal conductivity, which replace steel with aluminum.

Minhe Tianli Silicon Co. Ltd was established in Oct 2006 with the registered capital of RMB280 million (USD40 million). The company is located in Xiachuankou Industrial zone, Minhe County, Qinghai province. The company mainly has five furnaces of 22,000kVA and the encrypted dust removal system and feedstock self-feeding facility. Their annual capacity could reach over 150,000t, and they have good credibility among clients for their good quality of ferrosilicon 72%min and 75%min.

Mofeng Enterprise is invested by Shenzhen Mofeng Investment Co., Ltd., and integrated the resources of Sing Horn which was used to be the main manufacturer of chrome series including chrome metal and chrome salt. Mofeng Enterprise is located in Jinzhou, Liaoning province and is a professional producer of chrome metal, high purity chrome metal and chrome metal powder.

Arafura Resources Limited is devoting to develop their 100% owned NdPr Project in the Northern Territory of Australia. Nolans deposit owns a mining life of no less than 33 years and is rich at NdPr and owns a highly desirable rare earths mix, and contains 56 million tons of mineral resources at an average grade of 2.6% rare earth oxides (REO) and 26.4% PrNd. Rare earths are primarily hosted in the calcium phosphate mineral apatite, and the company is planning to produce around 4,400 tpa of PrNd oxide, 600 tpa of SEG-HRE (middle-heavy rare earth) carbonate, 8,380 tpa of cerium hydroxide, and 135,800 tpa of fertilizer-grade (54% P2O5) phosphoric acid for sale. The company aim to start the commercial production in 2024.

Wuhan Wallpark Silicon Materials Co. was founded in 2004 and is a professional group company dedicated to high quality silicon material products. With its wholly-owned subsidiary "Wuhan Huabai Sunshine Silicon Materials Co." as the core, the group has carefully built a comprehensive silicon powder processing base integrating research and development, inspection and analysis, production and processing, and warehousing and logistics, which can guarantee the supply of 50,000 tons of high-quality main raw materials - silicon metal lumps and silicon powder for various silicon manufacturers annually. In the nearly 20 years of close cooperation with many famous Japanese manufacturers, the group has been praised for its excellent quality, stable supply ability and comprehensive performance ability, and has been awarded the "Special Silicon Material Supplier" and has established its status as the main supplier and established a good brand image.

Formed in 2014 as a joint venture founded by Jiangxi TungstenHolding Group and the German company H.C. Starck (HCS), HCS Jiangwu Special Tungsten(Ganzhou) Co., Ltd. is a globally leading provider of high performance powder and metal products. It focuses upon providing high-quality tungsten products to the Chinese market and client-oriented research and innovation strategy is the main driving force for its business development. The company owns an annual production capacity of 3,500t of tungsten metal powder at present.

Established in 2001, Tangshan Ganglu Iron and Steel Co. focuses on energy conservation and consumption reduction to improve economic efficiency; strengthens basic management to accelerate the pace of enterprise construction; uses technological advancement to enhance the market competitiveness of enterprise. In 2020, Tangshan Ganglu Iron and Steel Co. ranked first among the B-level enterprises in the environmental performance rating of Tangshan.

As the biggest NdPr producer outside China, Lynas Rare Earths Ltd. produces rare earth concentrate and oxides in Mt Weld in Western Australia and Lynas Advanced Materials Plant in Kuantan, Malaysia respectively. Lynas Rare Earths signed an MOU with Blue Line Corporation in May 2019 and aimed at setting up a new heavy rare earth separation facility in Hondo, Texas. In July 2020, they signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defence (DoD). The phase I funding provided by the DoD will allow Lynas and Blue Line Corporationto complete a detailed market and strategy study and complete detailed planning and design work for the construction of a heavy rare earth separation facility.The company's ready for sales volume of total rare earth oxides and PrNd oxide over the past three quarters of 2021 reached 15,761t and 5,461t respectively, with increases of 8% and 17% YoY.