Asian Metal visits Tianjin Aoli Mineral and Tianjin Botian Chemical

David Li, general manger of ferroalloys department of Asian Metal, and Fairy Feng, titanium market analyst of Asian Metal visited Tianjin Aoli Mineral Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Botian Chemical Co., Ltd. on 21st February 2013, and were welcomed by the two enterprises.

On the morning of 21st February 2013, Asian Metal visited Tianjin Aoli Mineral Co., Ltd. and were welcomed by Wang Baoping, the general manager and Zhang Peng, the vice-general manager of the company.

Tianjin Aoli Mining Co., Ltd. is one of the largest ilmenite sand, rutile sand, zircon sand and monazite importers and processing manufacturers in China. The company imports around 40,000mt of ilmenite sand,6,000mt of rutile sand, 6,000mt of zircon sand and 800mt of monazite each month. Besides titanium import business, the company also focuses on the production of high titanium slag, reduced ilmenite and pigment.

Mr. Wang introduced that they mainly import titanium ilmenite from Australia and India, and then sell to domestic consumers. They arranged two new production lines for reduced ilmenite and welding rod from last year, and the project of reduced ilmenite will be put into production in March. He said that after the two production lines are put into the production, they would have a chain of titanium ilmenite-reduced ilmenite-welding rod, which will expand their business greatly. Asian Metal will hold World Titanium Forum in Haikou, Hainan, China on March 25-26th, 2013, and Mr. Wang claimed that he will attend it.

On the afternoon of 21st February 2013, Asian Metal visited Tianjin Botian Chemical Co., Ltd. and were welcomed by Wang Haitao, the general manager, Li Gang, assistant of minister of purchasing department, Sun Jie and Li Hui, section chief of purchasing department, Yang Qiang, minister of supply department.

The company is one of the first titanium tetrachloride producers in China , and its price and output play an important role in domestic titanium tetrachloride market. Sun Jie, the section chief of purchasing department expressed that they need to buy about 1,800tpm of high titanium slag as the raw material and above 80% of titanium tetrachloride is sold) to titanium sponge producers. About the upcoming Titanium Forum in Haikou on March 25-26th, the company will attend it.