8th Antimony Forum

As the founder of Luoyang Hai Hui New Material Co., Ltd., Ms.Hairong Geng was awarded the titles of 2019 Jiaxing Talent and Canadian Woman of Exception. Under her leadership since 2000 when she started to work as the President of the company, the company witnesses fast development of its "Matt" brand ethylene glycol antimony and has been certificated as a High-tech Enterprise, a National Small and Medium-sized Sci-tech Enterprise, and a Henan Provincial High-quality Small and Medium-sized Enterprise with professional, competitive, distinctive and original technologies and products. The company owns Henan Polyester Catalyst EngineeringTechnology Research Institute and Luoyang Polyester Catalyst Enterprise R&DCenter to help the company form its product development system focusing upon market competition and enterprise development. Clinging to environmental protection concepts of green enterprises and blue China, Ms. Geng established Shanghai Hehui Eco-environmental Technology Co., Ltd. (a High-Tech Enterprise) in 2015 and Zhejiang Hehui Environmental Technology Co., Ltd. in 2016, and also set up the Zhejiang PhD workstation in the company in 2021. After years of work and exploration, Hehui Environmental Technology is expanding its footprint in the environmental protection industry and is confident in achieving its China dream of blue and circular economy.

Founded in 2000 and located in the Gili Technology Park of Luoyang National New & High Tech Industry Development Zone, Luoyang Hai Hui New Material Co., Ltd. is dedicated to research, development and production of antimony-related products, and owns a multi-tier antimony product system featuring ethylene glycol antimony, antimony trioxide, glass refining agent and sodium antimonite. After over twenty years of development, the company has grown into a catalyst enterprise with businesses covering research, production, selling and post-selling service, as well as one of the major ethylene glycol antimony suppliers in China.

Senior Engineer, graduated from the School of Materials Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology in 2008 with a Ph.D. in materials science, and obtained a postdoctor in the postdoctoral research station of Sun Yat-sen University in 2014. He joined Kingfa Science and Technology Co., Ltd. in 2008 and is now the General Manager of styrene product line of Jinfa Technology Co., Ltd., responsible for the R&D, production and operation of styrene modified composites of the company. Mr. Jinfeng Fu has been engaged in the scientific research and development, technical breakthrough, market development and technical services of relevant flame retardant products for a long time, and has a deep research on the flame retardant mechanism, formula design, performance characterization, environmental protection regulations and product application of flame retardant materials. In 2014, he won the second prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Guangdong Province, applied for more than 40 national invention patents, and published more than 30 theses, including 5 in SCI.

Kingfa Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kingfa") is a new material enterprise focusing on the scientific research, production, sales and service of high-performance new materials and providing new material solutions for creating a safer, more comfortable and convenient human life. Founded in 1993 and listed in 2004, Kingfa is headquartered in Guangzhou Science City, with 46 subsidiaries and R&D and production bases in South Asia, North America, Europe and other overseas regions. Kingfa's products are mainly developed through independent innovation, covering six categories of independent intellectual property products including modified plastics, fully biodegradable plastics, special engineering plastics, carbon fiber and composite materials, light hydrocarbon and hydrogen energy and medical and health polymer materials. Kingfa exports its materials to more than 130 countries and regions in the world for the good environmental friendliness and excellent performance, providing services for more than 1,000 well-known enterprises around the world. Among them, the modified plastic segment has an annual production capacity of 2 million tons of modified plastic, with more than 2,000 brands of more than 60 varieties in 5 series, including flame retardant resin, reinforced and toughened resin, plastic alloy, functional masterbatch and biodegradable plastic. The products are widely used in automobile, home appliances, OA equipment, IT, communications, electronics, electrical appliances, building materials, lighting and other industries.

with a master's degree in business management from Beihang University in 2007, joined China Minmetals Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd. in the same year. Having successively served as the Manager of the North American Market in Antimony Business Department of China Minmetals Non-ferrous Metals, the General Manager Assistant of Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co., Ltd. & General Manager of Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Antimony Import and Export Company, the General Manager of Antimony Business Department under China Minmetals Rare Earth Group, he is now the General Manager of Antimony Business Department of Hunan Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co., Ltd.

Beijing Golden Antimony Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Beijing Antimony) is the wholly-owned subsidiaries of Hunan Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co., Ltd., which is under direct management from China Minerals Corporation. As the global company focusing on import & export business of antimony products and overseas antimony resource exploitation, Beijing Antimony mainly engages in export of antimony ingot and antimony trioxide, import of antimony concentrate, etc. With an annual trade volume of over 15,000t of antimony products, the company's sales network covers the developed economies and emerging regions over the world. The company owns an excellent international marketing team to provide first-rate antimony products and services to hundreds of clients from more than 50 countries including USA, France, Belgium, Japan, South Korea, India and Russia.

Under the leadership of Hunan Nonferrous Holding Group, Beijing Antimony proactively implements the national development strategy of Going Out and constantly makes overseas layout. With an antimony mine under operation in Canada now, the company has conducted antimony resource exploitation in many countries to make contributions to ensuring the supply of scarce strategic metal resources in China.

Xia Zhao joined Shenzen Jiefu Corporation in November 2000 and was responsible for overseas sales of antimony products. In 2011, she served as the Deputy Managing Director of Jiefu Mining Investment Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Jiefu Corporation. In 2012, after the antimony business restructuring between Jiefu Corporation and Dongfeng Antimony, she served as the General Manager of Guizhou Province Metals and Minerals I/E Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1993, Shenzhen Jiefu Corporation focuses on the business of new flame retardant, real estate development, and financial investment. After the hard work for nearly two decades, Jiefu Corporation has grown into a comprehensive group company with six wholly-owned subsidiaries and more than ten joint ventures home and abroad. As for the business related to new flame retardant materials, Jiefu Corporation mainly engages in the investment and development for mines as well as the smelting and deep-processing of antimony products. Its subsidiaries include Guizhou Dongfeng Antimony Co., Ltd., Guizhou Province Metals and Minerals I/E Co., Ltd. and Dongguan Jiefu Flame-Retarded Materials Co., Ltd. Jiefu Corporation has formed a full production-supply-sales antimony industry chain integrating mining, dressing, smelting, deep-processing and import & export. Carrying out standardized and delicacy management, Jiefu Corporation is able to directly sell its deep-processed products such as the antimony ingot, antimony trioxide, flame retardant and flame-retardant masterbatch with its own brand "Jiefu" to Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asian, Europe and America. With an annual output and sales of approximately 20,000t of antimony products, the company enjoys a good reputation in antimony market worldwide. Guizhou Province Metals and Minerals I/E Co., Ltd. is a state-owned trading company with a history of nearly 60 years and a permit for the export of antimony products acknowledged by China's Ministry of Commerce. It became a holding subsidiary of Dongfeng Antimony in 2012 after restructuring and is now an import-export platform for antimony products with the brand "Jiefu" under Jiefu Corporation. Guizhou Province Metals and Minerals mainly imports antimony concentrate and exports antimony ingot, antimony trioxide and flame-retardant masterbatch.

Jingchun Bu, a senior engineer of mining, serving as the Director and Vice President of Tibet Huayu Mining Corporation Limited, is responsible for the project construction, production and technical work of Huayu Mining. He also works as the Vice President of Qinghai Western Rare and Precious Metals Co., Ltd. and Qinghai Western Resource Co., Ltd. and concurrently serves as the Director of Hunan Taojiang Jiutong Antimony Co., Ltd. and Hunan Linwu Southern Mines Co., Ltd.; He used to be the Chairman (and General Manager) of Hunan Taojiang Jiutong Antimony Co., Ltd. With more than thirty years of experience in gold and non-ferrous metal industries, he is good at mining investment, mining project construction and mining enterprise management, etc.

Tibet Huayu Mining Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as Huayu Mining) was established in October 2002 with a registered capital of RMB555 million (USD87.8 million), and then was listed at Shanghai Stock Exchange (SH.601020) on March 16, 2016. By the end of 2021, the company owns total assets of RMB4.866 billion (USD769 million) with net assets reaching RMB3.36 billion (USD531 million). It now has about 360 employees, 3 branches, 8 subsidiaries and 2 joint ventures, and keeps resources of 118.5t of goal, 2,395t of silver, 425,000t of antimony, 878,000t of lead, 1,474,000t of zinc and 25,000t of copper.

Huayu Mining has two mines, Zhaxikang lead-zinc polymetallic mine of 600,000tpy in Lhünzê county of Tibet and Lawu copper-zinc mine of 78,000tpy in Damxung county, in production, which could produce 40,000t of lead, zinc, antimony, 60t of sliver and 1,500t of copper annually. The other two mines, Kangqiaoqi gold-antimony mine with an annual capacity of 1.5 million tons in Tajikistan and Nibao gold mine with an annual capacity of 660,000t in Pu'an county, Guizhou province, are under construction now. In addition, there are three mines in preparation, which are 300,000tpy Tigray gold mine in Ethiopia, 400,000tpy Keyue lead polymetallic mine in Lhünzê county, Lhoka city of Tibet and 400,000tpy Chagele copper-lead-zinc mine in Ngamring county, Rikaze city of Tibet. The main products include lead-antimony concentrate (sliver-contained), zinc concentrate, gold concentrate, gold-antimony concentrate and copper concentrate.

During the past 20 years, Huayu Mining has always adhered to the idea of "safe production and environmental protection, high efficiency and best quality" and achieved great development, with its production scale and economic performance coming out in front in Tibet. In 2017, it was commended as one of the "Top 100 non-state-owned enterprises in five types" by Tibet; In 2020, it was awarded as one of the "Top 20 private enterprises in employment" by Tibet; It was also rated as the major taxpayer and advanced enterprise in production safety for years. In 2020, Zhaxikang mine was recorded in the national green mine list.

Qunyi Liu, Associate Researcher, current Director of Basic Mineral Strategy Research Office, Research Center for Strategy of Global Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS) and China Geological Survey (CGS), mainly engaging in the study and research on resource allocation, industrial development, supply and demand of bulk minerals, including ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals and nonmetals in global and domestic markets, giving strategic recommendations and policy proposals to the state. He has led and participated in over 10 research projects, including geological survey project, NDRC strategic consulting project, State Reserve Bureau planning support project, Ministry of Science and Technology special project for international cooperation, Department of Natural Resources soft science program, etc. He also presided over multiple high-level strategic research reports on major national needs in recent years.

Junjie Liang, metallurgist, graduated from Central South University and currently works as a researcher at Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star's National Enterprise Technology Center, Vice Manager and Chief Engineer for Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star's antimony smelters, mainly engaging in antimony production and technical research. He has led and participated in over 10 research and development projects, including 2 national key research programs, and also presided over the formulation and revision of 3 national and industrial standards. As an industry expert, he has been granted 8 national invention patents and 4 ministerial and provincial-level scientific and technological progress awards.