9th Antimony Forum

Jiasheng Li has been engaging in mining, smelting and management in copper, lead, zinc, antimony, gold and silver fields since he started work with working experiences in several conglomerates.

Located in Lengshuijiang, Hunan, Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co., Ltd. is a major subsidiary of a Fortune Global 500 company, China Minmetals. As a large stated-owned antimony-gold company integrating mining, beneficiation, refining and scientific research, Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star owns annual production capacities of 600,000t of antimony ores, 30,000t of refined antimony, 40,000t of antimony products and 5t of gold.

Occupying 30% and 25% of market shares for antimony products nationwide and worldwide respectively, the company usually sells its antimony products to over 50 countries and regions including Japan, USA, Europe and has already become a major antimony miner, a key producer and supplier for antimony products in the world as well as an important R&D and export base for antimony products in China. Depending on large antimony resource reserves, high production capacities, high market shares, excellent product quality and high R&D ability, the company is called the Capital of Antimony in the World. The Twinkling Star brand of antimony products produced by the company has enjoyed great reputation in the industry for a long period of time with tittles of China Famous Trade Mark, China Famous Brand Product for high quality. Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star has also won several national honors, such as the China Export Quality and Safety Demonstration Enterprise, China Quality Trust AAA Enterprise. With high innovation ability, the company owns advanced mining, dressing and metallurgy technologies in antimony industry and has the only National Enterprise Technology Center, the National Accreditation Laboratory and the National Quality Inspection Center. It has been awarded the Top Ten Enterprises with Independent Innovation Ability in the National Industry, High-tech Enterprises in Hunan Province, becoming the main drafter of national and industrial standards for antimony. The company practices the concept of green development and has been selected as the National Green Mine. It is the Industrialization Demonstration Base of the National Heavy Metal Pollution Prevention and Control Technology Research Center. The antimony ingot, antimony trioxide and ethylene glycol antimony with the brand of Twinkling Star are rated as the Green Design Product in China.

Starting his career in 1994 and having been dedicated in the antimony industry for 29 years, Mr. Lv used to work as a factory director of Hunan Donggang Antimony Product Co., Ltd., general manager of Guigang Geleimeng Antimony Products Co., Ltd. He now is the Deputy General Manager of Guizhou Dongfeng Antimony Industry Co., Ltd. and Dongguan Jiefu Flame Retardant Materials Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1993, Shenzhen Jiefu Group has three major business sections including flame retardant materials, real estate development and financial investment. After thirty years of hard work, the company now is a comprehensive group enterprise owning six fully-owned subsidiary companies both in China and overseas as well as over ten JV subsidiaries.

Regarding the flame retardant material section, Shenzhen Jiefu Group is involved in mine investment and development, smelting and deep processing of antimony products. It has the following subsidiaries: Guizhou Dongfeng Antimony Industry Co., Ltd., Dongguan Jiefu Flame Retardant Materials Co., Ltd., Guizhou Metals and Minerals Import and Export Co., Ltd., Guizhou Dufeng Antimony Industry Co., Ltd., and Xinning Longkou Mine Development Co., Ltd. The group company has integrated antimony businesses covering mining, beneficiation, smelting, deep processing and import/export, has a complete industrial chain from production and supply to selling. The company clings to standardization and delicacy management, and has developed antimony products of its own Jiefu Brand, including antimony ingot, antimony trioxide, flame retardant, flame retardant masterbatch, etc., which are sold directly both in domestic and international markets, such as Europe, the U.S.A, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia. Its antimony products boast good reputation both in China and overseas with annual sales recording nearly 20,000 tons.

As a production company with a twenty-year history, Dongguan Jiefu Flame Retardant Materials Co., Ltd. has antimony products export license granted by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and is recognized as a high-tech company, an industrial enterprise above designated size, Guangdong enterprise with good credit. It is the fully owned subsidiary of Guizhou Dongfeng Antimony Industry Co., Ltd. and mainly is responsible for production and domestic selling of antimony products for the group company, including antimony ingot, antimony trioxide, flame retardant masterbatch, composite flame retardant, etc.

In 2011 Dongfei Wang started market exploitation for Chenzhou Brand ethylene glycol antimony; in 2013 he started selling of Chenzhou Brand antimony trioxide on end markets; and in 2014 he began to dabble in antimony ingot trade.

In March 2020, Dongfei Wang became a shareholder of Hunan Huaxing Nonferrous Metals Holding Co., Ltd., and in 2021 he leased Guizhou Mengkong Smelting Plant together with his partners to begin antimony ingot smelting. In August 2022, he initiated product transition process by producing one-step oxygen powder for sodium pyroantimonate manufacturers. His current company focuses upon antimony product trade and smelting and also sells Chenzhou Brand ethylene glycol antimony and some antimony trioxide as a distributor. With an annual turnover volume of around 5,000t of antimony products, his company always focuses upon upstream and downstream markets along the antimony industrial chain, insists on two frontiers, namely products and operation, and is active in taking part in market competition to find the best suitable position and chances for itself.

In November 2018, Mr. Tang was awarded as Excellent Entrepreneur by government of Nandan, Guangxi. In the same year, he worked as general engineer to lead the oxygen-rich jamesonite melting project and broke through core technical bottlenecks, achieving globally leading research results. In 2019, the project on key techniques and applications of Pb-Zn-Sb smelting slag utilization and treatment, in which Mr. Tang and China Tin Group cooperated, yielded substantial results. In 2022 he was awarded a number of patents for practical techniques and inventions. Mr. Tang has been dedicated in the nonferrous metal industry for over 30 years and has rich experience in ore dressing, smelting, smelting equipment upgrading and research.

Originating from a privately owned smelting plant Mr. Tang established in 2007, Nandan Zhenghua has grown into a professional nonferrous metals smelter focusing on lead and antimony smelting and resources recycling. In 2018 the company undertook technical upgrading and constructed worldly leading oxygen-rich melting bath Pb-Sb production lines and jamesonite industrial flow production lines. As a nationally leading technique, the smelting process helped the company be included in 2020 Guangxi industrial promotion program which encouraged development of enterprises with over RMB10 billion (USD1.44 billion) investment or production value and with emerging businesses or techniques. Having over 300 employees now, Nandan Zhenghua achieved production value of over RMB700 million (USD100 million) and tax payment of over RMB10 million (USD1.44 million) in 2022, expecting its production value to excel RMB1 billion (USD0.14 billion) in 2023. The company has existing annual production capacities of 10,000t of antimony ingot, 10,000t of antimony oxide, 10,000t of lead ingot, 60t of silver, 50,000t of sulfuric acid as well as recycling capacities on gold, copper, bismuth and zinc concentrates. The company has been sticking to the philosophy of safe production, circular economy, green development and win-win cooperation, has strategies on lead and antimony deep processing so as to serve the market with end products, and works hard to grow more competitive and excellent in the future.

Graduating in July 1990 from the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China with a master degree of engineering, Mr. Zhang began with his career life in the same month as a project engineer in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1995 he established STAR-BETTER as his start-up business.

As a professional polymer additive manufacturer, STAR-BETTER owns production base and R&D center respectively in Anhui and Guangdong. It has passed the ISO 9001 quality management and ISO 14001 environment management system certifications. Tapping its technical advantages in polymer additive applications, the company has provided over 300 kinds of additives to more than 3,000 clients both from and out of China over the past around 30 years. Its products are widely used in electronic appliances, automobiles, construction, packaging materials and other fields to meet the industry's strict standard.

STAR-BETTER sets up Polymer Additives Application R&D Center and actively carries out extensive cooperation with relevant institutions and industrial organiza?tions, such as Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing University of Chemical Industry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Flame Retardant Society, Flame Retardant Technical Innovation Strategic Alliance, China Synthetic Resin Association, China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, SAMPE China Polymer Foaming and Porous Material Committee, etc. Cooperation with these platforms enables the company to provide more innovative products and solutions to clients.

Daisuke Honma, President, Nihon Seiko (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., which was established in 2013 as a subsidiary company of Nihon Seiko Co., Ltd.

He joined Nihon Seiko Co., Ltd. in 2005 and has been engaged in sales and marketing of antimony products, both domestically and internationally.

Nihon Seiko Co., Ltd. was founded in 1935 and has been a leading manufacturer of antimony products in Japan, and Nihon Seiko (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. handles various type of antimony products and other products.

Zheng Chen graduated from Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in metallurgy. In the same year, he joined Lanzhou Engineering & Research Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy Co., Ltd. and successively served as the Director of the antimony smelting plant in Xiyu Town, Xihe County, Gansu Province, the Director of the antimony smelting plant in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, the Production Director of the antimony trioxide plant under Guangdong Yuxing Fire-retardant New Materials Co., Ltd，the vice general manager and chief engineer of Taojiang Jiutong Antimony Co., Ltd. Currently, he is the Deputy Chief Engineer of Lanzhou Engineering & Research Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy Co., Ltd. and Executive Deputy Director of Urban Mineral Resources Recycling Research Center.

Founded in 1958, Lanzhou Engineering & Research Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy Co., Ltd. was successively subordinate to the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, China National Nonferrous Metals Industry Corporation, the National Bureau of Nonferrous Metal Industry and China Copper Lead Zinc Corporation. It was incorporated into China Geo-Engineering Corporation in 2001 and China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group in 2010 together with China Geo-Engineering Corporation.

The company focuses on design, general contracting and supervision in the metallurgical industry, with independent domestic and overseas business rights. It owns multiple grade A qualifications in the metallurgical industry, construction engineering, urban planning, engineering consulting, engineering cost consulting, engineering general contracting and construction drawing review as well as grade B qualifications in the building material industry and the municipal engineering field, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Gansu Lanye Construction Supervision Co., Ltd. has the only comprehensive engineering supervision qualification in Gansu Province. Over the past 60 years since its establishment, the company has undertaken many projects in the fields of engineering consulting, engineering design, general contracting and construction supervision, engineering construction project management and bidding agency, including mining and dressing projects of nonferrous, ferrous, gold, and non-metallic mines at home and abroad as well as smelting-related projects, industrial and civil construction projects, energy conservation and environmental protection projects, building material projects, urban planning and municipal engineering projects in more than 20 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China. It has also provided various technical services to more than ten countries, including North Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Philippines, South Africa, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, C?te d'Ivoire, Uganda, and Eritrea.

James Earle Holds a BEng in Geological Engineering from RMIT University, Melbourne, and a Master of Environmental Management from the University of NSW, Sydney, Australia. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of South Australia. He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Nagambie Resources Limited on 4 July 2016. James has over 20 years’ broad experience with project permitting and approvals, and environmental management. He has held positions with global engineering and environmental consulting organisations and government departments in Australia and the UK. James has also lectured at the Australian National University.

Nagambie Resources Limited is a resources exploration company targeting epizonal high-grade antimony-gold mineralisation across 3,200 sqkm of tenements in the Waranga Domain of the Melbourne Structural Zone, Victoria, Australia. Nagambie Resources aims to be Australia’s next supplier of antimony-gold concentrate to the world, and sits in proximity to the gold-antimony mines at Fosterville (Agnico Eagle) and Costerfield (Mandalay Resources).

Fu graduated in Global Trade from Minzu University of China, then worked at Dow Chemical Company and Pedaro International Limited, then started his own business and ventured into environment protection, metal smelting and global trade for mineral resources.

Hunan Srite Mining Co., Ltd. (Shengruite) is committed to foreign trade and investment for metallic mineral products, metal smelting, deep processing, new energy batteries, as well as new products, technologies and materials. With a superior industry exchange platform and an open corporate culture, following the code of conduct of treating each other sincerely, the company has accelerated the pace of integrating enterprises with international standards, forming a business model of combining agency and self-management, futures and spot trading. Adhering to the "Belt and Road" national strategy and the international strategy of "global sourcing and sales", the company has carried out joint venture cooperations both at home and abroad. With the a trade pattern covering North America, South America, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia initially formed, the company aims to grow into a large comprehensive trade service provider with international supply chain operation.

Set up in 2002 and located at the side of beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou city, Hangzhou Zhengda Antimony Products Co., Ltd. has integrated businesses including research, consigned processing and selling. Sixteen years ago, we registered our own trademark Shanshan Brand, and eleven years ago our company passed 9001 quality management system certification. Our products, including Shanshan Brand antimony trioxide, Shanshan Brand composite flame retardant and Shanshan Brand environmentally friendly flame retardant, undertake SGS tests and food grade tests on a yearly basis. Over the past twenty-one years, we have been dedicated only to one thing, the antimony industry, and won a variety of honors including Zhejiang Demonstration Enterprise of Integrity Management, Excellent Supplier, Distinguished Contribution Award, etc., and our Shanshan Brand series of products are inspection-free products for major companies of different industries.