11th 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.

Shang Zou, graduating with bachelor degree from Central South University and owning master degree of engineering, a senior engineer on beneficiation, a national registered safety engineer, a grade-two mining engineer, and an assessment expert on professional titling of Hunan province, has long worked in the front lines of gold, antimony beneficiation and smelting. Projects he participated in or sponsored were awarded at provincial, city and industrial association levels. He is now a Party Committee member and Vice General Manager of Chenzhou Mining in charge of company operation.

Located in Guanzhuang town, Yuanling county, Hunan province, Chenzhou Ming is an important subsidiary company of Hunan Nonferrous Industry Investment Group and has a history of over 140 years of gold mining. It boasts one of largest gold mines in China and the world's second largest antimony mine and major antimony mine in China. The company owns a complete mine-related development system consisting of geological prospecting, survey, mining, beneficiation, smelting, refining, deep-processing, transportation, mechanical repair and construction, mine design, environmental management, logistics, international trade, etc. and boasts complete gold, antimony and tungsten industrial chains. It has existing 100t gold purification capacity, 25,000t antimony ingot production capacity, and production capacities of 32,000t antimony trioxide, 3,000t antimony glycol, 1,000t plastic masterbatch and 3,000t ammonium paratungstate. Focusing on development of symbiotic gold, antimony and tungsten resources for many years, Chenzhou Mining owns globally leading core technologies in beneficiation and smelting of gold, antimony and tungsten, and stands in the front ranks of resources comprehensive utilization.

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 subsidiary 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.

Hans Vercammen (born in 1971) obtained a PhD in material science and an MBA from Antwerp Management School. He has joined Campine in 2016 as director of the Specialty Chemicals division. Campine is a leading European specialist in fire retardancy, masterbatches, PET catalysts and recycling of antimony and lead. In May 2018, he was elected chairman of the i2a (International Antimony Association).

Hans brings over 20 years of experience in materials, including antimony and germanium. He is worked in several areas of expertise: general and operations management, business & strategy development and sales in a technological environment related to non-ferrous and semiconductors.

Jun Wu is a Senior Engineer graduating from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 2016 with a doctor's degree in polymer chemistry and physics and completing postdoctoral research at Sun Yat-sen University in 2018. He joined Kingfa Sci&Tec Co., Ltd. in 2016 and serves as the General Manager for Technology from the General Purpose Plastics Department and General Manager Assistant for Technology, responsible for the R&D and production of polyolefin and styrene polymer modified composite materials as well as the operation and management of the technology center. He has engaged in the research work on polycarbonate thin-walled and low-smoke flame retardant, polycarbonate alloy surface and interface characteristic control technology, ABS polymer phase structure and properties, and PEEK composite material design. He has applied for a total of 145 domestic patents, including 43 authorized, and 10 foreign PCT patents, including 4 authorized. In addition, he has published more than 10 related papers and was once selected for the 2022 Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Project held by Guangzhou Association for Science & Technology.

As a company integrating R&D, production, marketing and service of high-performance chemical materials, Kingfa Sci&Tec is located in Guangzhou Science City and has 56 subsidiaries. Owning R&D and production bases in South Asia, North America, Europe and other overseas regions, Kingfa Sci&Tec is not only one of the enterprises with the most complete product range in the global chemical new materials industry, but also the largest modified plastic producer worldwide with richest varieties of products. With its products widely used in fields such as automobiles, household appliances, electronics, communication electronics, new infrastructure, new energy, modern agriculture, modern logistics, rail transit, aerospace, high-end equipment and medical and health, Kingfa Sci&Tech has established strategic partnerships with many well-known domestic and foreign enterprises. Adhering to the 100-billion-yuan strategic development policy of "strengthening the middle, solidifying the two ends, keeping innovation to achieve leapfrog development", the company strives to create a first-class platform for R&D, marketing, supply and manufacturing and become a well-respected company in the new materials field worldwide, so as to provide guarantees and support for the development of national strategic materials.

Vitaly has graduated from Military University, Foreign Languages faculty.

He has 10+ experience in logistics: cargo delivery, customs clearing, warehouse management.

Lin Chen, Deputy General Manager of Hunan Zhenqiang Antimony Co., Ltd., entered the antimony industry in 2008 and has been engaged in mine development and management, mineral processing, ore smelting, and product sales. Currently, he is responsible for the purchase of raw materials and sales of products globally. Hunan Zhenqiang Antimony Co., Ltd. is located in Xikuangshan, the world's antimony capital. It is a large private antimony smelting enterprise and the third refined antimony and gold production enterprise to meet the national antimony industry access conditions, following Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co., Ltd. and Hunan Chenzhou Mining Co., Ltd. The company's business scope includes antimony ore mining, smelting, processing, and sales. Main products include: refined antimony with an annual production of 6,000 tons, and antimony trioxide with an annual production of 2,000 tons, which are exported to Southeast Asia, Europe, America, Japan, and South Korea; gold 99.9% with an annual production of 1,000kg.

Honesty and trustworthiness is the consistent business philosophy of Hunan Zhenqiang. The company established a complete quality system and passed the ISO9001-2000 quality management certification system in 2006. It has been repeatedly awarded the titles of "Advanced Enterprise in Contract Abiding and Reputation Abiding" and "Large Taxpayer". Shuyun Wang, the Chairwoman of the company, has been awarded honors such as "Excellent Entrepreneur" and "Brilliant Leader" multiple times. The company enjoys a good reputation in the market and is an important production and supply enterprise in the antimony industry.

Mangeng Lyu, Ph.D., researcher, doctoral supervisor, was selected into the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2001. He has published more than 150 papers in mainstream domestic and foreign publications and applied for over 50 invention patents.

Mr. Lyu has ever worked at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, South Korea's Fine Polym Co. Ltd., Australia's Monash University, CAS Guangzhou Chemistry Co., Ltd. and Guangdong Yuxing Fire-retardant New Materials Co., Ltd., mainly engaged in the research of organic optoelectronic materials, intelligent polymer materials and others.

Mr. Matsuda is Director of the board of Nihon Seiko Co., Ltd. and General Manager of Sales Department. He joined Nihon Seiko Co., Ltd. in 1986 and he has 37 years of experience in the antimony business, purchasing and importing antimony ore and ingots, marketing and selling antimony products both in Japan and abroad.

He is also a member of board directors of Nihon Seiko (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., which is a sales company of antimony products in China.

Nihon Seiko Co., Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of antimony products in Japan and is looking to expand its business.