11th Antimony Forum

Jianjun Gong
Vice General Manager
Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co., Ltd.

Graduated from Sichuan University, Jianjun Gong is a senior engineer in metallurgy and a standing director of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association. He has successively held key positions such as the plant manager of the smelting plant at Zhuzhou Smelter Group, procurement department head, and executive director of Chenzhou Torch Mining Co., Ltd. Currently, he serves as the vice general manager of Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co., Ltd. With years of dedication to the nonferrous metals industry, he has profound expertise in production technology management and marketing, bringing wisdom and strategy to each company he has served.

Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co., Ltd., where Gong Jianjun currently works, is the birthplace of China's antimony industry, long known as the "Antimony Capital of the World". It is now an important backbone enterprise under the China Minmetals Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 company, integrating mining, beneficiation, smelting, and scientific research into a large state-owned antimony-gold consortium. The company holds 25% of the national market share for antimony products and 20% globally. The company's "Twinkling Star" brand is recognized as a "China Famous Trademark", and the company boasts several national-level honors including "China's Renowned Brand Product" and "China Export Quality Safety Demonstration Enterprise". It also owns a nationally accredited laboratory and a national-level enterprise technology center, serving as the primary drafting unit for national standards and industry standards for antimony.

Ouyang Jingquan
Member of the Party Committee, Deputy General Manager of Chen Zhou Mining under the Hunan Province Mineral Resources Group
Party Secretary, General Manager of Anhua Zhazixi Mining Co., Ltd.

Having extensive front-line experience in antimony mining, mineral processing, and smelting, Ouyang Jingquan currently serves as a member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Chenzhou Mining, a subsidiary of Hunan Mineral Resources Group. He is also the Party Secretary and General Manager of Anhua Zhazixi Mining Co., Ltd., responsible for its overall operations.

Anhua Zhazixi Mining Co., Ltd., located in Kuixi Town, Anhua County, Hunan Province, is a subsidiary of Chenzhou Mining under Hunan Mineral Resources Group. With over a century of expertise in antimony and tungsten mining and processing, it is an integrated enterprise covering mining, mineral processing, and smelting. Currently, the company boasts internationally leading gold, antimony, and tungsten co-ore beneficiation and separation core technologies. It operates an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly mining, processing, and smelting production line, with an annual ore mining and processing capacity of 360,000 tonnes, an annual refined antimony production capacity exceeding 6,000 tonnes, and a daily wastewater treatment capacity of 2,800 tonnes. The company's main product is 99.85% grade antimony, which is used in flame retardants, catalysts, alloys, ceramics, solar energy, and other industries.

Liam Farley
CEO
Xcelsior Capital Limited

Liam Farley is the CEO and founder of Xcelsior Capital Limited, established in 2023 to provide flexible financing solutions for companies across critical metal and mineral value chains from miners to recyclers in return for physical trading/offtake rights.Xcelsior works in partnership with Wogen Resources Limited, a leading physical commodity trading company with over 50 years of heritage and a global presence.

He has a background in the natural resources industry as a geologist for companies like BHPBilliton and in private equity for firms such as Proterra Investment Partners, providing exposure to the full life cycle of assets, their operations,management and governance.

Hui Li
Senior Engineer
Yantai Hengbang High Purity New Materials Co., Ltd.

Li Hui has extensive experience in the production and management of copper, lead, and zinc smelting, as well as in the development of advanced materials.

Yantai Humon High Purity New Materials Co., Ltd. is a key subsidiary of Shandong Humon Smelting Co., Ltd., which is affiliated to Jiangxi Copper Group, a Fortune Global 500 company. Located in Yantai, Shandong, the company is committed to establishing a four-segment production system focused on high-purity raw materials, infrared optical materials, precious metal materials, and semiconductor materials. It currently boasts an annual production capacity of 69 tons of high-purity tellurium, 52 tons of high-purity arsenic, 20 tons of high-purity antimony, 15 tons of high-purity selenium, and 7 tons of sulfur glass ingots.

Under the leadership of President Shengli Qu, the company's R&D team maintains a relentless pursuit of excellence in high-purity materials. With strong independent innovation capabilities and a commitment to green development and top-tier product quality, the team has made significant breakthroughs in high-purity material preparation, successfully translating research achievements into industrial applications. The company has developed and industrialized 5N-7N high-purity antimony products, which are now widely used in the production of semiconductor materials such as gallium antimonide and indium antimonide, serving as key semiconductor dopants. The company has been recognized for its contributions to the industry, winning the First Prize of China Nonferrous Metal Industry Science and Technology Award. Additionally, its industrialization project was honored as an "Innovation and Excellence Labor Competition Achievements Project" in Yantai City’s "Gathering New Momentum · Sprint to the Billion City" innovation and excellence labor competition.

Hans Vercammen
Director at Campine

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.

Vitaly Butkeev
Head of logistics and foreign-economic activity
GPM Chemicresource LLC

Vitaly has graduated from Military University, Foreign Languages faculty.

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

Yiquan Zheng
Kingfa Sci.&Tech. Co., Ltd.

Yiquan Zheng, a Ph.D., professor-level senior engineer and an outstanding expert in Guangzhou, has long been engaged in the research of polymerization, processing and modification of polymer materials, possessing rich theoretical and practical experience. In over 20 years of work in the field of polymer processing and modification, he has accumulated and expanded his technical capabilities, and gained extensive industry practical experience. He has participated in the compilation of the book "Fundamentals and Applications of Thermoplastic Polymer Blending Modification" (published in 2018), published more than 10 academic papers, and obtained 33 authorized patents at home and abroad. In terms of technological innovation and achievement transformation, he has won the Second Prize of Guangdong Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2014 and 2015, the First Prize of Guangzhou Science and Technology Progress Award in 2015 and the 19th China Patent Excellence Award in 2017.

Kingfa Sci.&Tech. Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the R&D, production, sales, and service of high-performance chemical new materials. Headquartered in Guangzhou Science City, Kingfa owns 56 subsidiaries and has established R&D and production bases in overseas regions including South Asia, North America and Europe. It is not only one of the enterprises with the most complete product range in the global chemical new materials industry, but also the largest and most comprehensive modified plastics producer worldwide. Its products are widely used in the fields of automobiles, household appliances, electronic and electrical, communication electronics, new infrastructure, new energy, modern agriculture, modern logistics, rail transportation, aerospace, high-end equipment, medical and health. Having established strategic partnerships with many well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, Kingfa adheres to its 100-billion-yuan strategic development policy of "strengthening the middle and consolidating both ends for innovation-driven and leapfrog development" and strives to create a first-class R&D, marketing, supply, and manufacturing platform and become a globally respected new material enterprise to provide guarantee and support for the development of national strategic materials.

Ting Zhao
Director of the Information and Intelligence Office of Research Center for Strategy of Global Mineral Resources
Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

Ting Zhao, currently the Director of the Information and Intelligence Office of Research Center for Strategy of Global Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, is a professor-level senior engineer and doctoral supervisor. With a career dedicated to the exploration of global mineral resources strategy and mining big data, he has been instrumental in spearheading and contributing to numerous national key initiatives. His portfolio includes leading roles in the national survey of mineral resource utilization status, the national mineral resources survey, and various geological survey projects, alongside over 20 projects commissioned by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission. He has published more than ten monographs and over fifty papers in domestic and international academic journals, and has won two provincial and ministerial scientific and technological awards.