Category Archives: 2012 International Aluminium Raw Materials Conference
We enjoyed meeting up with old friends and making new ones during the conference last week. For those of you who were unable to attend this time, here’s a glimpse of what you missed:
Conference photos: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDA1NTgzMzQ4.html
Kungfu video: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDA1MDAxNzI4.html
Hope to see you all next time!
The final day of the conference will be focusing on carbon and other raw materials. We will begin at 8:30am with a full day of papers and another interesting panel discussion right before lunch. If you have any questions you’d like discussed by our expert speakers, you can text your question to +86 1366 1188 323. We value your feedback. Grab a orange conference survey before you go and let us know what we can improve upon in the future or what you especially enjoyed.
If you were unable to attend the conference but would like to purchase the conference papers, please email charissa.trahms@az-china.com.
The official start of the conference will begin at 8:30am in the City Wing Grand Ballroom 1. Please arrive by 8am if you have not yet registered or paid for the conference. We’ll have security at the doors so don’t forget your nametags. Lunch will be served at the Yum Cafe located on the 1st floor of the Shangri-la. Please give one meal card (located on the back of your nametag) to the hotel staff. We will have simultaenous translators for both days of the conferenc. Headsets can be rented for a deposit of 100rmb or $20. Please remember to bring cash or use your passport as a deposit an return the headsets if you need to leave the conference room. Let our staff know if you have any questions!
Welcome to Qingdao! We saw a few familiar faces already wandering around the Shangri-la. The registration desk will open at 4:30pm today and doors to the cocktail party will open at 6:30pm. If you have not yet registered or paid, please find Lisha at the Information Desk. After entering the main hotel lobby, you can find the conference registration desk to the right of the hotel check-in desk. Or simply ask the hotel staff where the City Wing Grand Ballroom is on level 1.
There’s just a few seats left for the optional Anode Plant tour on Friday. But today is the last day to sign up.
The speaker papers have just been sent to all registered delegates of the AZ China International Aluminium Raw Materials 2012 conference. If you did not receive your email with links to all the papers, please check your spam box or email lisha.li@az-china.com.
If you are planning to pay for the conference at the door, please note that we do not have credit card machines available; however, cash payment is acceptable.
For those packing over the weekend, the weather in Qingdao next week should be in the 70sF (24C) but there’s a cool breeze coming off the ocean.
We’d also like to mention that this year’s conference will be supporting a Beijing-based charity called Stars and Rain, which assists families dealing with autistic children. It’s one of its kind in China.
See you all on Tuesday!
With less than two weeks until the conference, we’d like to remind everyone to keep an eye on the agenda as we’ll be updating it more frequently.
And if you’re not Chinese, check to make sure you have a China visa!
Also, if you’re booked for the conference but haven’t booked your hotel room, the discounted rate at the Shangri-la is only guaranteed until May 10th. If you’re not booked for the conference, what? It’s the China aluminium raw materials event of the year!
We are making final arrangements for Sunstone’s Anode Plant tour on Friday, May 25th, but there’s still time to sign up if interested. The delegate list is now available to all registered delegates and you can easily arrange meetings via the Messaging Tool on the conference website. Don’t forget to log on to see if you’ve got mail.
China will have a three day public holiday starting tomorrow, April 29, so the office will be closed until Wednesday. Our weekly report subscribers will get the report two days early as a result.
Over the upcoming weekend, our May 1st early bird discount for the May 22 conference will expire. If you haven’t registered yet and would still like to take advantage of this discount, please take action today.
5 top topics to be discussed at the conference:
1. Once a decade, China gets a new leadership team. What are the implications?
2. Will China continue its path of becoming the world leader in smelting technology?
3. How will calcined coke be marketed and priced in the future?
4. What does the second half of 2012 and the next year hold in store in terms of China’s economy?
5. What are the risks for forming or not forming strategic partnerships with Chinese suppliers?
We are packing in as much valuable content and discussions as possible and are anticipating a great event.
AZ China is delighted to confirm that Dr Liu Feng Qin will attend our conference in Qing Dao next month.
Dr Liu is probably the best known person in the China aluminium and raw materials space. She has presented countless papers at TMS on the latest technological developments in the areas of petroleum coke calcining, the use of shot cokes and other non-traditional cokes in anodes, and in the latest cathode designs.
As head of Chalco’s R & D in theses areas, and Chalco’s Chief Engineer, she is in the driver’s seat when it comes to smelting technology.
Miss Liu gave a paper at our 2010 conference, as many of you will recall. We are currently discussing topic areas that she could expand on.
I am delighted to have my old friend Miss Liu joining us again this year.
At the MB aluminium conference this morning, well-known China aluminium expert Mr Dong Chunming told delegates in no uncertain terms his ideas for the future of China’s aluminium industry. His views included that local government officials, finance companies and industrial corporations are more interested in making money for themselves than they are in the greater good for China.
Mr Dong gave examples to support his views. In one province, he said that that local officials gave an offer of 1 billion tonnes of coal for every 2 billion tonnnes of fixed asset investment. He felt that over-capacity is the result of greed, and called for China to wait “for its soul to catch up”.
It was refreshing to hear someone give their personal views at a conference. One doesn’t have to agree with him to admire his courage.
Mr Dong is planning to be at our conference in Qing Dao, where I hope we can get him to expand on his views.
We are receiving more and more questions about the optional anode plant tour that is being hosted by Sunstone on May 25th so we thought we’d post more pictures. As we blogged about previously, it’s a worthwhile visit and getting out to see the coutryside is indeed a great way to end out the conference week! Register for the tour before May 10th by emailing charissa.trahms@az-china.com.
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