Category Archives: 2014 AZ China International Aluminium and Carbon Conference
I am in the lucky position of having seen most of the papers that will be presented at the AZ China International Aluminium and Carbon conference next week.
I have to say, the papers I have seen (I have seen all but 4) are excellent. Those of you who are attending next week are in for an excellent conference. Or if you are planning on meeting clients/suppliers during one or other of the papers, you have a difficult choice - they are not to be missed.
I look forward to seeing all of you next week at the Sofitel.
We’re so pleased to have RainCII as a sponsor again this year. They will be providing each conference attendee with an item that most of us use every day. Ipad? Post-it notes? A Google Translation App? (Perhaps, I’m the only one who uses the latter that frequently!) Join us May 5 in Beijing to find out.
Rain CII is a well-established, industry-focused leader and producer of calcined petroleum coke. However, when it comes to company recognition outside of this industry, Rain CII CEO, Gerry Sweeney plainly says, “Most people have never heard of Rain CII, nor do they know why carbon is so important. We aren’t concerned about notoriety. Our pride and passion are in turning green petroleum coke – a byproduct of the oil-refining process – into aluminum, one of our society’s most indispensable metals. We never stop developing innovative new processes, helping customers and suppliers solve problems and working with partners to maximize efficiency and profits. None of this would be possible, of course, without our employees.”
Rain CII creates three primary products:
- Calcined delayed coke used by primary aluminum producers for anode manufacture (80% of their output).
- Calcined delayed coke for titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment manufacture or other industrial application (15% of their output).
- Calcined fluid coke used as a packing material in anode baking furnaces, cathodic protection applications, or other specialty applications.
Their products are critical elements in the production of two important materials widely used in today’s society: aluminum and titanium dioxide.
In 2013, Rain CII acquired The Rütgers Group, a Belgium-based and historic coal tar pitch and chemical manufacturer. Together, Rain and Rütgers are working to build the better anode. “We’re proud of our roles in the industries we serve, exciting about our partnership, and take seriously our commitment to innovation.”
DQ Carbon has been a strong supporter of the AZ China International Aluminium & Carbon Conference for several conferences now. Their company has been expanding over the years and now has offices in several countries around the globe.
China Daqing Gaoxin International Industry and Trading Co., Ltd. is an industrial and trading company with HQ located in Daqing Сity, Heilongjiang province. The company was founded in January 2005 , and has multiple branches in China: Nanjing, Xinjiang, Dongying (Shandong province), Dalian (Liaoning province), Manzhouli (Inner Mongolia), SuiFenHe ( Heilongjiang province) as well as international locations such as Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Moscow, and Turkmenistan. The company’s business center is located in Beijing where the Petroleum Coke Department, Coal Department, Minerals Department, Oil Department and Chemical Department were all established.
The company’s main trading products are: Petroleum Coke, Calcined Petroleum Coke, Coal-tar Pitch, Aluminum Anode, Graphite Electrodes, Aluminum Fluoride, Caustic Soda, Coal and Sulfur, Heavy Oil, Base Oil and other fine chemical products. They like to stay busy!
DQ cooperates with PETROCHINA, SINOPEC, CNOOC and other small independent refineries in Shandong, Hubei, Jiangsu province of China and oil companies in the United States, Brazil and the Black Sea region. They have stable supply of Green Petroleum Coke, Calcined Petroleum Coke and Coal tar Pitch.
DQ has an unique advantage in logistics and warehousing, and also have their own storage center for Green petroleum coke in Bayuquan Port, Rizhao Port, Nanjing Port, Fangcheng Port, Huanghua Port and other important export ports of China. Green coke distribution centers are located in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Shandong, Henan, Hongqing, Liaoning provinces. They also have long-term cooperation with shipping companies, dedicated rail lines and warehouses which can provide flexible modes of transportation.
We’re excited to have a brand new Chinese sponsor this year, Qingxin Carbon.
CPI Ningxia Energy Aluminum Qingxin Carbon Co.,Ltd. (QXC) is a member of the China Carbon Association and the drafter of cathode carbon technical standards for the National Administration of Light Industry Standards Committee. QXC is one of China’s largest cathode block manufacturers, specializing in producing and researching cathode blocks used in aluminum smelters. The company was established in October 1999. The Company owns two separate production lines of graphitic products and graphitized products, and each production line has 20,000 tons of production capacity. According to different customers’ preferences for the shape, they produce cathodes either by vibration machine imported from Outotec or use a domestic extrusion machine from a Shanghai heavy machinery plant. With the use of modern production equipment and advanced production technology, the company has reached production capacity of 40,000 tons of cathode products used for aluminum smelter.
QXC joined into China Power Investment Corporation (CPIC) which is one of the five biggest Power suppliers of China in 2009, now QXC is one of 3 subsidiary companies of the CPIC group. QXC has passed the GB/T24001-2004/ISO14001:2004 Environmental Management System, the GB/T28001-2001 OHSAS, and the GB/T19001-2008/ISO9001:2008 Quality Management System and has acquired the related certificates in 2006. QXC was named one of the nations’s new technology enterprises in 2009.
At present they supply following products to aluminum plants: graphitized cathode block, graphitic cathode block, different grade graphite added blocks, sidewall/corner blocks, ramming paste and carbon glue such lining material and so on. The green blocks size scope is from 425×425×3700～4200 mm to 750×590×3700～4200mm.
GXC exports to a number of countries all around the world.
Koppers was a sponsor for our 2008 conference in Sanya. We’re glad to have them back again this year!
Koppers is a leading integrated producer of carbon compounds and treated wood products for the aluminum, steel, chemical, rubber, railroad, and utility industries. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Koppers has multiple manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, The Netherlands, Australia, and China.
Carbon Materials and Chemicals
Koppers carbon materials and chemicals are essential to the production of aluminum, steel, plastics, resins, treated wood, and rubber products. In addition, the carbon materials and chemicals also increase the durability of many products including railroad ties, utility and transmission poles, and marine pilings.
As a leading distiller of coal tar, a by-product of the transformation of coal into coke, Koppers produces carbon pitch, refined tar, creosote, carbon black feedstock and chemical oils. The chemical oils resulting from distillation are used to produce naphthalene and phthalic anhydride (PAA).
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How are Koppers Products Used?
It all starts with coal.
Coal is carbonized to make coke and Koppers purchases a by-product of Coke-Coal tar. Koppers distills the coal tar and manufactures carbon materials and chemicals that are essential to the aluminum, steel, paint, plastic, wood-preserving, and carbon black industries.
The products from the coal tar distillation also increase the durability of products such asrailroad ties and utility poles.
The chart below illustrates how Koppers manufactures materials from coal tar as well as the industries that rely on Koppers products to manufacture other goods and services that are needed worldwide.
Make sure to say hi to the Bathco team at the May 5-7 conference!
Bath Material is the electrolyte used in the Hall-Héroult process to produce primary aluminium. It’s also known as Secondary Cryolite, Crushed Bath, Bath Cryolite, Pure Bath, Bath and tapped Bath Material.
During the aluminium smelting process, surplus Bath Material can be generated because of high Sodium (Na) content in the alumina. This surplus is tapped in a liquid form and then crushed to be reused to start up new pots or to compensate for electrolyte losses.
Bath Material can also be used in aluminium scrap recycling as well as in a number of other processes such as in the manufacture of glass, steel, enamel, ceramics and more.
The global supplier of Bath Material
Bathco is the only company in the world dedicated exclusively to the Bath Material market. Bathco collaborates with a large community of smelters that sell their surplus Bath and can also provide various other quality levels of Bath including Bath with higher Alumina content.
Contact them with your specifications at info@bathco.ch
With the conference fast approaching, we’d like you to get acquainted with some of the good people who make it all possible: our sponsors.
Today we’ll introduce you to Aminco Anodes, the leading producer of precision-engineered, cost effective and energy efficient carbon anodes.
Smelters of all sizes partner with Aminco to supply their carbon anodes. Aminco Anodes have Swiss engineering and Chinese manufacturing ensuring they are high-quality anodes providing the best cost-benefit characteristics in the industry. Aminco Anodes focuses on meeting the intellectual capital and technical support needs of their exclusive suppliers and customers and from our personal experience, they provide excellent customer and customized services.
You will need a special code for certain aspect of the conference so if you are attending remember the password “amincoanodes”.
How do I get in touch with Aminco? You can contact them directly here and read more about them here.
There are less than three weeks to go before the 4th International Aluminium and Carbon Conference, starting Monday, May 5. Major topics to be discussed at the conference:
1. How can we decipher China’s past to understand its future?
2. What will China’s aluminium industry look like in 2020?
3. What is the impact of shale oil on the aluminium industry?
4. What current coke problems are we facing and what are the solutions?
5. What are the future trends for the bottom and inside of the pot?
From the PPTs we’ve seen so far, our VIP speakers have some useful information to share and it will be a great time for networking. If you haven’t already, don’t forget to register on our conference website. You’ll also want to reserve your Sofitel hotel room soon as available rooms are dwindling.
Sometimes it’s just not possible to stay ahead of the curve, but sometimes it is. AZ China is now the first and only aluminium conference to accept bitcoin!
Bitcoin has been all over the news the past few months yet only true innovators and early adopters are actually using it. The early majority are still waiting to see what will become of it all before jumping on the bandwagon. But you don’t need to wait for the wagon; we’re offering you your very own race horse with a bitcoin conference registration payment option.
Here’s how it works: Fill out the registration form on our conference website and simply select the “Pay with Bitcoin” option. After we receive your registration, Coinbase will email you a bitcoin payment link. At this time you can quickly and easily sign up for a “wallet” account with Coinbase that links to your bank account.
Still apprehensive? Feel free to give it a try and if it turns out to be too much bother for you, we can easily cancel the bitcoin payment request and you can pay with a variety of other tried and true methods.
Be innovative. Bitcoin your AZ China conference payment.
A word of caution: Once you’ve joined the bitcoin elite, try to not flash your bitcoin around the office too much. No one likes a showoff.
Want to know where the aluminium market will be in 2020? Join us in Beijing, May 5-7 and stay ahead of the curve with the best aluminium information around and quality networking. Not sure if the conference will be worth your time? Email your expectations to enquiries@az-china.com.
“Clayton’s” is a word that entered Australian parlance after a non-alcoholic beer company ran a series of TV ads, with the line - “Clayton’s - the drink you have when you are not having a drink.”
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and the State Council have announced a stimulus package which looks remarkably like the stimulus package you have when you aren’t having a stimulus.
The State Council last night announced a series of measures designed to keep China’s economy on track. The package includes spending on low-income housing and railways, as well as tax relief for small businesses, but the announcement contained no information on how these programs would be funded. Importantly, the announcement also carried no word on how Beijing would address some of the financial problems besetting the economy, as companies struggle to repay bonds and corporate loans.
The package was within the guidelines already laid out in the 2014 work plan that the State Council issued a few months ago, so in that respect it contained no surprises or new initiatives. As always with Beijing, this announcement seems to be more in the “talk the talk” domain than in the “walk the walk” one. But perhaps that’s all that is needed in some parts of China’s economy, as sentiment seems to be overruling the fundamentals.
We will be discussing these and other issues in the “China Economy” section of the AZ China conference coming up in about 4 weeks time.
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