- Speakers
- Atul Malhotra
- Head of Purchasing & Member of Group Management
- Georg Fischer Automotive AG, Switzerland
- Atul Malhotra has been the Head of Purchasing of Georg Fischer Automotive Group for the past nine years and as such is responsible for the worldwide sourcing and procurement activities of the group. The annual procurement spend of the group totals around 1 billion Euros. In all, he has over 30 years’ professional experience as a business executive in varied functions, mostly with international groups such as Continental, ABB, Adtranz and GF etc.
- Headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Georg Fischer Automotive is an internationally active group of companies comprising two Technology Units – Light Metal and Iron Castings, each with several production plants in W. Europe and Asia. It focuses on the development and manufacture of low-weight and high-performance castings for the automotive industry and its suppliers. GF Automotive is a technology and market leader in Europe, undertaking all casting processes relating to series production as well as processing the associated materials (iron, aluminum, magnesium). The company has around 5.200 employees worldwide and a turnover of Euros 1,2 billion.
- Jianyong Cao
- Chairman
- Chongqing Boao Mg-Al Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- As an advocator and practitioner of industrializing magnesium alloy in China, senior engineer Jianyong Cao has been working in manufacturing management and operation of magnesium and magnesium alloy for nearly a decade. He founded Chongqing Magnesium S&T Co., Ltd and was appointed to be GM by 2000. He led his team to firstly apply magnesium alloy in motorcycle parts and then use it in dynamic tools, auto parts and machinery section with mass production. Cao has held the post of executive member of China Magnesium Association, member of China Materials Research Society and vice chairman of China Metal Working Society, posting and participating in “the Tenth Five-Year” and “the Eleventh Five-Year” important science and technology projects and 863 magnesium alloy project. He was awarded second prize of 2011 scientific and technological progress and ministerial level advanced individual of China Non-ferrous Metals Association and he has more than ten invention patent and utility model patent on magnesium alloy. Cao also participates in formulation of six national standards including State Magnesium Alloy Safety Production. He established Chongqing Boao Magnesium Company and held the post of Chairman in 2006 and made the company survive the price hikes of global magnesium materials and financial crisis during 2008 and 2009. The company has received a large amount of orders from world-famous automobile and electric tools producers and achieved vast export to Europe and North America, being a well-known enterprise with the largest production scale and product category.
- Daniel Chu
- Manager of Trade Department
- Yulin Tianlong Magnesium Industry Co., Ltd.
- Daniel Chu, General Manager Assistant and Trade Manager of Yulin Tianlong Magnesium Industry Co., Ltd., is charged with marketing of products including magnesium metal, magnesium alloy, ferrosilicon, etc., market development both at home and abroad and customer relation management, meanwhile be responsible for reception, administration, and external connection in the Representative Office of the company in Xi’an. Accumulating experience in the practices on both domestic and foreign market for many years, he has known well about market trend and laws about magnesium metal industry and relative products sectors.
- Aleksandra Denizli
- Head of Alloys Unit, Procurement Department
- UC RUSAL, Russia, Moscow
- Aleksandra Denizli is responsible for procurement of 9 thousand tons per year of magnesium as well as other elements like Silicon, Manganese, etc from all over the world to meet requirements of 10 Russian aluminium plants united by RUSAL company. She has more than 6 years procurement experience in RUSAL to supply different types of commodities and 2 years of working in purchasing department in European company. Education - MBA degree from California State University East Bay and PhD degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University.
- RUSAL is the world’s largest aluminium producer. The company was founded in 2000 and, following its merger with SUAL and the alumina assets of Glencore, became the global aluminium industry leader in 2007. The company’s main products are primary aluminium, aluminium alloys, foil and alumina. RUSAL operates in 19 countries on 5 continents. The company’s core smelting capacities are located in Siberia, thus benefiting from the access to the renewable and environmentally clean hydropower and the proximity to the thriving market of China. RUSAL’s scale of operations and strong competitive advantages along with the aluminium industry’s robust fundamentals set up a solid platform for the company’s long-term growth.
- Zhanghong Huang
- D.E. Chief Young Technical Expert
- Western Metal Materials Co., Ltd.
- Zhanghong Huang, doctor of engineering, senior engineer. Graduated from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in May, 2009, his research direction is magnesium alloy and aluminum alloy material processing during his Ph.D and master's period. He started working in R&D and Technology Center of Western Titanium Industry Co., Ltd. in July 2009 and he acts as a core member in research of more than 10 scientific research and industrialization projects such as "large-sized titanium plate, titanium steel composite board producing technology (2007BAE07B02)", a branch project of national science and technology supportive projects, 2012 provincial enterprise technology transformation special project “Wide magnesium alloy plate production line technological transformation”, 2012 annual Shannxi science and technology innovation project “Wide magnesium alloy plate development”, 2012 Shaanxi major science and technology special project “large-sized magnesium alloy plate production and key technology and industrialization”, etc. In 2011, he was appointed to be the chief young technical expert, mainly specializing in titanium alloy bar/forging development and magnesium alloy material development, etc. He published more than 30 theses on domestic and foreign academic journals, including 10 collected into SCI and 12 in EI. He applied for 10 patents, being the first applicant in five patents, and he was authorized in three patents. He won a second prize awarded by China Non-ferrous Metal Industry Association.
- Gaofeng Quan
- Professor, doctorial supervisor
- Southwest Jiaotong University
- Gaofeng Quan, born in Fufeng, Shaanxi, is a D.E., a professor and doctorial supervisor in Southwest Jiaotong University , the director of the Transportation Equipment Lightweight Institute, expert in magnesium sector in China Ferrous Metal Industry Association, senior membership of Germany Material Institute etc. He has worked in Southwest Jiaotong University , Germany Brandenburg industrial university, Germany GKSS Research Center and NCTU, taking charge of vice professor, researcher, research professor and professor.
- Gaofeng Quan is engaged in researches of transport equipment lightweight theory and its application, focusing on the machine shaping theory and application technique of magnesium alloy, alluminium alloy and other metal metrix composites. He participates in over 20 national and provincial science and technology projects, over 20 enterprises cooperated projects, issued over 110 essays and 2 monographs. He obtained several science and technique awards, 11 patents authorized by the country and 9 patents of utility model.
- Dr Zisheng Zhen
- Technical Director, Magontec Asia
- Magontec Xi’an Co., Ltd.
- Dr Zhen gained his PhD in materials science and engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, in 2003. He then conducted further research work on magnesium alloys at Oxford and Brunel Universities in England, and at the GKSS Magnesium Innovation Center in Germany. His major research areas are alloy development, processing technology, and castability evaluation etc. In 2009, Dr Zhen became the Manager of Research and Development at Magontec Xi’an. He took up his current role as Technical Director, Magontec Asia in 2011.
