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OVERVIEW
Indium, bismuth, germanium, and gallium, as rare metals with unique advantages in China, continued playing an important role in 2023. Indium ingot prices rebounded strongly since the beginning of the year, and kept hovering at a high level under the support of expected growth in photovoltaic demand. The price of bismuth ingot also started to increase this year, and repeatedly broke the RMB60,000/t (USD3.79/lb) mark contrary to the sluggish trend. Since the export controls on germanium and gallium were implemented on August 1, 2023, the market attracted widespread attention as policy trends pull at the heartstrings of the upstream and downstream enterprises at home and abroad. At the beginning of 2024, with the spring flowers blooming, Asian Metal invites you to gather together in Ningbo to discuss on the market.
With the 1st forum hosted by Asian Metal in 2008, the annual In Bi Ge Ga Forum has been witnessing active participation of around 150 countries from all over the world. Recognized by all insiders as the “No. 1 forum in indium, bismuth, germanium, and gallium industries”, the forum has been successfully held for 14 years in Changsha, Nanjing, Kunming, Xiamen, Sanya, Zhuhai, Hangzhou, Qingdao, etc. The past honor is history, new glory lies in front of us. Let us welcome the coming 16th gathering to jointly write a new chapter and start a new journey.
The 16th In Bi Ge Ga Forum would be held in Ningbo, China on March 28-29, 2024. The forum will provide a face-to-face opportunity for market participants to meet new clients, maintain regular clients, discuss and share market situation, and listen to brilliant analysis and insightful views from insiders on market focus and hot topics, in order to inspire wisdom and seize opportunities.
Highlights:
[Advantageous Brand] The exclusive and special international forum held by Asian Metal for 15 consecutive years that integrates indium, bismuth, germanium, and gallium industries
[Authoritative Forum] The most authoritative forum acknowledged globally
[Cutting-edge topics] Discussion on new ideas to lead industry development
[High-end connections] Insight and experience from industry leaders
[In-depth exchanges] Opportunities to provide in-depth two-way communication
PROGRAM
mar 28, Thursday 16:00-19:00 Registration (Lobby 1 F)
18:00-20:00 Welcoming Banquet (Yi Cafe 2F)
mar 29, Friday 08:30-09:00 Sign-in (Junior Ballroom 1F)
09:00-09:30 Application of CIGS Battery Technology and Thin-film Battery in Photovoltaic Buildings
Genbao Xu, Distinguished Expert of the National “Thousand Talents Plan”
09:30-10:00 Medium and Long-term Demand Trends and Resource Supply of Indium, Bismuth, Germanium and Gallium
Qunyi Liu, Director of Basic Mineral Strategy Research Office, Research Center for Global Mineral Resources Strategy, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
10:00-10:30 Tea Break
10:30-11:00 Development and Application of High-purity Tellurium and High-purity Indium Technology
Cheng Zhang, Deputy Chief Engineer, DEC (Leshan) Eban High Purity Materials Co., Ltd.
11:00-11:30 Application and Outlook of Germanium in Infrared Industry
Christian Hell, General Manager, IV IR Optics
12:00-14:00 Lunch (Yi Cafe 2F)
14:00-14:30 Current Status and Development Trends of Compound Semiconductors
Junpeng Bu, Board Chairman, Zhejiang Compound Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
14:30-15:00 Market Application and Industry Outlook of Indium Phosphide
Xiaohua Huang, Board Chairman, Shaanxi Injay Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
15:00-15:30 Tea Break
15:30-16:00 High-purity Metal---Technological innovation---Promising Future
Zewei Fu, Vice General Manager, Yunnan Tin New Materials Co., Ltd.
16:00-16:30 Exploration of China’s Selenium and Bismuth Industry Trends and Potential
Haiguang Ou, Board Chairman, Foshan Weijun Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd./ Guangdong Qingyuan Lianzhou Tapsun New Energy Co., Ltd.
Closed
18:00-20:00 Reciprocal Dinner (Junior Ballroom 1F)
SPEAKERS
  • Junpeng Bu
    Board Chairman
    Zhejiang Kangpeng Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
  • Junpeng Bu, an MBA from Renmin University of China, entitled as a researcher of Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of National Standard Committee of Artificial Crystal Materials, once served as Executive Deputy General Manager of CAS Jiaying Semiconductor Co., Ltd. and General Manager of China Crystal Technologies Co., Ltd. Engaging in semiconductor scientific research for over 35 years, he has been committed to R&D of semi-insulating GaAs and other crystal materials and made outstanding contributions to the rapid development of GaAs materials. At present, Mr. Bu works for Kangpeng Semiconductor as Board Chairman, leading to establish systems of technology R&D, production management, production schedule, sales and after-sales service.
  • Zhejiang Kangpeng Semiconductor Co., Ltd., established on November 5, 2018, mainly focuses on R&D, production and sales of GaAs materials. The company is jointly invested by Junpeng Bu's Beijing team that is responsible for investment, technology and operation, Xiamen Changelight Co., Ltd. and Anxin Capital which is responsible for investment. After Series-A funding, its company valuation reaches RMB700 million (USD103 million). Currently, the domestic market basically sources semi-insulating GaAs substrate materials by importing, while, to some degree, Kangpeng liberates GaAs substrate materials for RF chips from dependence on imports by developing products equivalent to Japan's Sumitomo. It's also worth noting that Kanpeng's semi-insulating products have been sold to EPISTAR Corporation, and will embrace a promising future because they have entered the international market already. In addition, Kangpeng's GaAs wafers are supplied to downstream manufacturers to mainly produce Huawei's face recognition terminal products, therefore, marking that Kangpeng becomes the upstream supplier of Huawei's industrial chain.
  • Cheng Zhang
    DEC (Leshan) Eban High Purity Materials Co., Ltd.
  • Cheng Zhang, deputy chief engineer of DEC (Leshan) Eban High Purity Materials Co., Ltd., has been committed to the research and development of high-purity materials technology and won 4 Science and Technology Progress Awards from DEC Group as well as 14 authorized patents. He revised the current national standard "High Purity Antimony" as the first drafter and formulated the current non-ferrous metal industry standard "Ultra High Purity Indium" as the second drafter. What’s more, Cheng Zhang completed key scientific research projects of Sichuan Province "Key Technology Research Project for Industrialization of 20tpy Ultrapure Tellurium (6N-7N)" and "Research on the Industrialization Process of Ultrahigh Purity Metal Materials", and took the lead in the implementation of the national defense science and engineering project "Ultrapure Antimony Materials Localization and Substitution Development", solving the bottleneck problem of domestic 7N5 ultrapure antimony materials.
  • DEC (Leshan) Eban High Purity Materials Co., Ltd. is the pioneer company engaged in the research, development and production of high-purity metal and compound semiconductor materials in China and owns a modern thousand-level purification plant, a hundred-level ultra-clean room as well as the country's leading GDMS and ICPMS testing equipment. Over the years, the variety number of high-purity metal and semiconductor materials it has developed and produced ranks first in the country. The company's main products are divided into three categories: elemental elements, compounds and oxides, covering 99.999%-99.999995% tellurium, cadmium, antimony, gallium, indium, tin, zinc, silver, cadmium-zinc-telluride and other high (ultra) pure material. Its products are widely used in infrared, photovoltaic, new energy, thermoelectric, medical, electronic refrigeration components, integrated circuits, semiconductors, alloys and other industries, and play a vital role in the high-tech field, providing key materials for China’s essential equipment.
  • Christian Hell
    Managing Director
    IV IR Optics
  • Christian Hell graduated from the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and has a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry. Since 2004, he was working for Photonic Sense as technical director. He has mainly been focused on material analytics and the Czochralski crystal growing process. After the change of ownership of the company, he became Managing Director of IV IR Optics in 2021.
  • IV IR Optics is dedicated to manufacturing highest quality germanium and silicon material and precision components for infrared optics applications. Their advanced production and measuring technologies and equipment guarantee consistent and cost effective processes and outstanding product quality. As a reliable and flexible partner they help customers to increase their production efficiency with short lead times, support of Kanban principles and high precision blanks to save manufacturing cost.
  • Zewei Fu
    Vice General Manager
    Yunnan Tin New Materials Co., Ltd.
  • Zewei Fu, senior material engineer with research focus on new materials and new energy, is the Vice General Manager of Yunnan Tin New Materials Co., Ltd. and is a member of the Material branch of National Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Committee. In recent years, he presided over and took part in as a core member ten provincial and ministerial level research projects (one under National 863 Program, one under Yunnan Provincial Innovation Program, one under Innovation Platform Program, one under Department of Industry and Information Technology of Yunnan, six under Yunnan Provincial Science & Technology Department) as well as a number of R&D projects and engineering projects launched by the company itself, with focuses on research and development, production, application of new products. He completed development of over ten new products and new techniques covering high-purity metals, flame retardants, sapphire, battery materials, and new products developed by him recorded a total sales value of RMB200 million (USD27.82 million) with over RMB30 million (USD4.17 million) tax contributed. He was granted 25 patents, publicized 45 professional papers, and participated in writing of two professional monographs.
  • Yunnan Tin New Materials Co., Ltd. is a state-owned joint venture between Yunnan Tin Group (Holding) Company Limited and Yunnan Tin Co., Ltd. and is controlled by the former. With a view of becoming a globally competitive tin and indium new material deep processing company, Yunnan Tin New Materials focuses on production, selling, research and trading of tin and indium deep processed products. The company has two business sectors, including tin products and tin chemicals. The tin chemical sector is composed of inorganic and organic tin series covering 28 varieties and 45 specifications, with a total annual production capacity of 26,000 tons. The tin product sector is composed of nine series, namely bar, wire, powder, paste, profile, granule, ball and hemisphere, covering over 1,000 specifications with a total annual production capacity of 40,000 tons. The company independently developed high-purity materials (high-purity indium, high-purity indium oxide and high-purity tin oxide, etc.), target materials, flame retardants and preformed solders. The company owns a number of research and technical platforms including center for post-doctoral studies, Yunnan engineering technology research center for tin materials, Yunnan engineering technology research center for tin chemicals, Yunnan indium engineering research center, and is a national level high-tech company, a technique and quality benchmark enterprise of Yunnan province.
  • Haiguang Ou
    Chairman
    Foshan Weijun Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd./ Guangdong Qingyuan Lianzhou Tapsun New Energy Co., Ltd.
  • Haiguang Ou, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Rare Metal Branch of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and the Chairman of China Selenium-rich Agricultural Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, has a long career of producing selenium and researching selenium applications in the fields of industry, agriculture, medicine and health care, promoting extensive applications of selenium in national functional agriculture.
  • Foshan Weijun Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd., founded in 2000, has been honored as the business enterprise of observing contract and valuing credit in Guangdong for 21 consecutive years. It mainly engages in selling non-ferrous rare metals and rare earth alloys, and producing industrial fine selenium and selenium dioxide. The company focuses on R&D and production of organic selenium and nano-selenium fertilizer, and at same time improves agricultural production, income and quality by virtue of the excellent performance of its self-developed nano-selenium fertilizer in agriculture.
  • Qunyi Liu
    Director of Basic Mineral Strategy Research Office
    Research Center for Strategy of Global Mineral Resources, CAGS
  • Qunyi Liu, Associate Researcher, current Director of Basic Mineral Strategy Research Office, Research Center for Strategy of Global Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS) and China Geological Survey (CGS), mainly engaging in the study and research on resource allocation, industrial development, supply and demand of bulk minerals, including ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals and nonmetals in global and domestic markets, giving strategic recommendations and policy proposals to the state. He has led and participated in over 10 research projects, including geological survey project, NDRC strategic consulting project, State Reserve Bureau planning support project, Ministry of Science and Technology special project for international cooperation, Department of Natural Resources soft science program, etc. He also presided over multiple high-level strategic research reports on major national needs in recent years.
  • Jack Huang
    Chairman and founder
    Shaanxi Injay Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
  • Xiaohua Huang, with master degree on chemical engineering from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, has been working in the semiconductor-related engineering and management field for fifteen years. He organized and participated in a number of major research projects and localization projects on crystalline materials with extreme high system integration degree. He owns over fifty patents, of which nearly 20 are patents for invention. In 2021 Xiaohu Huang was selected as a high-level talent introduced to Shaanxi under the Qinchuangyuan High-level Technical Talent Introduction Program. He boasts outstanding experience in technical research, technical direction, program designing, team building, production and operation.
  • Shaanxi Injay Semiconductor Co., Ltd. is a high-tech company focusing on research, development and industrialization of compound semiconductor materials. The company now is working on industrialization of high-quality indium phosphide (InP) polycrystalline semiconductor materials. The project has achieved a breakthrough in China’s high-quality InP polycrystalline material industrialization. The company owns full and independent intellectual property rights on the project’s equipment, technics and controlling system, and has automatic mass production capacity of highly integrated InP polycrystalline materials. InP polycrystalline materials produced by the company has internationally high quality with all indicators of high consistence and stability.
  • Xu Genbao
  • He is a distinguished expert for China’s Thousand Talents program and Float Glass Key Laboratory. Moreover, he is a distinguished guest professor for China’s Green Building Material Key Laboratory and a part-time professor in the Material Science Department of the University of Science & Technology Beijing, as well as a member of SEMI China. He has gained considerable and invaluable experience in the R&D and industrialization of production equipments of solar battery and semiconductor. He dedicates to the research of thin film growth theory and various technologies in thin film production, technologies and industrialization of PV and semiconductor.
CONTENT
Growth in HJT Capacity to Boost Demand for Indium Ingot
Review and Trend Forecast on ITO Target Market
New Growth Potentials in Indium Ingot Market
Review and Future Development of Bismuth Trioxide Market
Application and Outlook of Germanium in Infrared Industry
Review and Development Plan on Germanium Used in Fiber Optical Industry
Supply Status and Opportunities of Gallium Used in Semiconductor Industry
Outlook on Future Production Capacity Growth and Development Trend of Gallium Metal
Application Outlook of High-purity Minor Metals
Future Trends of Germanium, Gallium and Rare Metals under Export Control
(Topics subject to final conference agenda)
ACCOMMODATION

Shangri-La Hotel Ningbo

一、Hotel brief introduction
Located in the heart of downtown Ningbo, Shangri-La Hotel, Ningbo offers 563 luxuriously appointed guestrooms with city views or river views, as well as 57 serviced apartments provides a feeling of “home away from home” during the guests’ stay in this enthralling city. It is just a walking distance to Ningbo’s famous shopping areas – Tianyi Square and Heyi A five-minute drive sees guests to Tianyi Pavilion, the oldest existing private library in Asia.

The hotel owns a fully equipped health club with a state-of-the-art gym, the largest hotel indoor swimming pool in Ningbo, two tennis courts, Jacuzzi, sauna, steam bath and CHI, The Spa – a perfect place for relaxation and rejuvenation.

The hotel houses a lobby lounge and three dining venues. Shang Palace, our signature Chinese restaurant, specialises in authentic Ningbo and Cantonese cuisine together. Lobster Bar and Grill, the awarded Western-style restaurant, offers a decent environment and live band performance. Yi Café, the all-day dining restaurant, serves the best international buffet in the city. Our child-friendly hotel has a dedicated Kid’s Club area offering many activities for children every Sunday, whilst their parents dine on our sumptuous buffet.

From large-scale business conferences to small-sized social events, Shangri-La Hotel, Ningbo provides more than 5,000 square metres of meeting space for meeting organisers to prepare the perfect event. Aside from the largest pillarless ballroom in Ningbo at 2,000 square metres, which can accommodate 108 round tables, the hotel also has a spacious pre-function area of 800 square metres and 16 function rooms sized from 29 to 305 square metres.
二、Hotel Location
Shangri-La Hotel Ningbo only 28 minutes' drive from the airport, 13 minutes from Ningbo railway station .
Address:No. 88 Yuyuan Street, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315040, China
三、Hotel reservation
1. Shangri-La Hotel Ningbo upplies special room offers for all Forum attendees.Please book hotel in time, as room supply is limited.
Room Type Preferential Price
Deluxe King Room RMB650nett with one or two daily breakfasts
Deluxe Twin Room RMB650nett with one or two daily breakfasts
Deluxe River-view King Room RMB750nett with one or two daily breakfasts
Deluxe River-view Twin Room RMB750nett with one or two daily breakfasts
2. Notes:
1). Meetings' representatives book rooms by yourselves at your own expenses
2).Click the following URL to book rooms: click here If you have some problems, please call 0574-8799 8808 to Reservation Department .
3). Rooms are limited and the specific accommodation is subject to the reservation confirmation.
Fees for Representatives from outside China
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AM members USD2,480/person
Non-members USD2,680/person

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Notes:
1. We suggest that representatives fill the registration form and pay for the fees of attendance in advance;
2. The representative capacity can only be confirmed when the registration and fees of attendance have been received. Representatives can obtain the representative credentials and conference materials.
3. The fees cover conference attendance, conference materials, banquet, lunch, tea break and simultaneous interpreting, excluding accommodation and transportation
4. For those who cannot attend the conference for some reason, the fees refund will be processed as per the rules as follows:
The representatives inform the conference organizing committee in the written form in advance. The fees will be fully refunded with four weeks prior to the opening date of the conference. The fees will be refunded by half with two weeks prior to the opening date of the conference. Fees will not be refunded for the rest other situations. 10% of the fees will be charged on the refund.
5. In case of force majeure (wars, natural disasters, plagues, governmental orders, etc.) that causes the suspension of the forum, the organizing committee will refund the paid fees and the contract of the forum will be automatically rescinded.

The In Bi Ge Ga Forum is an annual event that hosted by Asian Metal for global indium, bismuth, germanium and gallium companies to communicate with each other. On 28-29 March, 2024, the 16th Forum will be held in Ningbo, China. During this forum, you can not only have in-depth discussion and smooth communication with Chinese and overseas indium, bismuth, germanium and gallium companies, but also have an opportunity to show your remarkable achievements and unique charm to all participants from all over the world.
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