Asian Metal invited to attend annual meeting of CITIC-CBMM MTC and CITIC-CBMM R&D project report meeting

On 16th March, 2017, Maggie Lee, the Ta&Nb market analyst of Asian Metal, was invited to attend the annual meeting of CITIC-CBMM MTC and CITIC-CBMM R&D project report meeting.

First of all, representatives made speeches by turns on the event, including Sun Yufeng, the vice-president and general manager of CITIC Metal Co., Ltd.; Zhao Pei, vice-chairman of the Chinese Society for Metals (GSM); Miao Zhimin, the deputy director from raw material department of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Marcos Stuart, the deputy general manager and technical director of CBMM. Secondly, an award ceremony was held for annual excellent paper. Thirdly, Guo Aimin, the executive deputy director of CITIC-CBMM MTC announced the 2016 annual report of the center and working plan for 2017. Then partners of different supply chains of CITIC-CBMM MTC announced report on joint projects (R&D and application of niobium microalloying technologies) in 2016 and made deep communication with conference participants.

CITIC Metal has started cooperation in terms of technology and trading with CBMM since the year of 1989. Based on guaranteeing niobium raw material demand in China, the company actively conducts popularization of science and technology for niobium and development and application of Nb-bearing steel in order to promote the upgrading and updating of products and industrial structural adjustment in steel industry and various downstream industries. Over the past years, CITIC Metal started cooperation with major supply chains at different levels in various fields and achieved quantities of results, such as the pipeline steel of X70/X80 applied in West–East Gas Pipeline project, ultralight automobile and upgrading of steel for automobile parts, construction steel in high-speed railway highway and bridge, marine engineering, high performance modern ferrite stainless steel, stainless steel of high temperature resistance for power plant, high temperature alloy.

As the leading enterprise in ferroniobium industry, CITIC Metal Group has been always committed to the promotion and application of niobium products and technological innovation, adhering to the idea of “integration” in order to play more active role in China’s supply front reform and achieve goals in 2025. Meanwhile, the company highly reorganizes information and advisory services from Asian Metal, hoping to further enhance industrial communication and lead the healthy and rapid development of the niobium product market by way of cooperation with Asian Metal.