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Cui Jian
Vice General Manager
Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation, China
John Harris
Director, Raw Materials
ArcelorMittal, US
Wang Zhenwu
Vice President
China Association of MetalScrap Utilisation, China
Wei Jiahong
Vice Chairman
China National Resources Recycling Association, China
 Iidar Neverov
General Director, Non-ferrous metals for Russia and CIS, BIR, Russia
 Wang Ming
Vice General Manager
Zhejiang Hailiang, China
Scott Newell
Chairman
Newell Recycling Co and The Shredder Co., USA
Bernard Maguire
Vice President
Cronimet, South Africa
 Yang Zhenhe
Vice General Manager
Nanjing Iron and Steel United, China
Christian Rubach
Chief Operating Officer, Steel & Metals
Interseroh AG, Germany & President, Ferrous Division, BIR
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Conference:
Day 1
03 November 8am - 5:30pm
Day 2
04 November 8am - 5:30pm
Workshops:
Post conference workshop - 05 November 8am - 5.30pm
Tackling scrap import legislations and regulations in China
› Full conference programme
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Executive Vice President, Raw Materials and Procurement,
Erdemir, Turkey
Ozan Bekçi graduated from the Electric and Electronics Department of the Bosphorus University in 1996, concentrating on telecommunications and microelectronics. Immediately after his undergraduate studies, he pursued his post graduate degree (MBA) on Business Administration at the Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh, USA. After the completion of his MBA degree in 1998, he started to work as an equity research analyst at Penhurst Capital Management in Pittsburgh and was the associate portfolio manager of the newly launched hedge fund concentrating on the equities of technology companies between the years 1999 and 2002.
Mr. Bekci returned to Turkey in 2002 and took up a risk management position at OYAK Bank focusing on the implementation of Basel II compliant risk management modeling. In 2003, he joined the new business development team of OYAK (a large private pension fund of Turkey) and has ever since been involved in the business development projects pursued by OYAK in several executive roles as director or co-director. Several of the business development projects he has been involved with have been putting together the first syndicated loan of OYAK and follow-up syndicated loans, arranging the non-recourse acquisition financing for OYAK’s purchase of a large steel mill, conducting the m&a work for the acquisition of a 1200 MW power plant as well as for the privatization of Turkish incumbent telecom carrier (Turk Telekom), Turkish state refinery (Tupras) and the only integrated flat steel producer of Turkey (Erdemir) and founding a green-field data/telco carrier.
On March of 2006, Mr. Bekçi was appointed as Executive Vice President and Member of the Board at ATAER A.Ş., the holding vehicle for OYAK’s stake in the steel mill Erdemir. He was subsequently appointed as Executive Vice President of Raw Materials and Procurement at Erdemir. During his still continuing tenure as Erdemir’s procurement executive, he has been working on a thorough transformation of Erdemir’s business interactions with the commodity markets with a keen focus on risk management and forward positioning as well as taking initiatives to add paper market activities as an additional instrument. Mr. Bekci has integrated and consolidated the raw material procurement of two separate steel mills under OYAK and restructured the business processes and the organizational architecture accordingly. Ozan Bekçi resumes his position in New Business Development at OYAK.
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Managing Director,
Sims Group UK, United Kingdom
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Mr Fabio Esteves De Carvalho, Chief Representative,
Votorantim Metais, China
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Executive Vice President,
Tung Tai Group, United States
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Chief Editor,
Rusmet Group
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Vice General Manager,
Shanghai Baosteel 宝钢集团股份有限公司, China
Cui Jian, male, born in January, 1960, doctor and senior engineer, specializing in the iron and steel metallurgy, and currently serving as Deputy General Manager of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (Baosteel).
Working experiences: Joined Baosteel in February 1983, and successively held the positions of Assistant to General Manager of Baosteel Group and Director of the Steel Smelting Works, and Assistant to General Manager of Baosteel Group and Executive Deputy Director of the Baosteel Research Institute (Executive Deputy Director of the Technology Center), and became Deputy General Manager of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. and Director of Baosteel Research Institute (Director of Technology Center) in June, 2003, and Deputy General Manager of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. in May 2006.
Main concurrent positions: Council Member of the Chinese Society for Metals, Vice President of the Metallurgical Industry Council of China Association for Quality, Vice President of User’s Committee of China Association for Quality, Vice President of Shanghai Society for Advanced Materials, and President of Shanghai Enterprise Management Association.
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Vice President, Sourcing & Supply Management,
Jindal Stainless, India
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Director of Commodities,
ISRI, United States
Robert “Bob” Garino is Director of Commodities for the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. located in Washington, DC. The commodities department serves as a market research resource for ISRI’s headquarters and for its member firms.
ISRI is a national trade association which represents approximately 1,500 scrap recycling industry participants--consumers, brokers, processors, equipment manufacturers, and service-oriented businesses. In addition to domestic members, ISRI serves members in over thirty countries world-wide. The commodities represented include virtually all metals--such as steel, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, zinc, precious metals, and minor metals--as well as non-metallic materials--such as paper stock, glass, plastics, textiles, and rubber.
Mr. Garino’s duties include writing, editing, and marketing ISRI’s weekly Friday and Monday Report, in addition to writing feature articles for ISRI’s bi-monthly magazine, Scrap. He’s also responsible for numerous member and non-member programs offered throughout the year--such as the September commodity roundtables and various workshops presented at ISRI’s annual convention.
Before joining ISRI, he was with NARI--National Association of Recycling Industries--located in New York City. NARI merged with ISIS--Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel--in 1987 to form ISRI. He moved to Washington, DC and has been with ISRI since the merger.
And before that, Bob was with the London-based Commodities Research Unit. He began his metals career following college (BS Economics, Monmouth University) working in New York City for INCO in market research, and strategic planning for NL Industries.
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Principal Commercial Officer,
U.S. Consulate General Shanghai, China
David Gossack is Principal Commercial Officer at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai.
He previously served as Commercial Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 2003-2007, in Bangkok from 1999-2002, and in Tokyo from 1995-1999. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the Department of Commerce. Earlier in his career he held positions in the State Department, at the American Embassy in Tokyo and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. From 1987 to 1990, he was Counsel to U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii, Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on International Trade, where he was an active participant in drafting legislation in the Senate. Mr. Gossack subsequently practiced international trade and business law in a Washington, DC firm. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the School of Law at the University of Washington, and a native of San Jose, California.
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Director, Raw Materials,
ArcelorMittal, Canada
John Harris is a Canadian Professional Mechanical Engineer working for Mittal Steel North America Inc. as Director, Raw Materials Technical Applications.
For the last six years, John has monitored and assessed the global scrap markets for the Mittal Steel Group as well as consulting with individual Mittal Steel Group plants pertaining to scrap buying, processing, storage and usage. For the last 4 years, after each new steel plant acquisition, John has preformed a total scrap assessment. Subsequently, the action plans from these reports have been implemented and followed up regularly with measured cost savings and further action plans.
As well as the above duties, John markets and sells all excess Mittal DRI from all of Mittal Steel’s production operations. This can amount to approximately 700,000mt/year.
Prior to joining Ispat in February 2000, now Mittal Steel, John was Corporate Manager for Scrap Operations for Birmingham Steel. He was involved with setting up of a scrap purchasing organization at the various plants and took an active part in the purchasing of scrap in the southeastern US. Also during this period, he setup sales and marketing plans for Birmingham’s 50% ownership in American Iron Reduction, a DRI producing facility in Louisiana.
Before Birmingham Steel, John worked for Hoogovens Technical Services as Director Business Development for their International activities. He spent 2 years marketing and selling steelmaking technology in China and India before returning to the Western Hemisphere to concentrate on sales to the North and South American markets.
John began his steelmaking career in operations at Stelco in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in the late 60’s. Here he worked as Manager of an Open Hearth operation and eventual became Manager of a Slab Caster operation for the startup of Stelco’s then new green field site on Lake Erie.
John is a graduate of Boston University in Engineering and a long time member of the “Association of Professional Engineers of Canada”. He resides in Innisfil with his wife, which is located approximately 100 miles North of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Ms Ditte Juul-Joergensen, Head of Unit,
Directorate General for Trade, European Commission, Belgium
Ditte Juul Jørgensen is Head of Unit for Trade and Sustainable Development and SPS issues in the European Commission's Directorate-General for External Trade. The unit is responsible for social and environmental aspects of multilateral and bilateral trade policy, Sustainability Impact Assessments and dialogue with civil society, as well as EU export interests relating to Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary issues.
Ditte Juul Jørgensen has worked in EU trade policy for 13 years. From 1995 to 2002, she worked on WTO issues, including dispute settlement, market access, trade and competition, trade and development, and trade and labour, as well as coherence in global economic policy making. In 2002 Ditte Juul Jørgensen became head of the economic section of the EC Delegation to the United Nations in New York, where she followed trade, development and environmental issues. Upon her return to headquarters in 2006, she worked on bilateral trade relations with countries in South Asia until taking up the post as Head of Unit for Trade and Sustainable Development and SPS Issues in 2007.
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Group Publisher,
Recycling Today Media Group, USA
Mr. Keefe joined GIE Media, Recycling Today’s parent company, in 1991 in a sales and market research capacity. In 1992 he was promoted to Marketing Manager for GIE’s recycling business and in 1993 promoted to Sales and Marketing Manager for GIE’s portfolio of media products. In 1995 his focus returned solely to the recycling industry when he was promoted to Publisher of Recycling Today and its affiliate publications. Since that time Mr. Keefe has remained active in the recycling industry, participating in industry conferences and meetings in North America and throughout the world. He has also been active with industry trade associations such as the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) and the BIR. He currently serves as a board member for his local ISRI chapter.
During his career Mr. Keefe has overseen the continuing development of Recycling Today magazine, which is today the leading business magazine serving the recycling industry. He also managed the launch of their internet site, www.RecyclingToday.com, as well as numerous related publications including Construction & Demolition Recycling, Secure Destruction Business and Recycling Today Global Edition, market directories and conferences. He currently serves as an Executive Vice President for GIE Media and is a member of the firm’s executive team.
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General Director,
KazCherMet, Kazakhstan
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Director of Legislation,
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) 国家质量监督检验检疫总局, China
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Director of Operations,
Iron and Steel Statistics Bureau, United Kingdom
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Chairman, Metal Recyclers Association of South Africa & Vice President,
Cronimet, South Africa
Bernard has been involved in the Recycling Industry in South Africa in excess of 27 years, specialising in stainless steel and special alloys.
He joined the Metal Recyclers Association (MRA) in 1997, to contribute to the vibrant growing Recycling Industry in the South African economic environment as the Association and scrap metal entered a new chapter within South Africa. I have been on the executive committee of the MRA for the majority of my years as a member, and currently hold the position as Chairman of the Metal Recyclers Association.
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Managing Director,
Aadi Imports, India
Mr. Anish Mehta currently serves as Managing Director of Aadi Imports Pvt. Ltd based at the company head office located in India.
After finishing Bachelor studies in Business Administration, Mr. Mehta further pursued and accredited himself with Masters Degree in International Business. Under the Entrepreneurial Vision & leadership of Mr. Mehta, Aadi Imports is growing very rapidly in its core areas of business & has established itself as a reputed global trading house with future plans to expand & engage in processing, mining & collecting of raw materials & natural resources.
Mr. Mehta is valued committee member in several Chambers of Commerce & Organization. He is currently leading a panel which is working on establishing Steel & Metal Scrap Exchange & Organization in his state of residence & closely working with all the Senator and Government bodies to create this organization.
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Hon. General Secretary,
Aluminium Association of India, India
Prof.K.S.S.Murthy, Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, graduated from University of Mysore with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Later, he obtained Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Indian Institute of Science. He joined the faculty of the Indian Institute of Science in late 1959 and continued to be associated with the Institute engaging in teaching and research in the areas of Metal Castings, Metal Joining, Materials Science, Manufacturing etc., He has guided a number of Master’s and Doctoral programmes besides publishing over 160 papers. He was also associated with the Canmet-Materials Technology Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada, where he initiated research programmes relating to aluminium and copper. He has published over 150 International and National journals and has authored a book “Aluminium Castings”.
After serving as Professor and Chairman he formally retired in 1997 and continued with the Institute in an Emeritus position. He is currently responsible for setting up of a research laboratory “National Facility For Semi-Solid Forming” at a cost of nearly 70 million rupees at the Institute, funded Ministry of Mines, Dept of Science & Technology & Defence Research & Development Organisation [DRDO] , Government of India
Besides being consultant to a number of industries, he is also Director of several companies. He has been the Secretary-General of Aluminium Association of India, the apex body of Indian Aluminium industry. He is also a member of several Advisory Committees of Government of India. He has organized a number of National and International Conferences. He is also the Chairman of Light Metals & Alloys Sectional Committee, MTD 7 of BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS. Further, he was the Conference Secretary of the International Conference on Aluminium – INCAL 2007 held during 21st to 23rd November 2007 at Hyderabad.
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General Director,
Scrap Market
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Chairman,
Newell Recycling Company & The Shredder Co, United States
Scott Newell a long time veteran of the scrap business has just entered his 50th year in the industry. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Newell Recycling Company of El Paso, a full service scrap plant with a shredder and non ferrous processing facilities, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Shredder Company, LLC, El Paso, Texas, which operates an equipment manufacturing plant which makes shredding equipment and also a large capacity steel alloy foundry, which makes all types of wear and impact resistant castings.
He has been involved with shredding since the first Newell Shredder was built in 1959 and has been operating and building shredding equipment since that time. He has written numerous papers on the scrap steel and scrap non ferrous metals processing, which have been delivered in scrap industry and steel industry forums around the world.
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Managing Director,
Mjunction Services, India
Viresh Oberoi is the Managing Director and founder Chief Executive Officer of mjunction services limited (MJ).
He started his career in 1978 with TATA Steel and joined MJ in 2001.
mjunction, a 50:50 joint venture of SAIL and TATA Steel, is an IT/ ITES company and specializes in providing eSelling, eSourcing and Knowledge Services spanning the entire eCommerce spectrum and operates through – metaljunction.in, coaljunction.in, buyjunction.in, autojunction.in and straightline.in. Started in 2001, the company now transacts over Rs. 10,000 crores annually, establishing it as India’s largest eCommerce company. It is Mr Oberoi’s vision, people skills and relentless pursuit of all round excellence that has made the phenomenal growth of the organization possible in such a short span of time.
He has been awarded the 'Udyog Rattan’ by Institute of Economic Studies, New Delhi in 2005. In September 2006, the Institute conferred the ‘Bhartiya Shiromoni Puraskar’ to Mr Oberoi and a “Gold Medal” to mjunction in recognition of enhancing the image of the Country.
In his spare time, Mr Oberoi is a passionate traveller interested in meeting new people - learning about their culture and interests and exploring infrequently used paths. He has backpacked through Europe, Africa and large parts of Asia. He is also a keen wildlife enthusiast.
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Chief Executive,
Gemini Corporation N.V., Belgium
Mr. Ved Prakash (Commerce graduate with management degree) has 10 years experience with the group Gemini Corporation NV, Belgium. Mr. Ved Prakash is presently the head of Steel Division in the company. With own sets ups in Middle East, India, Far Eastern countries, Gemini corporation has a very good name in European recycling business; specially in the fields of Plastics and Steel Recycling Products. Gemini Corporation shares around 28% of total exports of Recycling Plastics from Belgium. Our further expansion plans in North America will add to our strength in multi-continental trading of Scrap business. We believe in creating value for our partners as a supplier or as a customer. Shredded Steel is our specialization in recycling steel business. The president of Gemini Corporation, Mr. Surendra is current Chairman of Plastic Committee of BIR (Bureau of International Recycling).
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Chief Operating Officer, Steel and Metals,
Interseroh AG, Germany
Mr Rubach is responsible for INTERSEROH's activities in the field of steel and metals recycling. After his training in banking and university studies in economic science he initially spent four years with a German bank and six years within the field of financing of exports for two major companies before he took part in establishing a major petrochemical project in Jakarta, Indonesia, between 1982 and 1984. Back in Germany, Christian Rubach initially became head of department "financing plant construction" with Krupp Industrietechnik and subsequently took over the sales management for plants for exploitation of primary raw material between 1989 and 1995. From 1995 until his resignation in July 2000 Christian Rubach has been managing director of Krupp Hoesch Rohstoff und Recycling (since 1998 Hansa Recycling GmbH). He is member of the board of INTERSEROH AG, Cologne, since August 2000. Christian Rubach is married and has one son.
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General Secretary,
Vietnam Steel Association , Vietnam
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Secretary General,
South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute, Malaysia
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Vice General Manager,
Zhejiang Hailiang , China
MBA and Senior Economist. Worked at Jiangxi Copper Corporation before 2001, and works at Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd. since 2001, and engages in enterprise management, securities investment, industrial investment and other businesses. Won the titles of China First Management Elites, China Best Planner, China Top Ten Outstanding Professional Executives, Zhejiang Operation and Management Master, Zhejiang Youth Private Entrepreneur etc. Worked as Assistant to President of Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd. and Vice President, and currently is director and Vice General Manager of Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd., standing member of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and visiting professor of the professional executive training held by China Enterprise Confederation.
Successively obtained the first-grade award and second-grade award for the national innovative achievements on enterprise management modernization, two first-grade awards for innovative achievements on enterprise management modernization in Zhejiang Province, three first-grade awards for the achievements on the management modernization of Chinese nonferrous industrial enterprises and one second-grade award; won a number of national, provincial and industrial awards for excellent papers, published more than 40 papers and gave lectures at the domestic and international industry forums.
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Vice President,
China Association of MetalScrap Utilisation 中国废钢铁应用协会, China
Wang Zhenwu, male, born in May 1946, Han Nationality, professor-level senior engineer
From 1965 to 1970
Studied at Beijing University of Iron and Steel Technology
From 1970 to 1977
Worked in Chengde Iron and Steel Factory
From 1977 to 1988 Worked in the Metal Recovery Division of Material Department of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry
From 1988 to 1994
Worked at Sinosteel Raw Materials Company
From 1994 to 2006 Worked at Sinosteel Corporation
Vice President of Sinosteel Corporation and Vice President of China Association of Metal Scrap Utilization since 1999, retired in 2006
From 2006 Executive Vice President of China Association of Metal Scrap Utilization
Major work:
During his work at Chengde Iron and Steel Factory as a field technician and section chief, engaged in maintaining the rolling mill plant and took part in lots of technical revolutions and overhauls.
During his work at the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, Mr. Wang was mainly dealing with steel scrap and helped the import of scrap steel processing equipment and management of industrial equipment. Meanwhile, he participated in establishing the standards of scrap steel and the associated organization, management and some technical work. Moreover, he participated in establishing the Metal & Resources Department of University of Science and Technology Beijing, the Association of Steel Scrap Utilization and the Iron and Steel Scrap Division of Chinese Society for Metals, and so on.
Participated in establishing the relevant policies and standards for scrap steel and scrap steel import, surveyed the scrap steel resources throughout China, organized associated exhibitions and several international meetings about scrap steel. He has also published several papers.
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Vice Chairman,
China National Resources Recycling Association 中国物资再生协会, China
Wei Jiahong, born in 1964 in Heilongjiang Province, is a holder of a college diploma. He started to engage in the work at the Association, and is currently the Executive Deputy Director of China National Resources Recycling Association, and holds the concurrent posts of Director of Renewable Resources Technical Service Committee, Renewable Resources Trade Coordination Committee and Supply Chain Working Committee.
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Vice General Manager,
Nanjing Iron & Steel United , China
Yang Zhenhe, male, Han nationality, was born in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province in January 1949. He is a CPC member, a holder of a junior college’s degree and a senior engineer.
He is currently Deputy General Manager of Nanjing Iron & Steel United Co., Ltd. and Nanjing Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd.
Since starting work, he used to work at Iron Smelting Works of Nanjing Iron & Steel as Shift Chief, Foreman, Director of Blast Furnace Plant, Deputy Director, Deputy Division Chief of Production and Sales Division, Deputy Division Chief and Division Chief of Production Division. In September 1995, he was appointed Assistant to Director of Nanjing Iron & Steel Works (Assistant to General Manager after Nanjing Iron & Steel Works was transformed into Nanjing Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. in July 1996). He is Deputy General Manager of Nanjing Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. since April 1999, and became Deputy General Manager in April 2003 after Nanjing Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. was reorganized to establish the Nanjing Iron & Steel United Co., Ltd.
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Secretary General,
Turkish Iron and Steel Producers Association, Turkey
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Emeritus Director,
Shanghai Non-ferrous Metals Trade Association, China
Yin Ruiyu, born in Suzhou City of Jiangsu Province in 1935, is a famous iron and steel metallurgical expert in China. First elected to be an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1994. Engaged in the research work on science and technology and development strategy at enterprises, research institutes, and the state industrial departments for a long time. Carried out much engineering and theoretical research work on the judgment, selection and orderly promotion of the technical advance strategy for the iron and steel industry, published a series of papers and wrote the Metallurgical Flow Engineering, Engineering Philosophy and other monographs. Won the Science & Technology Award granted by the Ministry of Metallurgy, the National Award for Scientific & Technical Advancement, and China Engineering Science & Technology Award.
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President,
Global Metals, China
Qualification:学历
1991 -1994 University of New South Wales, Australia澳洲新南威尔斯大学
Bachelor of Economic经济学学士
Major in Accounting主修会计
1999 CPA of Australia澳洲注册会计师
Employment & Experience工作经验
1995 – 1998 International trade between Australia and China
中澳国际贸易
1998 – Present Director of Global Metals Co., Ltd
佛山市北方光电金属有限公司董事
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Shanghai Non-Ferrous Metals Trade Association
Turkish Iron and Steel Producers
Association
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