Asian Metal visited Ningxia Non-ferrous Metal Import and Export Co. Ltd

Zhang Xiaoxin, general manager of minor metal department and Cai Hongjun, analyst of tantalum and niobium from Asian Metal visited Ningxia Non-ferrous Metal Import and Export Co., Ltd. on Aug 24, 2012.

Asian Metal visited Ningxia Non-ferrous Metal Import and Export Co. Ltd on the morning of Aug 24, and they were warmly received by Zhang Hongyue, administrative assistant general manager, Chenwu, deputy general manager and Tang Haimei, business manager from the company. Ningxia Non-ferrous Metal Import and Export Co. Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd., mainly engages in importing and exporting raw materials.

Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. was founded and registered with the approval of State Economic and Trade Commission and on Apr 30, 1999, and it issued 65 million of A Stock publicly on Nov 22, 1999 with public listing in Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Jan 20, 2000. As a leading enterprise in Chinese tantalum and niobium market, the company specializes in producing capacitor grade tantalum powder and tantalum wire for capacitor with advanced level in variety, specification and quality. Sales of its capacitor grade tantalum powder have ranked top three in the world for several years, and businesses of tantalum wire have ranked the first in the world for continuous ten years with 25% and 60% of market share for the two products. Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry has established long-term stable relation of demand and supply with tantalum capacitors from countries such as US, Britain, German, Japan and Korea. The company mainly produces six kinds of products such as tantalum metal and alloy, niobium metal and alloy, beryllium alloy, tantalum metal and alloy, photovoltaic materials and energy materials to be widely applied in fields such as electron, communication, aerospace, metallurgy, petroleum, chemical industry, lighting, sports, medical treatment, atomic energy and solar energy, etc.

Mr. Zhang and Mr. Chen discussed with Asian Metal on current tantalum and niobium market with views that domestic enterprises should take an active part in international market competition with a clear conception of Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and its principle. On enterprise development, Mr. Zhang noted that the company has invested other fields such as real estate, photovoltaics, refractory and ferroalloy with initial achievements based on its main businesses of tantalum and niobium. They proposed some comments and suggestions on collecting information of tantalum and niobium market for Asian Metal and led the visitors to look around the product exhibition room.

Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry received an inform of approval examination and authentication on non-conflicting smelter from EICC, which is beneficial for the company, indicating the company will become one of the most important suppliers of non-conflicting qualified tantalum with green passport for tantalum product sales in the world in the coming year.