The recently completed Summit in Shanghai with over 300 attendees and 45 speakers represented over 80% of the copper end-use market.
The 2019 International Copper Industry Summit (ICIS), co-organized by International Copper Association (ICA) and Jiangxi Copper Corporation and under the guidance of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), just took place in Shanghai.
The summit is the first high-level dialogue and cooperation platform for the copper industry in China that involves the whole industrial chain, focusing on innovation and sustainable development. The summit was also supported by more than 20 institutions, including the Shanghai Futures Exchange, Jinrui Futures Co., Ltd., the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNMIA), and the China Electricity Council among others.
The one-day summit brought together more than 300 attendees from government agencies, industry associations, upstream and downstream enterprises in the copper industry, academics, as well as financial institutions.
ICA China and the Nanjing Qingyan Green Manufacturing Research Institute of Tsinghua University jointly announced the establishment of the International Collaborative Innovation Center for High Efficiency Electrical Motors.
ICA China released the first China Copper Demand Index (CCDI), a scientific index system to reflect current copper demands from the whole society and major copper end-use industries, which takes into account both core indicators of China’s five major copper end-use industries and macroeconomic indicators.
ICA China also announced the winners of its “ICIS Award”, the first award in the copper industry that aims to acknowledge the most forward-looking and innovative projects, encourage technological innovation, and promote the green development of China’s copper industry chain.
Eight projects were recognized with the award for their outstanding advances in innovation, environmental protection, and market potential, including the “new high-efficiency recovery technology for ultra-low-grade copper tailings” from Dexing Copper Mine of Jiangxi Copper Corporation and the “research and industrialization of key technology for cast copper rotors used by small and medium-sized high-efficiency motors” from Yunnan Copper Die-casting Technology Co., Ltd.