- Smithers representative
- CTRA representative
- CACE representative
- EcoStar representative
Ms. Youlai WU joined Michelin Groupe in 2001 and held technical & management positions in Michelin R&D & Michelin China Investment. From April 2023, Ms. WU takes the post of Sustainability Manager of Michelin China.
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Chen Xiaoyan has been actively exploring high-quality development related to ecological priorities and green development, leading her team to develop the internationally leading "intelligent green cracking for waste tires and carbon black deep processing equipment". She has also lead the construction of three "Industry 4.0" intelligent factories for waste tire recycling. Her work has been helping the industry to develop in a green and sustainable way.
Paul Ita runs Notch Consulting, a Massachusetts-based research company dedicated to the market research needs of the global specialty chemicals industry. Mr. Ita focuses on raw materials for the global tire and rubber industries, with a particular focus on carbon black, silica, and rubber chemicals. Through Notch, he publishes the Carbon Black World Data Book and the Carbon Black Quarterly Newsletter.
Chinmoy Dhole has 18+ years of carbon black experience in a variety of specialty applications. He joined Birla Carbon in 2010, Mumbai. Chinmoy holds a Master degree in Polymer from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Jian Feng is the global marketing manager for sustainable solutions of
Reinforcement Materials business segment at Cabot Corporation. He has over 18 years of experience in the rubber and carbon black industry. He joined Cabot in 2012 and started his marketing role in 2015 after 3 years role in technical service manager, where he has held different marketing role in the business, including regional marketing manager, global marketing manager for industrial rubber products, and most recently was appointed as global marketing manager for sustainable solution. In this new role, he leads the strategy development for Cabot Sustainable solutions and leads various sustainability projects and commercialize Cabot EVOLVE sustainable solutions
Martin von Wolfersdorff is an independent strategic consultant specialising in carbon materials such as carbon black, recovered carbon black, graphenes and carbon nanotubes. With Smithers, he founded the recovered Carbon Black Conference Series in 2019. Martin is also documenting the circular economy with tires on popular social media like Linkedin, Youtube and Instagram. Prior to his consulting business, Martin had leadership roles in the carbon black, plastic colour concentrates and titanium dioxide industries. He is a chemical engineer (Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and certified coach (EASC).
Pieter ter Haar is Director Sustainable carbonaceous materials for Circtec, and an expert in recovered carbon black (rCB), pyrolysis, and a former rubber compounder. He is also one of the founding members of ASTM committee D36 on recovered carbon black, and in his current role as ASTM D36 Chair he leads this committee. He holds a Chemistry degree and has over 12 years of experience in using and producing rCB.
Circtec converts ELT into renewable transport fuels, circular chemicals and recovered carbon black. Circtec is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with activities in 5 European countries. Circtec has invested significant resources the last 15 years into developing and maturing proprietary technology and products.
Pieter is also part of the Advisory committee of the Smithers Recovered Carbon Black World conferences in Europe.
Zhao Xiaogang, male, 38 years old, a member of the Communist Party of China, with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, is dedicated to the field of recycling used tires. He has been professionally engaged in the hot pyrolysis industry of used tires for 13 years and has participated in the formulation of two national standards and two industrial standards. He is currently the general manager of Shandong Hesheng Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. and the president of the Pyrolysis Branch of the China Tire Recycling Utilization Association.
Dr. Liang Chen's current research focuses on using synchrotron X-ray three-dimensional imaging and X-ray scattering techniques to study the dynamic behavior of composite rubber materials reinforced with carbon black and silica, including natural rubber and silicone rubber. He tracks in situ the crystallization behavior of rubber molecular chains under dynamic conditions, the alternating soft-hard network formed by crystallization, and their relationship with the mechanical properties of the materials. He also examines the fracture, slippage, and elastic deformation of the three-dimensional carbon black filler network and their quantitative relationship with the energy dissipation in the composites. His research has provided a deeper understanding of the fundamental properties of rubber under dynamic environments and the mechanisms of reinforcement and toughening of composites through nanoparticle reinforcement. Additionally, he has gained significant insights into enhancing composite material performance through technical methods and formulation improvements. His work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key projects of the Joint Fund, and sub-projects of national key projects.
Zhenbin Zhu has 12+ years of powder treatment process experience in difference variety applications. Hosokawa has been building a benchmark product for global powder industry from 1898 and also successfully continued this in China under his propelled. He started his career from Hosokawa Nederland in 2012 and he was appointed as Head of Sales for Hosokawa China in 2024. Zhu holds a master degree in chemistry technology from COU (Finland).
Wang Beibei, working at Qingdao BlackCat New Materials Research Institute Co., Ltd., majoring in Polymer Materials and Engineering, a senior engineer. She has been engaged in the research and development related to waste tire pyrolysis for many years and has conducted long-term research on the characteristics and modification methods of recovered carbon black.
Jörg holds a PhD in aerosol science from ETH Zurich. Based on his year-long experience measuring airborne nanoparticles in the atmosphere and laboratory, he developed an analysis concept to measure the mass and structure of nanoparticles. As a co-founder of femtoG, a Swiss start-up, he set out to revolutionize the analysis of recovered Carbon Blacks and other nanostructured materials.
Yogesh has 13+ years of experience in chemicals and material science, analyzing petroleum products and participating in leading R&D projects in the carbon black industry. A graduate of an MSc program in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Mumbai, Yogesh worked with carbon black production technologies and feedstock, focused at final product applications. Working as a lab analyst, quality assurance officer, research associate, laboratory manager, technical and product development manager, he supported Gharda Chemicals, Geo Chemical Laboratories Pvt., Birla Carbon, Phillips Carbon Black and BKT Carbon.
Jessica Liu, Deputy General Manager and Senior Engineer of Niutech Environment Technology Corporation, has nearly 18 years of experience in the field of organic waste pyrolysis, and used to play as a leading role during the negotiation of the biggest organic solid and hazardous waste pyrolysis project in China and achieved win-win cooperation with the client, and has a profound insight into green and resourceful treatment schemes and differences for waste tires, waste plastics and oily sludge.
Zhou Shifeng, General Manager of Qingdao Hailang Holding Co., Ltd., holds., Master of Business Administration, Intermediate Engineer. He successfully propelled Doublestar Tires to become a global benchmark for "Industry 4.0" and led the Ecostar Environmental Industry to achieve iterative upgrades in the technology of waste tire pyrolysis. He has created a new green production model and business format that leads the industry, becoming the only enterprise in the industry with a complete industrial chain and full-process self-owned procedures, including raw material classification, processing, intelligent pyrolysis, and deep processing of carbon black.
Dr. Baojia Cheng is currently working as Head of Technical Service & Development, NorthEast Asia, ARLANXEO. He has started his technical career for elastomer products since 2003, and was appointed as Senior Technical Manager, Manager Global Business Intelligence & Marketing China, Head of Rubber Research Center, Head of TSAD and R&D Center, Head of TSAD Asia. Before that, Dr. Cheng was appointed as R&D manager for TPE compounding in Taiwan Synthetic Rubber Corporation (TSRC).
Celso Magri is Global Marketing and Sustainability Director at Orion, a global carbon black producer. He has 25 years of experience in the chemical industry, leading business and marketing organisations globally. He has lived and worked in South and North America and in 4 European countries and has extensive experience in Asia. He is passionate about sustainability and has led Life Cycle Analysis of different polymers for several applications while working for Dow Chemical, Styron, and Trinseo. He worked with the plastics value chain to design products to reduce the overall environmental impact.
His job at Orion is to develop and implement the sustainability strategy for the Rubber Business, working with the tire value chain on the transition to the tire circular economy.
Senior engineer of the National Engineering Research Center for Advanced Equipment and Key Materials of Tires of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, general manager of a discipline company. One of the research directions is the high-value application of pyrolysis carbon black.
Phil has thirty years’ experience in working with rubber / elastomeric materials, in a broad range of industries in senior engineering and technical leadership roles.
Phil has gained invaluable experience in Aerospace and Defence, Space, Automotive and General Manufacturing industries in roles ranging from works chemist, design, production and process engineering, operational and project management, senior quality, and engineering director level leadership.
The breadth and depth of experience Phil has gained provides him with a unique insight into the importance of balancing rubber material design, application and manufacturing lean processes with today’s high performance operating environments, system integration and environmental legislative needs.
Phil has the “firsthand” experience of the challenges industries and end users face and more importantly the necessary robust solutions needed to overcome these issues at both the tactical and strategic levels within an organisation.
Professor Du is mainly engaged in teaching and scientific research on the structure and performance of polymer materials. Her current main research direction is the structure, performance, processing and application of polymer materials featuring rubber, focusing on the reinforcement and high performance of rubber, the recycling of rubber resources, and the shock absorption and fatigue of rubber. She has presided over and completed many governmental supported projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC) and Shandong Provincial Fundation; presided over and completed more than 30 military projects and corporate cooperation projects; won 1 third prize for scientific and technological inventions in Shandong Province, published more than 200 research papers in important domestic and foreign journals, more than 50 papers included in SCI, and published 7 books.