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Weidong li, male, born in 1966, graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, Capital University of Economics and Business and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and obtained a bachelor of Engineering, a master of economics and a Doctor of philosophy degree. He is currently the president of China Tyre Retreading and Recycling Association and has served as deputy secretary general, Secretary general and vice president of China Association of Auctioneers. He has been engaged in economic and trade industry management for a long time, and has rich theoretical and practical experience in association construction and management.
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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.
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Martin von Wolfersdorff is an independent strategic consultant specialising in carbon materials such as carbon black, recovered carbon black, graphene and carbon nanotubes. With Smithers, he founded the recovered Carbon Black Conference Series in 2019. Martin is also documenting about 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).
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.
Andy Yuan is the Business Development Director at Enrestec. Having joined Enrestec since 2010, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing the industry with innovative pyrolysis technology applied on ELTs (end-of-life tires), both in Taiwan and across Asia, with a global outlook. In 2019, Andy took charge of the Eco-Infinic project in Thailand, overseeing the construction of a state-of-the-art pyrolysis plant with an impressive capacity of 100,000 tons of ELTs processed annually. Additionally, in 2021, he successfully managed the expansion of Enrestec's Taiwan plant, elevating the total processing capacity to 60,000 tons of ELTs in Taiwan.
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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.
Feng Lu has been committed to the research and development (R&D) of organic waste (scrap tire, waste plastic, oil sludge, biomass, household waste and other industrial solid waste) pyrolysis technology. She is the core member of Niutech’s technology R&D team. Up to now, as an inventor, she has applied for and been authorized 20 national patents. Participated in the compilation of the book “Scrap Rubber Pyrolysis and Thermal Energy Utilization” in rubber pyrolysis, drafted relevant national standards for organic waste pyrolysis industry, and prepared corporate standards for Niutech. The “oil sludge pyrolysis treatment complete set of equipment” which she has participated was included in the “Catalogue of Major Environmental Protection Technologies and Equipment Encouraged by the State (2020 edition)” by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Ecological Environment. She participated in the R&D of “industrial continuous oil sludge pyrolysis technology and equipment”, which has won the “China’s good technology” award. The “R&D of paint residue resource treatment technology and equipment” was included in the first batch of Shandong Provincial Technology Innovation Plan project in 2022 by Shandong Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology. In addition, she has won many other awards and honours.
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).
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.
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.