39th International Conference and Exhibition ICSOBA 2021
Overview
- The 39th International Conference and Exhibition of ICSOBA (The International Committee for Study of Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium) was held from 22 to 24 November 2021 online. The conference covered bauxite, alumina, bauxite residue, carbon for aluminium electrolysis, aluminium production, and aluminium recycling in a variety of technical sessions.
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the ICSOBA 2021 was held as a virtual event to ensure the health, safety and comfort for all delegates, in line with our vision to be “the technology conference of the aluminium industry, for the aluminium industry”.
- With over 300 delegates registered for the conference, 39 corporate members and 15 sponsors the organizers of ICSOBA 2021 are humbled by this realization.
- The program included 10 high-caliber keynote speakers and 98 technical papers presented in two parallel sessions. In addition, two virtual plant tours of Alba Smelter and EGA Al-Taweelah Refinery were organized, as well as a discussion panel on strategic supply of alumina.
- For the first time this year several companies were invited to present their profile between the technical sessions. GEA, Jingjin Environment Protection, NALCO, Tokai Cobex, Eqip, ABC Flex and Trimet benefited from this opportunity.
- A complete set of documents (TRAVAUX book No. 50, presentations, exhibitor documents, recorded Question and Answer sessions, etc.,) were still available for download until recently on the vFairs partner’s platform (https://icsoba2021.vfairs.com/en/). As usual, all papers published in the TRAVAUX book, as well as the presentations, will be accessible from the ICSOBA website at https://icsoba.org/proceedings/.
- ICSOBA was fortunate to have Alba as the Host Sponsor fully committed and motivated to support ICSOBA in this endeavor. Now, more than ever, during these challenging times, we deeply appreciate the staunch support of various businesses and individuals. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to the conference this year. In addition, the organizers are deeply grateful to the partners and sponsors who have worked with us at all stages of this important industry event.
Virtual Lobby of ICSOBA 2021
Auditorium of ICSOBA 2021
Agenda of ICSOBA 2021
Exhibition hall of ICSOBA 2021
Networking lounge of ICSOBA 2021
Download center of ICSOBA 2021
中国铝工业的发展成就及未来展望
中国铝工业高质量发展的目标和进展
节能低碳数智化铝电解关键技术开发及应用
中国宏桥集团——可持续发展、先进技术、研发和创新之旅
张怀涛
信发集团副总经理
循环经济驱动绿色低碳高质量发展实践创新
从区域错配到协同优化2024年中国阳极产业解读
铝工业关键挑战的全球合作
构建负责任且可持续的铝价值链：铝业管理倡议（ASI）的作用与进展
国际铝业协会铝土矿与氧化铝委员会：行业合作的蓝图
国际铝业协会铝土矿与氧化铝委员会：行业合作的蓝图
市场对接 - 中国和西方铝工业技术供应商的战略路径
采用垂直惰性阳极、阴极及侧壁的零碳铝生产技术
NEUI600高电流铝电解槽的技术经济优势及应用进
全球氧化铝与铝市场回顾与展望
印度一体化铝生产企业的历程：欣铝公司（Hindalco）雷努库特工厂
康义
刘万超
李劼
罗恩·耐普
张怀涛
姜冰
Miles Prosser
董春明
Sébastien Fortin
Lance Myers
任晓鸥
Jon H Magnusson
班允刚
曹阳
Sameer Nayak
康义
教授级高级工程师，曾担任青铜峡铝厂厂长、中国有色金属工业总公司副总经理、中国有色金属工业协会会长等。
Biography
康义，教授级高级工程师，曾担任青铜峡铝厂厂长、中国有色金属工业总公司副总经理、中国有色金属工业协会会长等。
刘万超
中铝郑州有色金属研究院有限公司总经理
Biography
劉萬超博士現任中鋁國際鄭州有色金屬研究院有限公司總經理，中國有色金屬學會輕金屬分會常務理事。主要從事鋁行業資源綜合利用和環境保護技術研究。在赤泥利用、電解鋁危廢治理、冶金煙氣治理、碳排放治理等領域取得了一系列產業化技術進展。
李劼
中南大学 教授
Biography
李劼，中南大学二级教授、博士生导师，“长江学者奖励计划”特聘教授，低碳有色冶金国家工程研究中心主任。长期从事智能与数字冶金（铝电解）的科学研究与成果转化，已发表学术论文600余篇，获授权发明专利380余项，获国家科技进步奖3项、省部级科技进步一等奖8项。
罗恩·耐普
顾问 董事长办公室 中国宏桥集团有限公司（香港)
Biography
罗恩在2020年1月加入了中国宏桥集团，之前在国际铝业协会（伦敦）担任秘书长11年。再之前曾任澳大利亚铝业委员会执行董事（2002-2008）、伦敦世界煤炭研究所首席执行官（1997-2001）和澳大利亚矿产委员会高级职务（1987-1996）。在这些任命之前，罗恩是澳大利亚政府的一名经济专家（1976-1987）。罗恩是澳大利亚人，在澳大利亚有一个小型肉牛养殖场。
中国宏桥集团是世界上最大的综合性铝业公司之一，基于重大直接投资和长期战略合作伙伴关系，在整个产业链上开展了广泛的活动。中国宏桥高度重视环境保护、节能和可持续发展，以清洁绿色生产和高价值产品为核心业务目标。其生产主要由中国的业务主导，再加上印尼和几内亚的重要资源开发。
张怀涛
信发集团副总经理
Biography
姜冰
索通发展股份有限公司产业信息中心总监，北京，中国
Biography
姜冰先生现任索通发展股份有限公司产业信息中心总监，从事铝用预焙阳极行业20年，专注于产业战略分析、政策解读、市场趋势预测与价格建模研究。他长期与全球知名铝业公司及国际咨询机构保持紧密合作，其供需分析和成本模型获得行业广泛认可，是中国阳极产业发展历程的重要参与者和见证者。
Miles Prosser
国际铝业协会，英国伦敦
Biography
Miles Prosser is the Secretary General of the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), the only body that represents the aluminium industry at the global level. With more than twenty years’ experience working on various industry policy issues, Miles brings in-depth knowledge on resource allocation, sustainability and climate change.
Miles joined the IAI from the Australian Aluminium Council, where he served as Executive Director for more than ten years. He leads the IAI to promote the unique and valuable properties of aluminium in sustainable development. He holds an honours degree from the Australian National University. He is a member of the Institute of Directors in London.
董春明
尚轻金属咨询, 中国北京
Biography
董春明先生是尚轻时代金属信息咨询公司总经理，铝业管理倡议ASI顾问，全球铝箔生产商倡议组织中国协调员，尚镁网创始人。董先生曾经在中国有色金属工业协会和安泰科信息公司工作，负责铝和镁的信息咨询和行业研究。2026年创办尚轻时代金属，从事铝镁轻金属产业与市场研究、信息咨询、商务服务，为诸多国内外企业和机构提供了相关服务。他同时积极倡导铝镁行业公益，传播行业可持续发展理念和信息，推动产业链国际交流与合作。
Sébastien Fortin
力拓, 加拿大萨格奈
Biography
Sébastien Fortin is currently Principal Advisor Research and Development for Bauxite and Alumina in the Strategy & Innovation team of Rio Tinto’s Arvida Research Centre in Canada. He obtained his PhD in chemistry nearly 25 years ago and has been with the company’s Bauxite and Alumina R&D division ever since, in various scientific, managerial and strategic roles. He complemented this with 3 years in operations at the QAL refinery in Australia. In October 2024, he was appointed Chairman of the International Aluminium Institute’s Bauxite and Alumina Committee, and that is in this role that he will speak.
Lance Myers
镁铝澳大利亚, 澳大利亚佩斯
Biography
Lance Myers is the Development Program Manager in Alcoa's Operational Excellence COE in Western Australia. He graduated with Honours in Chemistry from the University of Western Australia in 1998 and joined Alcoa as a Research Chemist. Over his 26-year career at Alcoa Lance has focused on refining technology development, taking on both scientific and managerial roles. He earned a master's in business administration from the University of Western Australia in 2009, and in October 2024 was appointed Vice-Chair of the International Aluminium Institute’s Bauxite and Alumina Committee.
任晓鸥
尚轻金属咨询, 加拿大多伦多
Biography
Michael Ren is the President of Sunlightmetal Consulting Inc., a Toronto-based firm specializing in bridging the aluminium industries of China and the Western world. With over 20 years of experience in the aluminium sector, Mr. Ren has developed deep expertise in international business development, market strategy, and cross-border collaboration.
Jon H Magnusson
Arctus 铝业, 冰岛雷克雅维克
Biography
Jon H Magnusson is CEO and Founder of the Icelandic company Arctus Aluminium, which in collaboration with the Icelandic research institute IceTec, has pioneered a carbon-free aluminium production process with vertical inert electrodes in low temperature electrolyte. This approach has successfully demonstrated high-purity aluminium production at IceTec and in a pilot plant at Arctus´ industrial partner; Trimet Aluminium in Essen, Germany.
Jon was installed 2003 as an Honorary Professor at the Southern Institute of Metallurgy, now; Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou Jiangxi, People's Republic of China. The citation refers to his "..outstanding achievements in the aluminium industry.”
Jon participated in sports and competed in Handball in the Olympic games in Munchen 1972.
班允刚
东北大学工程设计研究院有限公司，中国沈阳
Biography
NFC/NEUI is an important technology supplier and service provider in China's aluminum industry, making significant contributions to the rapid development of the industry and the large-scale and low-carbon development of core technology equipment. As one of the early companies in the global aluminum industry to develop and apply 600 kA aluminum reduction cell technology, NFC/NEUI has widely applied NEUI600 technology in domestic capacity replacement projects and overseas capacity construction. As of the end of 2024, a total of 15 potlines have been applied, with a total capacity of 6 180 ktpa. Following the first successful 600 kA potline in Weiqiao smelter at the end of 2014, the longest operating time has been over 10 years, the highest amperage can reach 630 kA or above, and rich experience in design, construction and operation has been accumulated.
曹阳
Fastmarkets（快速市场资讯）中国上海
Biography
曹旸在铝行业拥有超过10年的经验。他是Fastmarkets铝周报的编辑和高级研究分析师。曹旸持有约克大学硕士学位，并是特许金融分析师。
Sameer Nayak
欣铝工业公司（Hindalco Industries），印度雷努库特
Biography
Sameer Nayak is the President & Cluster Head of Hindalco Industries Ltd , Renukoot , India which operates an Integrated Aluminium complex having a 410 ktpa Smelter, 830 MW Captive power plant, 720 ktpa Alumina Refinery and Fabrication plants (Rolled and extrusion plants). He has rich experiences in Metals and Mining and Power sector. He specializes in streamlining Operations of Big plants and has rich experiences in Projects erections and commissioning of Mega Projects. He has made significant contributions to the business across plants improving volumes, productivity, quality and reliability and is passionate about driving safety and sustainability at plants. He is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate and has 28 years of Industry experience mostly in Metals and Power.
Сompanies that have submitted abstracts of technical papers:
ORGANIZING and TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
With Michel Reverdy as Program Director the ICSOBA 2021 Technical Committee was composed as follows:
| Subject | Subject organizer | Reviewers |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Michel Reverdy | According to subject |
| Bauxite, Alumina, Bauxite Residue | Andrey Panov Carlos Suarez Thymis Balomenos | Steven Healy, George Banvolgyi, Stephan Beaulieu, Patrick James, Ajamu Duncan, Evandro Leao, Gokhan Demir, Helen Adamson, Frank Feret, Bijoy Satpathy, Andrey Panov, Carlos Suarez, Thymis Balomenos |
| Aluminium Reduction Technology | Vinko Potocnik | Stephan Broek, André-Felipe Shneider, Dagoberto Severo, Yashar Koçaefe, Kristian Einarsrud, Vinko Potocnik, BalK Kakkar |
| Carbon | Houshang Alamdari | Duygu Kocaefe, Gøril Jahrsengene |
ICSOBA 2021 President
Dr. Abdulla Habib
Chief Operating Officer, Aluminium Bahrain
Short BioAluminium is the metal of the future. As the world’s largest aluminium smelter ex-China, we believe in partnering with industry-specific associations such as ICSOBA that will enable us to exchange and transfer knowledge as well as best practices. Through this, we aim to achieve efficient and cost-effective solutions that will help us stay ahead of the curve in an ever-changing global environment. This in turn will translate Alba’s Vision ‘To be the number one aluminium supplier for the generations to come.
Dr. Abdulla Habib Ahmed
Chief Operating Officer, Aluminium Bahrain
Biography
Dr. Abdulla Habib Ahmed is currently Chief Operations Officer, Aluminium of Bahrain (Alba). His work experience includes 25 years in various roles in Reduction Lines, R&D and Customers Technical Support. He has PhD in Chemical Engineering and Master in Aluminium Smelting and MBA from ESSEC/ French Arabian School and had his higher education from University of New South Wales, Australia.
Student Grants
No student awards were considered at the virtual ICSOBA 2021 conference. However, for the last several years ICSOBA (registered in the province of Quebec) supports JER (Journée des Étudiants) conference organized by The Aluminium Research Centre – REGAL and offers a monetary funding. The REGAL brings together 36 regular members, 45 collaborator members from the public and private sectors, and about 170 students.
2021 Conference Satisfaction Survey
An online satisfaction survey (which begun in 2016) was carried out again following Virtual ICSOBA 2021. As this conference was the second consecutive of its kind, a significant number of 39 questions dealt with the virtual aspect of the conference. The feedback that the ICSOBA Board obtained from the survey is highly valuable. With ICSOBA 2020 as a reference the main results could be summarized as follows:
- A response rate confirms strong interest of ICSOBA delegates to provide feedback. 99 answers were collected which ensures a good representativity of the results.
- The main feedback is a very strong support to ICSOBA decision to go virtual in 2021. The choice to use a virtual platform rather than a “simple” webinar type conference was supported by 91% of the respondents. Connection to and navigation within the vFairs platform was very well rated. Organization of the Q&A session by block of 4 speakers was also fully supported (85%).
- The survey attendance was 30% for Bauxite & Alumina stream with 67% for Carbon and Smelting.
- With a 55% ratio, producers were again the most represented with the highest participation ever.
- Conference agenda in a flipbook format was highly rated. The absence of duplication of session was greatly supported at the level of 86%, thanks to the on-demand capability. Video on-on-demand was very much appreciated (78%) as well as resource downloading (81%), but some delegates experienced difficulties downloading multiple documents. For the virtual event, the audio and video quality of the broadcast is a must, on which we cannot compromise.
- The results on exhibition confirm those of the last year: our delegates value an exhibition (67%), but none of the proposed formats is clearly preferred. The new feature of “Company Presentation” was well received with some good improvement suggestions.
- We noted with great satisfaction that the technical quality of articles (79%) and 73% for innovative content has improved further compared to previous years.
- The forecast to attend next year Conference is 86%, back to the 2019 value and well above the 56% “historical rating“.
- The bi-annual Newsletter is confirmed as the preferred communication channel with same % as last year (42%)
The ICSOBA Board of Directors needed comprehensive feedback on Virtual ICSOBA 2021 to influence future ICSOBA events to adopt the most efficient and beneficial format. We received many suggestions regarding all points; this gives us great confidence for an improved format in the future. Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and we thank you for your participation.