VMRF’s Return Visit to SMM: A Milestone for Vietnam’s Recycled Metals Industry Cooperation

On July 10, a delegation from the Vietnam Metal Recycling Forum (VMRF) — including Anh, Tran Thi Van, Phuong and Hoang Minh — visited the headquarters of Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) in Shanghai. SMM CEO Logan Lu welcomed the guests, alongside Horin Dong (Senior Overseas Marketing Manager), Cindy Zhang (Global Recycled Metals Project Manager), Date Song (Global BD Manager, Base Metals Conferences & Events Team), and Catherine Zhan (Overseas Marketing Manager). The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions covering Southeast Asia’s recycled metals industrial chain services, overseas market expansion, and joint industry summit cooperation.

During the visit, SMM shared its latest global strategic layout. Against the backdrop of robust demand in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South Asia, SMM has set up new offices in Vietnam, South Korea, India and Zambia, forming a multi-regional overseas hub network. Through these local touchpoints, SMM will move closer to the upstream and downstream of local industry chains, providing more efficient one-stop market services to partners in Vietnam, ASEAN, and beyond for the recycled metals, aluminum, lead-acid battery, and ferrous metals sectors.

In addition, SMM also introduced three major industry events it will hold in ASEAN in H2:

• 2026 SMM Global Lead-Acid Battery Supply Chain Industry Conference (Nov 19-20) in Ho Chi Minh City;
• SMM AICE 2026 Southeast Asia (Vietnam) Aluminium Conference (Nov 23-24) in Ho Chi Minh City;
• -SMM ASEAN Ferrous Metals Summit 2026 (Nov 26-27) in Malaysia

Notably, in 2025, SMM Chairman Adam Fan led Catherine Zhan, SMM's Overseas Marketing Manager, on a trip to Vietnam to meet the VMRF team, where SMM introduced its comprehensive core businesses and service capabilities, including multi-commodity information, price data, industry surveys, and conferences and exhibitions, building a solid bridge for future cooperation. Now, a year later, this return visit by VMRF is of great significance to SMM and marks a further deepening of bilateral cooperation.

Group Photo of VMRF at the 2025 SMM APAC Lead-Acid Battery Industry Conference in Vietnam

Group Photo of the 2025 SMM Visit to VMRF

VMRF was established to connect enterprises, recycling plants, traders, and partners within Vietnam's metal recycling industry. As a platform for sharing information, reports, market trends, and technology, VMRF is committed to helping its members achieve sustainable development and elevate industry standards.

Since forging ties with VMRF at last year's offline event in Vietnam, SMM has placed great importance on the friendly cooperation with VMRF. In the future, SMM is looking forward to establishing a long-term, stable, and normalized deep collaboration mechanism with VMRF, continuously carrying out joint efforts in industry exchanges, market information sharing, and summit co-promotion. Leveraging SMM's multiple Southeast Asian industry conferences, both sides will strive to build a supply-demand matching platform and jointly support the standardized and international development of Vietnam's recycled metal industry chain.