SMM visited Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Research Institute to learn more about manganese plate and waste lithium battery recycling platform.

Published: Jul 24, 2020 17:36

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SMM7: on July 24th, Fan Xin, CEO of Shanghai Nonferrous net, and Yu Lei, Department of New Energy, went to Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Research Institute to study and visit, and exchanged views on the business plate. At the same time, they had an in-depth understanding of Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Research Institute's new energy manganese plate and waste lithium battery recycling platform. Li Xiaojun, deputy general manager of Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Institute, Ye Mao, general manager of Hunan Jinrui Xinye, Chen Xiaozhi, deputy general manager of Hunan Jinrui Xinye, Li Chongyang and Guo Chang, battery recycling department of Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Institute, attended altogether. The two sides look forward to in-depth cooperation in the fields of new energy materials, development and utilization of metal mineral resources, metallurgical and environmental protection, testing and analysis.

Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Research Institute Co., Ltd. (referred to as Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Institute) was founded in 1955. It was successively affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, transformed into a large science and technology enterprise directly under the central government in 1999, and was directly managed by the State-owned assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council in 2003. In 2009, it became a directly managed scientific research unit of China Minmetals Group Co., Ltd. It has 13 national, provincial and ministerial-level R & D platforms, such as the National Engineering and Technology Research Center for the Comprehensive Utilization of Metal Mineral Resources and the State key Laboratory for the Development and Utilization of Deep-sea Mineral Resources.

As a major innovation base for the development and utilization of national metal resources, Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Institute has been the main undertaking unit of the national science and technology plan for the development and utilization of metal mineral resources since its establishment, and has made more than 1200 national, provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological achievements. It has made outstanding contributions to the technological progress of the industry. After 30 years of implementation of the national marine strategy, China has successfully carried out the first deep-sea transport test and seabed mining test, mastered the core technology for the development and utilization of deep-sea mineral resources, and ranked among the international advanced ranks.

As a member of the electric vehicle industry alliance of central enterprises, it has been specialized in the research and development of new energy materials for 30 years, and has formed a complete innovative and entrepreneurial chain of "basic research-technological development-pilot incubation-industrial transformation-leading demonstration". With "one hospital, two gardens, one base and one fund" (Changsha New Energy Materials Industry Technology Research Institute, China Minmetals Lushan Science and Technology Innovation Park, China Minmetals Lushan Science and Technology Industrial Park, China Minmetals National New Energy Materials Industry Base, new energy materials mass entrepreneurship and innovation fund) as the construction content, jointly build the "China Minmetals New Energy Materials Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation demonstration Base" with the people's Government of Changsha to gather global high-end talents and leaders. Attract domestic and foreign entrepreneurial and innovative enterprises to create the world's most important collaborative innovation platform for new energy materials science and technology.

Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Institute adheres to the innovative development model of "technology research and development, industrial incubation, and achievement transfer". After more than 60 years of reform and development, Changsha Mining and Metallurgical Institute has trained a large number of scientific and technological innovation talents headed by academicians Yu Yongfu and Liu Baochen. It has won more than 500 national and provincial-level scientific and technological achievements awards such as "China's Top Ten Scientific and technological achievements" and "National Science and Technology Progress Award", and has incubated Jinrui Technology (now renamed Minmetals Capital. High-tech enterprise clusters represented by Stock Code 600390), Huitong New Materials (Stock Code 833751), long-term Lithium, Jinchi Materials, Golden Furnace Technology, etc., provide strong scientific and technological support for the group to build a "world-class metal mineral enterprise group".

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