Launch of "SMM Responsible Metal" & Strategic Signing Ceremony at AICE 2025 SMM (20th) Aluminum Industry Conference & Expo

On April 18, the AICE 2025 SMM (20th) Aluminum Industry Conference & Expo, hosted by SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. (SMM), co-organized by Zhongyifeng Jinyi Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and Lezhi County Qianrun Investment Promotion Service Co., Ltd., and sponsored by Shangli County Keyuan Metallurgical Materials Co., Ltd., Press Metal International Ltd., Delta Metal (Holdings) Limited, Jinqiao Light Alloy Technology (Jiangmen) Co., Ltd., and other entities as forum title sponsors, Sunstone Development Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Jialang Industrial Co., Ltd. as forum co-organizers, and supported by various specially invited supporters, conference supporters, conference acknowledgment units, and media partners, successfully concluded at the Suzhou International Expo Center in Jiangsu!

The summit featured multiple sessions, including the Alumina and Aluminum Raw Materials Forum, Aluminum Melting and Casting Technology Forum, Aluminum Die Casting Industry Development Forum, Supply and Demand Exchange - Domestic and International Aluminum Scrap Supply and Demand Forum, Aluminum Plate/Sheet, Strip and Foil Industry Development Forum, Main Forum, Aluminum Industry Chain Sustainable Development Forum, Global Secondary Aluminum Industry Development Forum, and Industrial Aluminum Extrusion Forum. As the annual pinnacle event for the global aluminum industry, this conference, with the strategic pillars of "Global Vision, Industry Insights, Green Future," brought together over a hundred international authoritative experts, academic giants, leading entrepreneurs, and government representatives to build a platform for intellectual exchange. The conference focused on core topics such as aluminum market trend analysis, price trend forecasting, supply-demand pattern dissection, business opportunity matching, and cutting-edge technology exchanges, conducting in-depth discussions from multiple dimensions to set the direction for industry development. Attendees directly addressed industry pain points, explored paths for industrial innovation, and unlocked new paradigms for clean and sustainable development around key themes such as green and low-carbon transformation and intelligent upgrading. Through innovative drive and cross-industry thinking collisions, the conference fostered consensus, integrated resources, and actively responded to global climate change and environmental governance challenges. This event established a high-end dialogue and resource integration platform, empowering industrial upgrading with wisdom and injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of the global aluminum industry, jointly drawing a new blueprint for the industry's future.

In addition, SMM meticulously prepared roundtable interview sessions across multiple forums, inviting many renowned industry experts and corporate executives to engage in intense intellectual collisions on various hot topics, including the green transformation of the aluminum industry - the development and outlook of the low-carbon aluminum market, internal and external challenges - exploring new paths for aluminum plate/sheet, strip and foil enterprises in the fog, roundtable interview: discussing new models for integrated die-casting cooperation from a supply chain perspective, the dragon soaring across the seas - China's aluminum industry from a global perspective, analysis of factors influencing aluminum prices in 2025 and market forecasts for the second half of the year, building a global green aluminum ecosystem (ESG aluminum prices, CBAM), and the market business models and overseas investment opportunities of global secondary aluminum.

Opening Speech at the Conference

Speaker: Logan Lu, CEO of SMM

Fiona Solomon, CEO of the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

Launch of "SMM Responsible Metal" & Strategic Signing Ceremony

Logan Lu, CEO of SMM

Yue Qingsong, General Manager of Risk Management Solutions Center and General Manager of Energy and Low-Carbon Business Unit, China, SGS

Tan Xingyuan, Project and Technology Director of Press Metal International Ltd.

Lei Liquan, Vice Chairman of Jinqiao Aluminum Group

Wang Lijiao, Deputy General Manager of Henan Mingtai Aluminum Industrial Co., Ltd.

Inga Simonenko, Head of Marketing and Low-Carbon Solutions, UC Rusal

Ning Degang, Deputy General Manager of Yunnan Aluminum Co., Ltd.

Dong Chunming, General Manager of Shangqing Times Metal, Founder of Shangmei.com, and Advisor to the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

Driven by global energy transformation and carbon neutrality goals, building a transparent, stable, and sustainable metal supply chain system has become an urgent strategic task for the entire industry. On April 17, at the Aluminum Industry Chain Sustainable Development Forum of the AICE 2025 SMM (20th) Aluminum Industry Conference & Expo, hosted by SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. (SMM), SMM Metal Trading Center, and Shandong Aisi Information Technology Co., Ltd., and co-organized by Zhongyifeng Jinyi (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and Lezhi County Qianrun Investment Promotion Service Co., Ltd., SMM and SGS, an internationally authoritative certification body, reached a historic cooperation to jointly launch the world's first "SMM Responsible Metal Framework."