Deepening Industry Exchange | SMM Visits Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electricity Co., Ltd. to Explore New Opportunities in Zinc Industry Development

Published: Jul 23, 2026 17:11

SMM, July 23:

To deepen exchanges within the lead and zinc industry, facilitate information channels, and accurately capture zinc industry development trends and market movements, on July 22, a team from SMM Information & Technology Co., Ltd. (SMM), including copper-lead-zinc senior analyst Geng Zhiyao and zinc senior analyst Li Hanyu, visited Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electricity Co., Ltd. for an exchange meeting and were warmly received by relevant company leaders.

During the meeting, relevant personnel from Luoping Zinc & Electricity introduced the company's operational status, industry chain layout, and medium and long-term strategic plans to the SMM team. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including domestic zinc raw material supply, smelting cost changes, zinc product market trends, downstream demand trajectories, comprehensive recovery of associated rare and precious metals, and the development direction of green smelting. Leveraging SMM's industry database, SMM analysts shared supply-demand analyses for the zinc market, price dynamics, and potential industry opportunities, and exchanged views with the company on challenges in industrial development. Luoping Zinc & Electricity, drawing on its own strengths in hydropower integration, mine resources, and integrated smelting and deep processing, outlined its advancement approaches in resource expansion, technological R&D, and extension into new materials.

This visit established a bridge for industry information sharing. In the future, both parties will maintain regular communication and exchanges, continuously collaborate to explore paths of industrial synergy, and jointly promote the steady and high-quality development of the zinc industry.

About Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electricity Co., Ltd.

Yunnan Luoping Zinc & Electricity Co., Ltd. was established in 2000 and listed on the main board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2007 (stock code 002114). Its largest shareholder is Qujing Development and Investment Group, holding a 22.3960% stake, and the actual controller is the Qujing Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

Key Assets: It encompasses three core resource sectors: minerals, hydropower, and zinc smelting, housing production units such as the Fule Lead-Zinc Mine, Lazhuang Power Plant, zinc smelter, comprehensive utilization plant, and ultrafine zinc powder plant. The company boasts an integrated capacity of processing 100,000 mt of raw ore annually, producing 120,000 mt of electrolytic zinc, 140,000 mt of sulphuric acid, 12,000 mt of ultrafine zinc powder, and generating 250 million kWh of electricity per year, with an annual output value exceeding 2 billion yuan. This forms a complete industry chain of "power generation — mining — smelting — rare and precious metals recovery — new materials." Coupled with its self-contained hydropower energy loop, this creates a unique core competitive advantage, positioning the company as a leader in the non-ferrous metal smelting sector in Southwest China.

Main Businesses: Hydropower generation, mining of non-ferrous metals such as lead and zinc, zinc smelting, and production and sale of extended products. The products include zinc sulfide concentrates, lead concentrates, zinc ingot, industrial sulphuric acid, cadmium, ultrafine zinc powder, germanium concentrates, silver concentrates, copper concentrates, zinc alloy, industrial and residential electricity, and edible rapeseed oil. The company has successively received honors such as “Contract-honoring and Credit-worthy Enterprise” at provincial and municipal levels, “Key Industrial Enterprise of Qujing City”, National Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise, High-tech Enterprise, and National Laboratory Accreditation Certificate.

Strategic Development: In terms of hydropower resource development, first, it invested in and participated in the construction of the Luoping County Laodukou Hydropower Station with an installed capacity of 37,500 kW, holding 37% equity; second, it invested in and participated in the construction of the Laojiāngdǐ Hydropower Station in Xingyi City, Guizhou Province, with an installed capacity of 100,000 kW, holding 33% equity. In terms of lead-zinc mine development, first, it invested in and participated in the development of the Jinsha Lead-zinc Mine in Yongshan County, holding 23.2% equity. Second, through a private placement of shares, it completed the overall acquisition of Puding County Xiangrong Mining, Derong Mining, and Hongtai Mining Co., Ltd. under Guizhou Fanhua Mining Group Co., Ltd., gaining control of the mine assets held by the three companies. In terms of business development, first, it acquired the sulphuric acid plant of the former Luoping County Zinc Electric Company. Second, it built a rapeseed oil production line with a capacity of 10,000 mt per year. Third, it established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Yunnan Luoping Zinc Electric New Materials Co., Ltd., to extend the industry chain through zinc alloy products. Technological Innovation: The company holds 78 patents. Among them, the comprehensive treatment and recovery of valuable metals from high-iron, low-germanium zinc oxide calcine and zinc sulfite is at an industry-leading level.


SMM Contact: Geng Zhiyao

Tel: 13818541149

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