Programme
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Tuesday, 8 November
Registration open
17:00 – 19:30
Welcome reception
18:00 – 19:30
Wednesday, 9 November
Registration open
08:00 – 17:00
Welcome coffee Sponsored by SMS group GmbH
08:00 – 09:00
Conference programme
09:00 – 10:10
Refreshment break Sponsored by SMS group GmbH
10:10 – 10:40
Conference programme
10:40 – 12:05
Lunch
12:05 – 13:35
Conference programme
13:35 – 15:00
Refreshment break Sponsored by SMS group GmbH
15:00 – 15:30
Conference programme
15:30 – 17:00
Close of conference
17:00
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Tuesday, 8 November
17:00
Registration opens
18:00
Welcome reception
Wednesday, 9 November
08:00
Registration opens
08:00
Welcome coffee
Sponsored by SMS Group GmbH
09:00
Chairman’s opening remarks
Jorn de Linde, Senior Vice President, CRU
09:05
Keynote presentation: Ferroglobe: Company and market
Pedro Larrea Paguaga, Chief Executive Officer, Ferroglobe
09:25
09:45
Silicon: Opportunities and challenges
When will the silicon market see a sustained recovery?
What are the major risk factors?
Jorn de Linde, Senior Vice President, CRU
Topic to be announced
Dmitry Kubar, Head of Silicon Metal Sales, UC RUSAL (subject to final confirmation)
10:05
Questions and answers
10:10
Refreshment break
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Raw materials
10:40
Focus on the outlook for quartz
Speaker to be announced
11:00
Electricity market outlook
Speaker to be announced
11:20
11:40
What are the challenges and opportunities for reductants in harsh climatic conditions?
Reductants are a vital component of silicon metal production; how does proximity to production sites affect
the overall costing of production?
Safe stocking under different climates and different geographical regions
Dr. Bhakta Hari Agasti, Managing Director, Carbon Partners AS
Trends and developments in the electrodes sector
Ivan Kosarev, CEO, Energoprom
12:00
Questions and answers
12:05
Lunch
Demand drivers
13:35
Trends in polysilicon production: Supply and demand
Speaker to be announced
13:55
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Aluminium and silicon metal demand
Aluminium demand from transport
Castings (Si rich) scrap supply
Primary foundry alloy supply
Eoin Dinsmore, Principal Consultant, Aluminium, CRU
Wednesday, 9 November
China
14:15
14:35
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Is China a market economy or not? What the change in status could mean for the silicon industry
What implications will Brexit have?
Arnoud R Willems, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
An industry in transition
How will the build-up of new capacity in Xinjiang transform silicon production in China? What is happening?
What are the implications for silicon consumers and producers in China as well as globally?
What does our cost work on China tell us about likely changes?
Cathy Kang, Analyst, CRU
14:55
Questions and answers
15:00
Refreshment break
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Enhancing technologies
15:30
Topic to be announced
Speaker to be announced, SMS group GmbH
15:50
Tapping Si furnaces using advanced oxygen lances
Peter Sylven, President and CEO, Envycome
16:10
Silicon Metal furnace development: A technology provider’s perspective
Speaker to be announced, Tenova Pyromet
16:35
Recycling polysilicon waste and polysilicon
Jan-Philipp Mai, Founder & CEO, JPM Silicon GmbH
16:55
Closing remarks
17:00
Close of conference