Smithers is excited to announce the experts who will help shape the programme for the upcoming Recovered Carbon Black Asia.
These experts hail from across the supply chain, bringing years of knowledge and experience to curate a programme that is balanced, informative, and engaging.
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Paul Ita runs Notch Consulting, a Massachusetts-based research company dedicated to the market research needs of the global specialty chemicals industry. Mr. Ita focuses on raw materials for the global tire and rubber industries, with a particular focus on carbon black, silica, and rubber chemicals. Through Notch, he publishes the Carbon Black World Data Book and the Carbon Black Quarterly Newsletter.
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• Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 Kumho Petrochemicals / Specialty chemicals Sales
chemical sales for Tire/Syntetic Rubber/ ABS : Japan, India, N&S Americas
*Key Accounts : Bridgestone, Yokohama, Sumitomo, Toyo, MRF, Apollo, BSTE and so on
• Feb 2017 – Dec 2020 Lanxess Korea / TSR Business Unit Head
Synthetic Rubber(Butyl,NdBR,SSBR) Sales
*Key Accounts : Korean 3 tire makers, Hwaseung, Dong-ah, Sungnam and so on
• Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 ARLANXEO/ Regional Key Account Manager- Japan & Korea
Synthetic Rubber(Butyl,NdBR,SSBR) Sales
*Key Accounts : Korean and Japanese Tire Makers
• Current LD Carbon / Chief Commercial Officer, Founder
Leads LDC’s sales, purchasing and logistics operations
Martin von Wolfersdorff, trading as "Wolfersdorff Consulting Berlin”, is an expert advisor and business partner of Smithers specialising in sustainable carbon blacks. Martin works with Smithers on carbon black consulting projects, writes Smithers reports and is the founder and business partner of the recovered Carbon Black Conference. Martin's corporate assignments were in carbon black, plastic packaging, plastic masterbatch and titanium dioxide. Martin has a Dipl. Ing. (Univ.) degree in chemical engineering from the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.
Chen Xiaoyan has been actively exploring high-quality development related to ecological priorities and green development, leading her team to develop the internationally leading "intelligent green cracking for waste tires and carbon black deep processing equipment". She has also lead the construction of three "Industry 4.0" intelligent factories for waste tire recycling. Her work has been helping the industry to develop in a green and sustainable way.
Andy Yuan is the Business Development Director at Enrestec. Having joined Enrestec since 2010, he has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing the industry with innovative pyrolysis technology applied on ELTs (end-of-life tires), both in Taiwan and across Asia, with a global outlook. In 2019, Andy took charge of the Eco-Infinic project in Thailand, overseeing the construction of a state-of-the-art pyrolysis plant with an impressive capacity of 100,000 tons of ELTs processed annually. Additionally, in 2021, he successfully managed the expansion of Enrestec's Taiwan plant, elevating the total processing capacity to 60,000 tons of ELTs in Taiwan.
