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.
Anil Nandakumar is the Global Market Development Lead for Sustainable Solutions at Birla Carbon with over 22 years of experience in Marketing, Customer experience and new product introduction through the globe.
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.
Jeff Shiue has been serving as Eco Infinic's General Manager since 2024. He was a chemical engineer and joined Eco Infinic’s parent company Sheico Group after receiving an MBA from NYU in 2010. He was Sheico’s Director of Sales and R&D for 8 years and spearheaded efforts to make wetsuits more eco-friendly. As Sheico invested more resources to enable Eco Infinic to expand, Jeff transitioned full time to the subsidiary to guide its growth.
Calvin, graduated from Dalian University of Technology, has nearly 20 years of experience in leading companies in rubber industry. He worked at Michelin, responsible for formula development and factory quality improvement. Then ExxonMobil on technical services for synthetic rubber and resins, as well applications development technologies for tires and rubber products. And then Cabot Corporation as China technical services manager and later on as Asia Pacific Center R&D manager, and as well the lead scientist. Calvin is now the general manager of Shanghai Veco New Material Technology Co. Ltd.
Jian Feng is the global marketing manager for sustainable solutions of
Reinforcement Materials business segment at Cabot Corporation. He has over 18 years of experience in the rubber and carbon black industry. He joined Cabot in 2012 and started his marketing role in 2015 after 3 years role in technical service manager, where he has held different marketing role in the business, including regional marketing manager, global marketing manager for industrial rubber products, and most recently was appointed as global marketing manager for sustainable solution. In this new role, he leads the strategy development for Cabot Sustainable solutions and leads various sustainability projects and commercialize Cabot EVOLVE sustainable solutions
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.
Co-founder waste Tyre recycling businesses at Green Rubber Energy more than 10 years ago 1. Develop a strategic plan to advance the company's mission and objectives and to promote revenue, profitability, and growth as an organization. 2. Oversee company operations to insure production efficiency, quality, service 3. Identify acquisition and merger opportunities and direct implementation activities. 4. Evaluate performance of executives for compliance with established policies and objectives of the company and contributions in attaining objectives. 5. Promote the company to local, regional, national, and international constituencies.
Joined Continental in 2012 with a focus on supplier development, specializing in rubber raw material production processes, applications, and market intelligence. Possess over 10 years of in-depth experience, particularly in the fillers segment.
From 2021 to 2022, served as Global Manager – Supply Chain Due Diligence at Continental’s headquarters in Hannover, Germany, where I led initiatives in sustainability risk assessment and mitigation across the global supply chain.Well-versed in regulatory compliance, including the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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.
