Founded in 1984, Lizhong Group is a global enterprise specialising in recycled aluminium alloys and lightweight automotive products. The company operates through three major enterprise groups, recycled aluminium alloy, aluminium alloy wheel and functional master alloy new materials.
In an interview for ALuminium China 2025 & Beyond e-Magazine, Lizhong Group shared its vision for the future of sustainable aluminium. The discussion highlighted the company’s strategic focus on advancing low-carbon and high-performance aluminium materials, supporting China’s dual carbon goals and promoting intelligent manufacturing. They also emphasised the importance of industry collaboration, green supply chains, and the expansion of overseas markets to enhance global competitiveness.
AL Circle: What differentiates STNM from other manufacturers in China and globally?
Juliet Yan: The advantages are:
1. We have a united and efficient board of directors and management team.
2. International R&D, manufacturing in China, and global sales
3. We have the advantage of the aluminium industry chain: master alloy---foundry alloy—aluminium alloy wheel—Manufacturing of melting equipment.
AL Circle: Do you have any initiatives in place to support China’s carbon neutrality goals or circular economy principles?
Juliet Yan: The founder of Lizhong Sitong said that a company that does not actively undertake social responsibility will not become a century old enterprise.
As a leader in China’s premium aluminium new materials and automotive components, Lizhong Sitong has always taken national strategy as the guiding principle, global vision as the rudder, integrated sustainable development into the company’s genes, anchored the “dual carbon” goal, actively responded to the State Council’s “Action Plan for Carbon Peak before 2030”, and promoted the transformation of aluminium materials towards “green circulation”. The Main measures are:
1. Build a carbon management system for the company based on ISO14064 and ISO14067 standards, launch a carbon management platform, and achieve precise accounting and business empowerment for organizational carbon inventory, product carbon footprint, carbon emission analysis and statistics, carbon asset management, etc.
2. STNM dynamically manages the carbon generated in daily activities, continuously reducing carbon emissions through improvements and innovations in processes, technology, equipment, energy, and other aspects.
3.STNM takes market and customer demand as the starting point, develops recycled material technology and clean production processes, innovates products to meet customers’ demand for low-carbon products, and uses internationally leading optifine grain refiners and fluxes to reduce fluoride emissions by 30000 tons annually for the global aluminium processing industry.
4. Actively adopting clean energy, factory photovoltaic power generation and green power application, reducing carbon emissions by 14000 tons annually.
5.Proactively using 6000 tons of green aluminium can reduce carbon emissions by 110,000 tons annually
AL Circle: Are there any new technologies, product lines, or capabilities STNM plans to unveil at Aluminium China 2025?
Juliet Yan: At this exhibition, in addition to the industry breakthrough innovative solutions or flagship products such as grain refiners for battery aluminium foil, optifine grain refiners, aerospace grade AlTi, A1Zr master alloys, high-efficiency AlSr10 and AlSr15 modifiers, and high-efficiency AlB8 master alloys, STNM will also showcase our new products such as high-purity Al-Ti-C grain refiners, high-performance aluminium based rare earth master alloys, and high-efficiency low residue refining fluxes.
The newly developed high purity Al-Ti-C grain refiners have achieved successful application in 7XXX series ultra-high strength, toughness, and fatigue resistant aluminium alloys due to its fine TiC particles, more uniform distribution, and more efficient and stable refining ability.
A new product of aluminium scandium rare earth master alloy for aerospace aluminium alloy materials, with excellent quality such as low impurities and high uniformity, has been successfully applied in the mass production of aerospace aluminium alloy materials.
A new product with high efficiency and low residue refining fluxes, environmentally friendly and residue free flux. It has a small reaction gas volume, high purification efficiency, minimal side effects, and is environmentally friendly. It is more suitable for use in premium aluminium processing and precision casting industries.
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