Dr Wang Yancheng joins SMM’s new London Office as Managing Director

Shanghai Metals Market has established a new overseas office in London in May 2021, the second overseas establishment after Singapore office on September 1, 2017. In order to provide international customers with more professional and high level services as a leading research institution and portal website for non-ferrous metals in China, SMM has appointed Dr Wang Yancheng, a well-known analyst in the global aluminium industry, as a managing director in the London office.

Before joining SMM, Dr Wang Yancheng was the principal analyst at CRU and the head of Chinese aluminium market research. He worked at CRU for 15 years.

Dr Wang’s areas of expertise include aluminium, alumina, bauxite, downstream, recycling, and power/energy market analysis, cost modelling, and value assessment of aluminium assets. Specific projects that he was involved in covering the whole value chain of the aluminium industry included bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting, and downstream. In recent years, he has extended his research in the other base metal markets, macroeconomic and relative industries, like thermal coal, gas, power, and carbon emission markets.

Dr. Wang has visited more than 100 bauxite mines, alumina refineries, aluminium smelters, downstream and recycling assets in China, Russia, Australia, Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Middle East and North America. He also often attends technical and market conferences and gives presentations as a key-note speaker.