PbZn 2020: The 9th International Symposium on Lead and Zinc Processing: Lead and Zinc Current Challenges and Opportunities: Plenary Session
Sponsored by: The Mining and Materails Processing Institute of Japan, Nonferrous Metals Society of China, GDMB: The Society for Mining, Metallurgy Resourcce and Environmental Technology, Metallurgy & Materials Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum, TMS Extraction and Processing Division, TMS: Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee, TMS: Process Technology and Modeling Committee, TMS: Pyrometallurgy Committee, TMS: Recycling and Environmental Technologies Committee
Program Organizers: Andreas Siegmund, LanMetCon LLC; Shafiq Alam, University of Saskatchewan; Joseph Grogan, Gopher Resource; Ulrich Kerney, Recylex; Cheng Liu, China Enfi Engineering Corporation; Etsuro Shibata, Tohoku University

Tuesday 8:30 AM
February 25, 2020
Room: 15A
Location: San Diego Convention Ctr

Session Chair: Cameron Harris, Canadian Engineering Associates


8:30 AM  Plenary
Our Common Future in Metallurgy: Maurits Van Camp1; Elien Haccuria1; Tom Hennebel1; Christina Meskers1; 1Umicore
     The world is fast transitioning to a sustainable way of living and working to overcome the current societal challenges. This common future is articulated by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. SDGs will pull the metallurgical industry forward, making it an integral participant in the common future. Lead-zinc primary extraction continues to be a key source of technology metals and lead-zinc metallurgy is enabling the circular economy of a wide range of metals and products. Both mining and metallurgy are essential in realizing the SDGs, although challenges lie ahead. First, the license to operate mines and plants and the license to sell products is provided by society at large. Society will only do so if it considers the lead-zinc industry part of the common future. Second, an industry-wide transition to the innovation economy implies a shared vision on education, research, technology and innovation that includes Industry 4.0 concepts, methods and tools.

9:00 AM  Plenary
Material Stewardship for Zinc: Sabina Grund1; Eric Van Genderen1; 1International Zinc Association (IZA)
    The metals industry is faced with global challenges, among these finding a balance between environmental stewardship, economic development, and social responsibility, that require full participation by the entire metals value chain. The global zinc industry has a well-established, long-term sustainability program in place providing its customers, regulators, and other stakeholder groups with facts. For example, regular updates of the global zinc mining and smelting Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provide practioners with the most representative environmental footprint data for zinc. Furthermore, IZA conducts material stocks and flows analyses to characterize national, regional, and global recycling metrics. IZA’s sustainability activities are framed by the SDG Sector Roadmap for the global zinc value chain. It outlines the focus of the global zinc industry’s projects linked to Sustainable Development. The presentation provides an overview of the global zinc industries’ achievements, goals and actions related and identifies challenges that still lie ahead of this industry.

9:30 AM  Plenary
Lead and Zinc Smelting Technology in China under Green Development: Liu Cheng1; 1China ENFI Engineering Corporation
    

10:00 AM Question and Answer Period

10:30 AM Break