As more and more new aluminum smelters invested by Chinese companies are being built in South-east Asia, especially in Indonesia, our new offices in Indonesia and Singapore were set up to closely and well serve our customers. In the mean time, we also developed spent anode business with an cooperator. This is a very big and also very necessary step for the development of our company.
We developed more businesses including air dome building, aluminum purification fluxes, LM Cell Switch, LM crucible cleaner, as well as crucibles and related products. And at the same time, we started our export business, we are going to introduce these newly developed products to users in the other countries.
We started cooperation with Haixi Tsingda-Jiuhong New Inorganic Materials Co., Ltd as their key distributor to sell high grade aluminum refining fluxes to aluminum casthouse in China. This business enriched our experience in aluminum casting and foundry industry.
We became a distributor of Momentive Performance Materials Inc., selling their Boron Nitride (BN) Coatings to aluminum casthouses in China.
We started working for AIS project. The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI) is a global, multi-stakeholder, non-profit standards setting and certification organization. It is the result of producers, users and stakeholders in the aluminum value chain coming together with a commitment to maximizing the contribution of aluminum to a sustainable society. By the end of 2020, we have developed more than 20 members (aluminum smelters and fabricators) in China.
We became an agent of Hencon, a special vehicles manufacturer in Netherland. The vehicles are used in potrooms and casthouses to improve working condition, efficiency and reduce cost. So far, more than 20 vehicles have been sold to more than 10 customers in China.
We became the agent of Hencon B.V. in charge of Chinese market, and we won our first order of two FTVs (Furnace Tending Vehicle) from Xinfa Aluminum in Shandong province. Hencon B.V. is a global famous special vehicle manufacturer in Netherlands, providing all kinds of solutions for aluminum Industry.
We started importing bath material from aluminum smelters outside China by ourselves after Alcan Trading closed its office. And by this year, we imported more than 100kt of pure bath to more than 20 customers in China.
Beijing office started in early 2011. Our key business was pure bath material. We imported bath material from Alcan Trading in Switzerland and sold to new aluminum smelters in China.