Advanced Materials

Our advanced materials segment aims to ensure supply chain stability and to build competitive advantages through the development of complete vertical industrial value chains jointly with the businesses of the advanced intelligent manufacturing segment.

Specialty New Materials

CITIC Pacific Special Steel is a global leader that specialises in the manufacture of specialty steel, with an annual production capacity of approximately 20 million tonnes. The company’s six major products are widely used in automotive components, energy, machinery manufacturing, oil and petrochemicals, transportation, shipbuilding and other industrial sectors. The company has five specialised production bases for premium special steel materials, two raw material processing facilities and two professional mills, forming a strategic network along the Yangtze River and Yellow Sea.

Nanjing Steel is an industry-leading, highly efficient and fully integrated steel complex with an annual production capacity of over 10 million tonnes. The company is a global leader in the production of medium and heavy steel plates and a competitive producer of long steel products in China. Focusing on the opportunities presented by the upgrade of Chinese manufacturing and import substitution, Nanjing Steel primarily produces specialised plates and long steel products. The company emphasises research and development to promote steel materials that exhibit high strength, high toughness, high fatigue resistance, high wear resistance, corrosion resistance and excellent weldability. These materials are widely used in various industries, including oil and gas equipment, renewable energy, shipbuilding and marine engineering, automotive bearings and springs, construction machinery and rail transport, as well as high-rise bridge structures. Nanjing Steel provides solutions for key national projects and the upgrading of high-end manufacturing industries.

Specialty Raw Materials

CITIC Metal is primarily engaged in bulk commodity trading and mining investments. Trading and resource investment are the two key pillars of the company’s development strategy, driving its ambition of becoming a top-tier trader and investor in the field. CITIC Metal specialises in trading a wide range of products, including non-ferrous metals such as niobium, copper and aluminium, as well as ferrous metals including iron ore and steel. The company’s investment portfolio includes Brazilian niobium mining company Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração (CBMM), copper, zinc and platinum mining company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd (IVN.TO), Las Bambas Copper Mine in Peru, Western Superconducting Technologies (688122.SH), China Platinum Company and others.

CITIC Resources is primarily engaged in the exploration, development and production of oil. The company also invests in coal mining, the import and export of commodities, electrolytic aluminium, bauxite mining and alumina smelting. With investment and trading as the dual driving forces for business development, the company operates in multiple nations including China, Australia, the Republic of Kazakhstan and Indonesia, running three upstream oil and gas operations and related trading businesses.

CITIC Pacific Energy invests in, operates and manages multiple power plants in China with supporting businesses that extend across the industrial supply chain, from coal mining and shipping, to power sales and heat supply. The company also actively invests in green energy businesses, including solar and wind power generation.

Sino Iron, developed and operated by CITIC Pacific Mining – a subsidiary of CITIC Mining International (CMI), is Australia’s largest magnetite concentrate producer and a major supplier of ironmaking feedstock to Chinese and other Asian steel mills.