Andrew Tan

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About Andrew Tan

Consultancy experiences- Provided clients with top ten commercial anode companies for process routes, engineering solutions, OEMs, CAPEX & OPEX, Gross margins & products compatibility in the market - Prepared SG, Coated SG, purified CSG at commercial OEMs & Anode companies for graphite clients -Scope study, Review of pilot purification furnace design-Feasibility studies for different thermal (halogen) NG purification, purified Canadian NG to LiB purity in an industrial furnace- Introduced several of the current top ten anode companies to clients for JV cooperation and suppliers quantification-Proposal for Alkali acid, HF purification of Canadian graphite and analyzing the disadvantages of these methods-Summery of recently Graphene R&D progress & feasibility of commercial break through-Design for advanced manufacturing plant of Australia graphite mine-Lab test salting, exfoliation-Provided industrial productions process routes, applications and market review of expandable & expanded graphite materials Management skills:Managed two JVs company as China Operations Manager, General manager.Coaching and people development for management staffs in sales, engineering, HR and production.Key decisions making for sales, purchase, tax, company evaluation, as well as Chinese government relations in Labor, environmental, custom, bank and foreign currency control etc. Broad experience in Carbon/Graphite materials, with Global business experiencesExpandable graphite:A global leading carbon companyLeading a 20+ team members achieved two consecutive years profitable, established historical revenue & profit at company history. Responsible for P/L, CI, ESHA, Sales/Purchase Graphitic/Graphitized Cathode:An Global American private companyLeading a 30+ team members turn a monthly loss company to profitable, interfaced with global Aluminum smelters, responsible for P/L, CI, Suppliers' management.LiB Anode:Strong ties with 5 of the top ten anode makersExperiences with anode plants' OEMs, Engineering designing companies, and Process developers of the mainstream anode makersUnderstanding anode plants' CAPEX & OPEX, anode products & process design, electrochemical mechanism, supply chain of cell makers with anode makers Graphite electrode & Graphite Specialty:A Chinese top 3 carbon companyLeading a 7+ R&D team members performed HTGR graphite prototype, successfully developed NG purification process, scaled up ISO products from pilot to mass production.