Industrial Minerals


Wuxi Ding Long Co. Ltd

April 2011

by Alex Feytis

China’s Wuxi Ding Long supplies abrasive, refractory and foundry minerals from China. Raymond Ding, managing director, talked to IM about the increase of Chinese minerals’ prices and the growing potential of recyclable products


Raymond Ding, managing director

Wuxi Ding Long Co. Ltd, established since the early 2000s, exports various industrial minerals and mineral packaging products from China through its industrial mineral products division Sinogarnet.

The trading company is specialised in abrasive, refractory and foundry minerals such as garnet, sillimanite, ceramic foundry sand, ceramic proppants, chromites, mica, bentonite, manganese ore, zircon sand, and high purity quartz.

Wuxi sources its minerals from inland China - Inner Mongolia, Henan, Hebei and Jiangsu area - in addition to importing from India, the USA and the Middle East.

The company exports its Chinese minerals overseas to North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and the Middle East.

For imported minerals, Wuxi covers the whole Chinese domestic market with over 300 active customers across China. The company has also established four strategic logistics facilities along the China east costal area from North to South: DaLian, Shanghai/Wuxi, Ningbo...