the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center (T.I.C.): 63rd General Assembly

GA67 · Post-Event Resources

Looking Back at GA67

The T.I.C. 67th General Assembly and Conference brought together the international tantalum and niobium community in Yinchuan, China, from 13–16 September 2026 for technical exchange, market perspectives and professional networking.

The published technical programme covered a wide range of topics, from the growing role of tantalum in AI infrastructure and advanced semiconductors to critical raw materials, responsible sourcing, recycling and emerging manufacturing technologies.

Exploring the Technical Programme

Among the materials being made available is a presentation by Dr Melanie Stenzel of TANIOBIS, exploring tantalum in next-generation AI power delivery, including energy efficiency, evolving power architectures and advances in high-voltage tantalum powders.

Explore the resources below to revisit GA67. Conference photographs are publicly accessible, while presentation documents are available to T.I.C. members. Further conference highlights and insights will be added when available.

Presentations

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Photographs

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Highlights & Insights

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Presentation materials are initially reserved for T.I.C. members. Under the existing archive arrangements, documents become publicly accessible after 12 months.

2022 AGM REPORT

The 2022 AGM took place on Monday October 17th as part of the 63rd General Assembly. The meeting was quorate and held in full compliance with the Association’s Antitrust Compliance Policy. 

During the AGM, motions were passed including approval of the Minutes of the 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in London on November 15th 2021, approval of the audited accounts for the year ended April 30th 2022 and the budget for the year May 1st 2022 – April 30th 2023.

Five companies were elected as new corporate members of the association (Advanced Alloy Services Ltd, Buss & Buss Spezialmetalle GmbH, Elite Material Solutions Ltd, Power Resources International Ltd and Strategic Minerals Spain). One company transferred corporate membership (from Roskill Information Services to Wood Mackenzie), six did not renew corporate membership, four saw their membership terminated by the Executive Committee for non-payment of dues and three saw their membership suspended.

The members voted the following ten people onto the Executive Committee for the forthcoming year: Mr Fabiano Costa, Ms Silvana Fehling, Mr Ronald Gilerman, Mr David Gussack, Mr Jiang Bin, Mr Janny Jiang, Mr Dharam Kotecha, Mr Raveentiran Krishnan, Ms Candida Owens and Dr Daniel Persico.

Of these ten, Dr Daniel Persico was re-elected as President of the T.I.C. for a further term.

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