Statistics Committee
Overview:
- Identifies and determines best report formats,
- Decides on future market research studies performed by the IMnI,
- Standardizes units of measure for reporting metrics,
- Ensures statistical information reported by IMnI is aggregated to protect members confidentiality (no member to member statistics dialogue)
Statistics Committee Policy & Procedure Guidelines
The three over-riding policy principles governing IMnI’s Statistics are vertical information flow, anonymity and aggregation (by the rule of 3), this last to be implemented when applicable.
All statistical data submitted by members to the IMnI remains confidential in the hands of the IMnI staff, and under no circumstances shall be passed on to any third party, including other IMnI members. Nor shall such data be published or distributed by the IMnI in any form which could identify the origin or originator of the data, with the exception of the Market Research Report, which only shows country-by-country data with a time-lag of 6 months for countries with less than 3 producers.
No written or oral commentary shall be provided by the IMnI staff on any such submitted data to any third party, including IMnI members. No data shall be reviewed or commented on by any IMnI Committee or Committee member unless such data has first been aggregated and rendered anonymous in accordance with these Policy guidelines.
The IMnI staff shall refuse to answer any questions or enquiries from members regarding data submitted by any member other than to respond to questions asked by a specific member regarding that member’s own submitted data return and only with a view to rectifying errors or correcting omissions in respect thereof.
All data submitted by members shall be held in electronic form only accessible by the IMnI secretariat. No copies of this information, in any form whatsoever, shall be passed on to any third party, including members of IMnI, by the IMnI staff.
IMnI’s Monthly Market Research Report on Mn Ore (wet and Mn content) & Alloys shall include monthly and yearly figures by country and region for production, consumption (real and apparent), capacities, and inventories:
- Trade Data (publicly available country information – no aggregation)
- Real Consumption
- Apparent Consumption
- Capacity and Capacity Utilization
- Production and Supply-Demand Balance
- Unit consumption
Ordinary members shall provide the IMnI with their production and inventory figures, directly on the IMnI extranet on a monthly basis. No member shall provide, nor be requested to provide, this information to any other member or indeed to any other party.
Production, Inventory and Capacity Analysis
The IMnI staff will research available industry publications and other sources to verify production and capacity figures. Other international organizations and government agencies also contribute to the service, notably the Indian Bureau of Mines: these same guidelines and resultant protocols shall be applied in respect of the participation to those organizations and agencies accordingly.
Consumption Analysis
The IMnI Staff will analyse publicly available trade data and public steel production data to calculate apparent and real consumption for every country covered by the IMnI Market Research Report.
Trade Data Analysis
Publicly available trade data will be examined and placed into a matrix report format. Since this information is publicly available and does not come from members, no aggregation is necessary.
In order to aggregate and render anonymous submitted data in accordance with an aggregation rule of 3, the Monthly Report shall show production statistics with a time-lag of 1 month for regions with more than 3 active producing companies, 3 months for countries with more than 3 producers, and 6-month for regions and countries with less than 3 producers.
Committee Chairman
Guillermo Recio is currently in charge of the Marketing Department at Autlán, where his responsibilities include market research. A Mexican, he joined the company in 2011 after earning a Master’s Degree in Social Science and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies at the University of Monterrey.
He has been serving as a Vice-Chairman of the Statistics Committee at the Mexican Iron and Steel Industry Chamber since 2013.
Committee Members
Gautam Kumar
Juan Bosco Alvarez
Gabriel Schaub
Paul Jonker
Thembelani Gantsho
Keneilwe Lerumo
Luis Pessoa
Martin Levcik
Chan Zelin
Marco Levi
CEO
Marco Levi was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company on January 13, 2020 and to our Board of Directors on January 15, 2020.
Dr Levi previously served as President and CEO of Alhstrom-Munksjö Oyj, a global fiber materials company listed in Finland, where he led a successful transformation of the business by refocusing its product portfolio towards value-added specialty products. Prior to that, Dr. Levi was Senior Vice President and Business President of the $3 billion emulsion polymers division of chemicals manufacturer Styron, including during the period in which Styron was acquired by Bain Capital from Dow Chemical Company. Dr. Levi previously had spent over twenty-two years at Dow in various departments and roles, ultimately serving as general manager of the emulsion polymers business.
Dr Levi is also a Non-Executive Director of Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc, the leading global performance materials company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Dr Levi holds a doctorate in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Milan, Statale, Italy.
Augenija Di Bucci
Commercial Director, Mn Ore and Alloys
Augenija has extensive experience in Commodities Sales and Marketing. Prior to joining Omni, Augenija has worked for more than 16 years at global mining group BHP, managing sales and sustainable long term supply of natural resources in EMEA, CIS, Americas regions, identifying and implementing synergetic opportunities, building and fortifying business relationships across range of commodities.
OMNI IS REPRESENTED IN THESE COMMITTEES
Statistics Committee
Adrian Low
IMnI Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of OM Materials Singapore
Adrian Low has worked at OM Holdings, a vertically integrated manganese ore and ferroalloys company, for over 10 years and currently serves as the Managing Director of OM Materials Singapore, the group marketing and procurement arm.
Throughout his tenure, Adrian has held various positions and currently assumes responsitility for general sales and procurement, market research, and business development, with a secondary function in corporate strategy and relations.
Adrian holds a Master's in Finance from Princeton University and a bachelor's in Mathematics from the University of Chicago
Sui Ling Phang
Aloys d'Harambure
Executive Director
Aloys d’Harambure joined the IMnI in December 2014. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, with a Master’s of Science in Administration from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal’s prestigious business school. Prior to joining the IMnI, he was the Business Analyst at the International Chromium Development Association.