About Us

 

Sinobarite, established in 2008, is a mineral oriented company.Our key business activities are the mining and processing of nonmetal minerals especially the barite, which is widely used as drilling mud in oil and gas well, filler in painting and coating, plastic, rubber, ceramic, ink, paper making, chemical fiber, medicine and cosmetic industry and so on.

The company is always running as “Quality First, Innovation for Developing, Supplying Excellent Quality Products, Lower Customer’s Purchasing Costs, Win-win Cooperation by parties”.
Products
We professionally manufacture the micronized barite series based on self-owned barite mines resource, which ensures totally control the quality from raw ore to powder. Products including:
>>API Barite Crude Ore and Powder
>>Chemical Barite Lump and Powder
>>Paint Grade Barite Lump and Powder
Mining
The company sources the key raw materials from a number of mines located mainly in Guizhou but also from neighboring province such as Guangxi, Yunnan. For instance, for barite supply the company draws material from up to 5 different mines, depending on grade and volumes required. The buying power allows Sinobarite to exert considerable influence on non company owned mines to conform to strict guidelines as to quality and reliability of output.
Processing Plant
The key processing complex is located in Daping town, Duyun city, about 100km from the provincial capital of Guiyang. This plant area is located on 50,000 m2 of land and incorporates.
>> raw material storage
>> crude washing, screening & sorting
>> crushing
>> milling and classification
>> package & finished goods storage
>> quality management laboratories
This plant predominantly handles what are defined as soft minerals and utilizes Remond mills to process the minerals to a range of milled products. In addition to the Remond mills the especially designed classifying circuits provide a range of particle size options, as fine as average 5 microns.
The products are packaged in quality packaging including; polywoven bags, jumbo bags and kraft paper. When requested wooden pallets can be supplied.
Quality Management
From the onset a key business driver has been tight and thorough quality management, predominantly in the company’s own laboratory. From time to time external laboratories are used to conduct specialized testing. The focus being to provide consistent quality products to a diverse range of clients.
The Quality Assurance (QA) process while not as yet certified to ISO is comprehensive and includes specified sampling procedures, testing to various international standards, recording of results related to production output and retaining samples for extended periods. This provides trace-ability in the QA system with all goods shipped.
Logistics
The company arranges many shipments in containers via Fangcheng Port and also in place are systems to load ocean going vessels with break-bulk cargoes or loose bulk ore.
Marketing & Sales
Sinobarite has an extensive network of often exclusive agents & distributors to service many of the markets areas of the world. In some cases business is conducted directly with large consumers. Exports are a key business focus, approx 90% of output. Markets served not only include the Asia Pacific region but also include markets as far away as Europe, Africa & the Middle East.
Annual sales are approximately USD30 million for Sinobarite alone.
Management
The head office & marketing teams are located in central Guiyang where there is ready access to shipping documents and the banking system.
Accounting and financial control are also managed at the Guiyang head office. The registered capital is RMB10 million.
Total employees is currently at 100 persons, approximately 20 at the administration office in Guiyang, the balance are based at the plants.