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  Western Metal Materials Co., Ltd.(WMM) is sponsored by Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research Group (NIN) with other five shareholders: Zhejiang Venture Capital Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Venture Capital Co., Ltd., Zhuzhou Cemented Carbide Group, China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Technical Development and Exchange Center, Jiujiang Tnabre's Smetery. On Dec. 28 2000, it is registered in Xi'an High-Tech Development Zone with registered capital of 6,842 million RMB. It is confirmed as High-Tech enterprise by Shaanxi Province Committee of Science and Technology and received authentication of CSQA ISO 9002 Quality System with AA degree in 2001. The fixed assets are 4,845 million RMB and total assets of the company are 130 million RMB. WMM has seven branches, eight departments, one R&D centre and one testing centre. Mainly engaged in the R & D, manufacture and sales of sheet, strip, foil, wire, bar and tube for rare metal materials as well as their deep-processing products, clad materials and its equipment, rare and precious metal, etc.. It has seven series of products, such as refractory metal materials, pressure vessels, explosive clad materials, precious metal products, pipe fittings, fine chemical products and metal fibre products. These are widely used in many areas such as astronautics, metallurgy, petroleum, chemical industry, chemical fibre, electronics and energy. All of these products have been exported to America, Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, Australia and etc. The objective of this company is to increase production, to improve competing advantage and to avoid the risks of shareholders by issuing stocks according to advanced technology, experts and specialized facilities of NIN and National Engineering Research Center for Rare Metal Materials Processing.