At the 19th Global Gypsum Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 24, Beijing New Building Materials Public Limited Company (BNBM) was awarded the only Outstanding Contribution to the Global Gypsum Industry after voting by the global gypsum industry and experts from the Global Gypsum association. Dr. Robert McCaffrey, Director of Global Gypsum, presented the award to Wang Bing, Board Chairman of BNBM. The last time this award was presented at the Global Gypsum Conference was in 2013, and the winner was also BNBM. BNBM is the first company outside of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States in the past 100 years to deploy the gypsum board industry on a global scale, breaking the domination of the world's top 500 companies in Europe and the United States.