With a global spotlight on critical raw materials, now is the time for an open and honest conversation.
The industry is facing more questions than ever before. As electrification and decarbonisation charge ahead, what role will Europe play in shaping this transition? How will global trade tensions impact supply security? What does the future of Europe’s supply chain really look like?
In a shifting market, opportunities are emerging. Growth in energy storage, rising EV adoption, and advancements in battery technology are reshaping the landscape. This event unites over 450+ key players from across the supply chain—miners, refiners, battery manufacturers, OEMs, and energy storage leaders—will come together to address investment challenges, regulatory hurdles, supply and demand trends, and explore the strategic partnerships shaping Europe’s role in the global transition.
What to expect:
Data-driven insights for actionable strategies
Gain insights into the global market trends from Fastmarkets experts
Focus on recycling
Explore innovative recycling technologies and future materials forecasts.
Forge partnerships
Meet the leaders that move the battery raw materials supply chain.
Silver Sponsors
Aquatech is a recognized global leader in end-to-end process solutions to produce technical and battery grades of lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, and lithium salts. Leveraging its experience and know-how, Aquatech offers holistic solutions to produce critical mineral-based chemicals and salts for EV batteries and from battery recycling, providing applied development and testing with demonstration-scale process units to engineering and design, project management and execution, through post-installation operations and maintenance. Aquatech has delivered over 2,000 facilities across 60 countries and helps the world’s most recognized companies reduce their water, carbon, and environmental footprint, helping them achieve and sustain their sustainability goals. Learn more at www.aquatech.com.
KBR delivers science, technology, and engineering solutions to governments and companies worldwide.
As the world strives to decarbonize, a vast majority of this effort will rely on electrification. Within our Critical Minerals business, we leverage our process knowledge and expertise to provide solutions for energy security.
From smartphones to solar panels, electric vehicles, and even space shuttles, we offer technologies for essential battery materials—minerals and metals—necessary for renewable energy, clean technology, and the transition to a more sustainable, low-carbon future.
Our technologies include PureLiSM, a unique lithium conversion and refining process to cater to the growing lithium-ion battery demand for electric vehicles and energy storage systems. MetExSM is our extraction and purification technology that recovers battery metal salts from various feedstocks, including ore concentrates, spent electrolytes, and e-waste. We have several other technologies in our portfolio of Sustainable Technology Solutions to help the world grow and decarbonize.
KBR is committed not only to meeting the demands of the battery industry but also to mitigating environmental impact by fostering a circular economy for crucial resources.
SCT, an international engineering design and equipment supplier, operates from offices in China, Australia, South Korea, Indonesia, and Germany. The company specializes in the conversion and purification of lithium-containing hard rocks and lithium salts, having designed over 60 production trains worldwide. SCT boasts a team of over 260 engineers and experts across various design disciplines, including process, mechanical, EIC, civil, 3D modeling, cost estimation, and more.
With over 30 years of experience in executing international projects, SCT possesses in-depth knowledge of standards, regulations, and norms across different countries and regions. Our ability to offer comprehensive turn-key solutions, encompassing Pyromet and Hydromet process units, sets us apart and gives us a significant competitive edge, establishing us as a trusted leader in the engineering industry.
Having successfully completed more than 60 production trains globally, SCT ranks first in lithium salts design capacity, holding over 85% of the global spodumene refinery facilities market share. This track record has enabled us to cultivate strong partnerships with renowned lithium refinery operators worldwide. Presently, we can deliver turnkey solutions for lithium salts refinery facilities ranging from 5,000 to 60,000 tons per year (single train capacity).
Our main business scope includes the following services:
Testwork, encompassing Laboratory, Pilot, and Demo Plants
Scoping, Pre-feasibility, and Definitive Feasibility Studies
Full Design Discipline of FEED and Detailed Design
Equipment services, covering Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Supervision
Engineering Project Consulting
Plant Commissioning and Production Management
Plant Troubleshooting, Technical Innovation, and Revamp
Sunrise SNE, a high-tech enterprise with core competency of high and low rotary kiln, engineering design, general contracting, the company specializes in the areas as-below:
① R & D, Engineering design
② Manufacturing, tech consulting
③ Project management
④ General contracting(EPC/EP/EPCM)
At same time, Sunrise also provides professional services for the new energy, non-ferrous metallurgy, environmental protection and solid waste treatment industries at home and abroad.
Achievements:
1.Completed about one hundred production lines in chemical industry. The clients including: Ganfeng lithium, Chengxin lithium,Yahua, Yongshan lithium and Zijin Mining, etc.
2.Successfully finished more than 40 projects in lithium treatment area(including: engineering design, EP/EPCM projects and completed equipment)
3.Save the CAPEX and OPEX more than 30% and reduce about 30% of delivery time
4.Green and sustainable process and technology with full intellectual property right
Core Competitiveness:
Top supplier in lithium salt industry, provide one-stop solution, including: consultancy, feasibility study, engineering design, R&D, manufacturing & procurement, project management, installation & maintenance, operation & commissioning
Wholly owned design institute which equipped with disciplines, cover process, electrical, automation, instrument, industrial design, equipment & material, building and structure, water supply and sewerage, heating and ventilation, general plot plan, budgetary estimation
Powerful supply chain capability: Wholly owned large-scale manufacturing plant and also established strategic partnership with large-scale vendors and mature suppliers
Strong project delivery team: with more than 100 engineer and 1800 workers, who have rich project delivery experience
Partnering Associations
BATT4EU is a Co-programmed Partnership established under Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of the European Union- that aims to achieve a competitive and sustainable European industrial value-chain for e-mobility and stationary applications.
It is a contractual public-private Partnership gathering – on the public side – the European Commission; and – on the private side – BEPA, which regroups all the battery stakeholders from the European Research community.
The CMA (UK) was founded in 2020 by Jeff Townsend and Kirsty Benham, both of whom saw that UK’s Industrial Strategy and Net Zero Strategy do not consider the monopolisation of today’s critical minerals supply chains, and cannot be achieved without a resilient and responsible supply of critical minerals.
The Association unites the whole value chain to push UK Government to address risks in critical mineral supply chains. Our membership is diverse, including organisations from small exploration firms to some of the largest mining companies globally, as well as ESG consultancies, law firms, private equity, tech start-ups, research institutions and universities.
The International Manganese Institute (IMnI) is the global trade association of the manganese industry and is representing the whole manganese value-chain: IMnI Members include more than 120 manganese producers, users, traders, and recyclers based in 30+ countries.
Founded in 1975 as at not-for-profit association, and headquartered in Paris, France, IMnI’s mission is to provide vision and guidance to the Manganese industry by promoting economic, social and environmental responsibility and sustainability to all stakeholders. With a staff of 6 experts based in Europe, India and China, the IMnI is the best source of market research and sustainability information on Manganese.
Manganese is a metal used to make steel, and to a lesser extent fertilisers for the agriculture industry and batteries for the electric car industry. Manganese is considered a critical and strategic raw material in many countries, including the USA and the European Union.
The Minor Metals Trade Association (MMTA) is a not-for-profit organisation, which serves to benefit and promote the interests of its international Membership, comprising companies actively involved in all aspects of the international minor metals sector. If your company has a commercial interest in these metals and would like to know more about the work of the MMTA, or if you simply wish to discover more about this intriguing group of metals, this site will provide answers to many of your questions.
The MMTA is the world’s largest association involved with minor metals. From just 19 founding Members, the MMTA is now comprised of companies from across the globe, engaged in all aspects of minor metals activity, the Association having long since broadened from its original Member base of trading companies.
RECHARGE is the European industry association for advanced rechargeable and lithium batteries.
Founded in 1998, it is our mission to promote advanced rechargeable batteries as a key technology that will contribute to a more empowered, sustainable and circular economy by enabling decarbonised electricity and mobility, and cutting-edge consumer products.
RECHARGE’s unique membership covers all aspects of the advanced rechargeable battery value chain: From suppliers of primary and secondary raw materials, to battery and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), to logistic partners and battery recyclers.
www.rechargebatteries.org
