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Place yourself at the epicentre of EV excellence and ESS innovation in the battery industry's heartland.
Fastmarkets is returning to Shanghai in 2025, assembling the key opinion leaders, government representatives and innovators impacting the future of China’s battery raw materials supply chain in 2025 and beyond.
This content-rich conference will bring domestic and international mining companies, refiners, battery producers, recyclers, OEMs, and EV and ESS manufacturers together to network, strengthen existing relationships, and forge new partnerships.
Join us for market-leading insights about the key trends, pricing outlooks, and forecasts shaping China’s domestic markets and international prospects
Industry leaders speaking at the event
Dr. George Q. Fang
Executive Vice Chairman
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co.
Dr. Fang, with a PhD degree in mineral engineering, is a professor-level senior engineer who holds the business license granted by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. Before joining Huayou in Jan, 2020, Dr. Fang had acted as the Director of Mineral Engineering Research Institute of BGRIMM, CTO and Managing Director of Business Development Dept. of China Minmetals Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd., Vice Chairman and Head of Mining and Metals Coverage, Investment Banking, Asia of Standard Bank Asia Limited, the Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Zijin Mining Group. Currently, Dr. Fang serves as Executive Vice Chairman of Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., Ltd. He is mainly in charge of international investment and financing, as well as legal affairs.
Elmer Liu
Chief Technology Officer
Mirattery
Elmer Liu is an experienced technology leader specializing in battery systems. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Mirattery Co., Ltd. Previously, he worked in Battery System Research & Development at Saic Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation, where he contributed to the advancement of electric vehicle battery technologies.
Honglin Ge
China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA)
Catherine Zhang
Vice President
LME Business Development
Catherine Zhang is a Vice President and responsible for LME Business Development based in Hong Kong SAR. Ms. Zhang has more than 17 years of financial experience in both Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR by starting her career at China Guangfa Bank in Beijing. Since joining HKEX Group in 2013, she has been performing multiple roles in commodity sector covering sales and marketing as well as derivatives products development. Currently she manages regional clients in Greater China for the LME, with a focus on financial and physical institutions who are active in non-ferrous and EV markets. Ms. Zhang holds M.Phil from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Leon Farrant
CEO & Co-Founder
Green Li-ion
Leon Farrant is the CEO and co-founder of Green Li-ion, a battery recycling and remanufacturing technology provider at the forefront of the industry. With over 20 years of strategic leadership in the energy and service sectors, creating and scaling businesses across diverse regions, Leon is known for his consensus-building prowess, vision, and rigor for global business. He drives Green Li-ion's mission to make battery recycling commercially viable with scalable, on-site solutions. Leon's expertise in innovation and technology application and his active involvement in assessing the financial feasibility of recycling lithium battery circularity, propel Green Li-ion’s efforts to efficiently close the loop on recycling critical battery materials around the globe.
Dawei Li
Chief Commercial Officer
Li-Cycle
Dr. Gangfeng Liu
VP Research & Development
Botree Recycling Technologies
Dr. Gangfeng Liu is an expert in waste power battery recycling and recycling, catalyst precious metal recovery, spodumene lithium extraction, solid waste treatment and resource recycling research, including metallurgical tailings treatment and comprehensive utilization, recovery of precious metals and rare earths, XRT and XRF sorting, and basic research on electrical crushing. He participated in research of new and efficient dry coal preparation technology with the Ministry of Science and Technology focused on large-scale direct liquefaction of coal. He has led large R&D teams focused on recycling precious metals, waste batteries, lithium slag, and preparation of high-quality lithium materials, with multi-million-dollar technology development funds. He has published multiple papers in international conferences and journals and won multiple provincial and municipal awards.
Febriany Eddy
Chief Executive Officer
PT Vale Indonesia
Meidy Katrin
Secretary General
Indonesian Nickel Miners Association (APNI)
Muchtazar , M.S.
Head of Sustainability
Nickel Industries Limited
Muchtazar is a seasoned sustainability professional and has worked for several industrial enterprises since 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and a Master of Environmental Science from the University of Indonesia. On top of that, he received an SDG Pioneer award in 2019 from the United Nations Global Compact, being just the second Indonesian in the award history to receive the accolade. Currently, he is working as the Head of Sustainability at Nickel Industries Limited, an Australian public company emerging as a globally significant, low-cost nickel producer.
Jerome Baudelet
Eramet Indonesia
Martim Facada
Managing Director, Lithium Trading
Traxys
Martim Facada is the Managing Director, Lithium Trading at TRAXYS heading Lithium for the group. Prior to TRAXYS, Martim worked as a Battery Raw Materials Broker at SCB facilitating the first-ever lithium futures trade done on an exchange. Before that, he headed the creation of Fastmarkets lithium prices.
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Silver Sponsor
Sigma Lithium (TSXV/NASDAQ: SGML, BVMF: S2GM34) is a leading global lithium producer dedicated to powering the next generation of electric vehicle batteries with carbon-neutral, socially and environmentally sustainable chemical-grade lithium concentrate. Sigma Lithium is one of the world’s largest lithium producers. The Company operates at the forefront of environmental and social sustainability in the electric vehicle battery materials supply chain at its Grota do Cirilo Operation in Brazil. Here, Sigma produces Quintuple Zero Green Lithium at its state-of-the-art Greentech lithium beneficiation plant, delivering net zero carbon lithium, produced with zero carbon intensive energy, zero potable water, zero toxic chemicals and zero tailings dams. Phase 1 of the Company’s operations entered commercial production in the second quarter of 2023. The Company has issued a Final Investment Decision, formally approving construction to double capacity to 520,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate through the addition of a Phase 2 expansion of its Greentech Plant.
Bronze Sponsor
Kopper Chemical Industry Corp., Ltd. is an internationally renowned customized technology service provider of specialty chemicals, focusing on the technological development and production of metal extractants, mineral flotation agents, acid mist suppressants, dispersants, wetting agents and other specialty surfactants; at present, our products are mainly used in SX-EW, new energy batteries, metal recycling, recycling of urban mineral resources, inks and coatings treatment and other fields.
Strategic Sponsor
Founded in 1873 and headquartered in London, Rio Tinto is a leading mining and metals company with about 57,000 employees operating in 35 countries. Our purpose is to find better ways to provide the materials the world needs. We produce materials essential to human progress, including iron ore, aluminium, copper, diamonds, borates, titanium, lithium and salt. With low-carbon transition at the heart of our business strategy, we are committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050 and partners to address emissions across our value chain. In 2024, Rio Tinto ranked 264 on Fortune Global 500.Rio Tinto established its first office in China in 1983 and set up Rio Tinto Trading (Shanghai) Co Ltd in 2008 as China headquarters. We have more than 200 people working from corporate offices and operations across Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou. We supply more than 250 million tonnes of high-quality iron ore and other mineral raw materials to China annually to support its urbanisation and low-carbon transition. We are also a strong supporter of China manufacturing with a total procurement exceeding $20 billion in China since 2005.
Exhibitor
CAS connects the world’s scientific knowledge to accelerate breakthroughs that improve lives. We empower global innovators to efficiently navigate today’s complex data landscape and make confident decisions in each phase of the innovation journey. As a specialist in scientific knowledge management, our team builds the largest authoritative collection of human-curated scientific data in the world and provides essential information solutions, services, and expertise. Scientists, patent professionals, and business leaders across industries rely on CAS to help them uncover opportunities, mitigate risks, and unlock shared knowledge so they can get from inspiration to innovation faster. CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society. Connect with us at cas.org.
Myande has been deeply involved in the battery raw materials industry, providing MVR evaporation crystallization and freezing crystallization equipment and solutions for lithium extraction from ores and salt lakes, power battery recycling, and lithium iron phosphate production. With over 20 years of engineering experience, Myande is committed to providing energy-efficient and stable systems to create value for customers and drive industry development.Myande focuses on supplying one-stop engineering service covering general layout plan, process design, R&D, equipment manufacturing, automatic control system, data integration, installation, supervision, commissioning, training and etc.
Nanonord A/S is a Danish, privately owned company with strong ties to the scientific community and university research. Renowned for its expertise in advanced analytical solutions, Nanonord develops innovative technologies that enable precise, real-time measurement of a wide range of critical elements, including lithium, boron, bromide, chloride, sodium, and more. These capabilities are essential at all stages of the lithium industry, from resource extraction and refining to end-product quality control.Built on a foundation of non-destructive, real-time analysis, Nanonord’s technologies address the growing need for data-driven decisions to optimize processes, enhance resource efficiency, and ensure material quality. By enabling comprehensive multi-element analysis, Nanonord empowers stakeholders to tackle challenges in the lithium value chain while supporting sustainable practices and advancing the global energy transition. Through its collaborations with academic and industrial partners, Nanonord continues to innovate and refine analytical methods to meet the evolving needs of the energy materials sector.
EV Partner
NIO was founded in November 2014. Drawing inspiration from the English phrase “A NEW DAY”, the brand name of NIO embodies the pursuit of shaping a sustainable and brighter future together.NIO is the first car company listed on the NYSE, HKSE and SGX, and currently has two major brands under its umbrella: NIO and ONVO. Nine years into establishment, NIO is one of the leading companies in the global premium smart electric vehicle market.Aiming to foster its own research and development capabilities for core technologies, NIO has developed NIO Full Stack, a collection of 12 technology domains. Currently, NIO has R&D centers and manufacturing facilities in Shanghai, Hefei, Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuhan, San Jose, Munich, Oxford, Berlin, Budapest, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Its sales and service networks have also been established in China, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark , UAE , Israel , Azerbaijan. NIO has eight smart electric models in its lineup, ONVO recently launched and delivered its first model L60
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