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
While geopolitics plays a crucial role in the entire industry, this event shed light not only on the expectations for upcoming months and years regarding policies and regulations but also to provide an unbiased perspective on battery chemistries, ESS market trends and opportunities, cutting-edge advancements in extraction, processing, and refining technologies for battery materials, and much more.
Industry leaders speaking at the event
Honglin Ge
President
China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA)
Honglin Ge
President
China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA)
Mr.Ge is the President of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA). He is also a Member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National Committee and Economic Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Hon. Paul C. Kabuswe
Minister
Zambian Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development
Hon. Paul C. Kabuswe
Minister
Zambian Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development
Weihua Liu
Chairman and General Manager
BYD New Materials Co.
Weihua Liu
Chairman and General Manager
BYD New Materials Co.
Febriany Eddy
Chief Executive Officer
PT Vale Indonesia
Febriany Eddy
Chief Executive Officer
PT Vale Indonesia
Febriany Eddy is a visionary leader who made history as the first woman to lead a major mining company in Indonesia, serving as President Director and CEO of PT Vale Indonesia since April 2021. With a strong background in finance, she has played a key role in transforming PT Vale’s mindset toward sustainability. Previously, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 2013 to 2018, she oversaw the company’s strategic financial management, ensuring operational efficiency and longterm business growth. Her experience also includes strategic roles in Vale Base Metals Asia Pacific & Africa, overseeing operations across six countries, and global expertise gained at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Indonesia and the Netherlands. As a speaker at global forums, Febriany actively advocates for gender equality and women’s empowerment in the mining industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Universitas Indonesia and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management as well as the National University of Singapore. Her leadership has been recognized internationally, including Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2022 by Forbes Asia and 100 Most Powerful Women Asia 2024 by Fortune. By leading multi-billion-dollar collaborative projects, she has strengthened PT Vale’s role in supporting energy transition and building a greener, more sustainable future for Indonesia.
Jerome Baudelet
Chief Executive Officer
Eramet Indonesia
Jerome Baudelet
Chief Executive Officer
Eramet Indonesia
Elmer Liu
Chief Technology Officer
Mirattery
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.
Cai Yong
Vice President
Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd.
Cai Yong
Vice President
Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology Co., Ltd.
Dr. George Q. Fang
Executive Vice Chairman
Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co.
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.
Meidy Katrin
Secretary General
Indonesian Nickel Miners Association (APNI)
Meidy Katrin
Secretary General
Indonesian Nickel Miners Association (APNI)
Leon Farrant
CEO & Co-Founder
Green Li-ion
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.
Dr. Alawi Swabury
Chief Executive Officer
Africa Battery Initiative
Dr. Alawi Swabury
Chief Executive Officer
Africa Battery Initiative
Dr. Alawi Swabusy is the founder and CEO of Africa Battery Initiative (ABI), which works with 6000 critical minerals concession owners and mining companies in Burundi, the DRC, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The ABI is aiming at ensuring that all Critical Minerals are added value in Africa before being exported to the rest of the world, as well as at attracting investment to the whole EV-Battery Value Supply Chain in Africa. Dr. Swabury has a medical degree from the Hannover Medical School.
Dawei Li
Chief Commercial Officer
Li-Cycle
Dawei Li
Chief Commercial Officer
Li-Cycle
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Sponsors and Partners
Platinum 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.
Country-Focused Sponsor
Atlas Lithium Corporation (Nasdaq: ATLX) has hard-rock lithium assets and operations in Brazil. With an extensive lithium exploration portfolio spanning 539km2 — the largest among all publicly traded companies — Atlas Lithium stands as an emerging leader in the battery minerals sector. At the heart of its portfolio is the Neves Project, a premier spodumene lithium development situated in Brazil’s Lithium Valley.
Atlas Lithium’s Neves Project is in advanced implementation stage with all necessary operational permits secured and a fully fabricated DMS lithium processing plant paid for and in transit to Brazil. The Neves Project features robust ore bodies ideally suited for open-pit mining, low strip ratio, and with a phased development approach that optimizes both capital efficiency and market entry timing. Initial production will be at 150,000 tpa of high-quality spodumene concentrate, with planned expansion to 300,000 tpa within a year.
Gold Sponsor
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.
Bronze Sponsor
Jiangsu Haipu Functional Materials Co., Ltd. is a Chinese high-tech enterprise that focuses on providing separation and purification related new materials and intelligent equipment for energy metals, nuclear industry, resources and environmental protection, medicine and health, etc. Our core team of is composed of people with master’s degree and doctor’s degree who have worked in well-known companies and universities such as Dow, General Electric Company, Nanjing University and Suzhou University. Haipu has always attached great importance to technology research and development, and insisted on driving new quality productivity with material innovation. Some new adsorption materials developed by Haipu have broken the monopoly of foreign technology, filled the domestic gap, and reached the industry-leading level in related technical fields
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.
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.
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.
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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