This presentation will provide an SQM introduction covering online environmental monitoring in Salar de Atacama as well as life-cycle analysis of lithium production routes and lithium market and demand outlook.

Assessing Ni market development in the light of the Indonesian ban and growing demand in batteries and other industries will be discussed.

European Metals is developing the Cinovec Project – the largest hard rock lithium resource in Europe, located in the Cech Republic. The project is fully funded to Final Investment Decision, expected in late 2021 and is actively supported by both the Czech Government and the European Union. Cinovec will be a fully integrated project producing approximately 25,000 tpa of battery grade lithium hydroxide for the European Battery and EV industries.

Euro Manganese is advancing steadily with the development of a strategic new source of ultra-high purity manganese products in the Czech Republic to serve Europe’s rapidly emerging lithium-ion battery ecosystem. These products will assure customers impeccable provenance and a minimal environmental footprint, as they will be made by reprocessing old mining waste. The Chvaletice Manganese Project is also unique in that it will result in the environmental remediation of a polluted site.

Cobalt is facing a number of regulatory measures in Europe which will have an impact on the ability to use cobalt in batteries. This presentation will focus on these regulations, their impacts and alternative approaches to regulations.

This presentation will address lithium-ion battery supply chain dynamics: challenges & opportunities as well as raw material bottlenecks; lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and financing the EV supply chain; capital requirements to meet the EV demand of the coming decade.

How the transition from a carbon-based economy to a renewable one impacts demand for battery raw materials. The dramatic technology advances in battery development continue to gather pace with overall costs dropping by more than 50% over the past 6 years, with costs estimated to drop another 30%-60% over the next 5 years, depending upon technology. We will explore how all of these changes will impact battery materials. 

Single-crystal cathode materials with layered structures have gained the spotlight as promising materials for high-performance Li-ion batteries. They provide remarkable performance and safety characteristics unmatched by traditional polycrystalline counterparts. The presentation will review the technology development of single-crystal nickel-based cathodes in the past 10 years. In addition, the session will show how the raw materials market has been affected by this technology.

This presentation will examine the latest innovations in low-cost carbon-neutral battery materials.

This presentation will examine our approach to recycling lithium-ion cathode material from manufacturing waste.

The US DOE cost goals associated with large-scale EV adoption require low-cost (i.e. $10/kg) cathode. Cobalt thrifting is a strategy to achieve manufacturing cost goals, but it is counter-productive for cobalt recovery – can the recycling industry survive? This presentation will discuss recycling methodologies in light of cost goals and market realities and how OnTo’s approaches are technically appropriate for the EV industry.

Making the supply chain more sustainable is high on the agenda for the fast-growing battery industry. Manufacturing of critical battery materials is energy intensive and can come with significant negative environmental impacts. This presentation explores how high-performance anode materials can be produced in a sustainable way and introduces advanced materials for thermal management and sealing of battery packs with >1 million EVs on the road today protected by Elkem.