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International Iron Ore & Green Steel Summit 2026
As a relatively recent entrant in metals, Vitol is leveraging 60 years of logistical expertise and trading capacity to grow its presence in both ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Vitol serves wholesalers and industrial customers worldwide. Our business is built on investment in long-term partnerships and a focus on finding optimal solutions for our customers. As the world’s leading trader of energy and commodities, Vitol is able to offer customers comprehensive and bespoke solutions, from financing through to cross-commodity arrangements.
Cargill helps the world’s food system work for you. We connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients and families with daily essentials—from the foods they eat to the floors they walk on. Our 155,000 team members around the world innovate with purpose, empowering our partners and communities as we work to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, sustainable way.
Headquartered in Singapore, Cargill’s metals business provides value-adding services and solutions along the global ferrous supply chain. Combining over 150 years track record of risk management in global commodities markets with more than 40 years unique insights in the ferrous industry, we provide our customers the support they need to thrive. Cargill Metals operates across over 25 ports and more than 50 warehouses globally, providing physical and financial solutions to over 2,500 customers in 40 countries. Each year we move around 50 million tons of physical iron ore and 6 million tons of physical steel globally. About Cargill Ocean Transportation
Founded in 1956 in Geneva, Cargill Ocean Transportation is a leading freight-trading organization and charterer of approximately 650 vessels at a time. Each year, our ships make around 4,000 voyages and move around 200 million tons of dry and wet bulk commodities around the world. Our global, multi-sector operations enable us to maintain a unique view of international trade and deliver first-class, customer-focused solutions. Together with our partners, we are committed to making zero carbon shipping a reality.
Champion Iron owns and operates the Bloom Lake mine located in the Labrador Trough, close to Fermont, Québec. Bloom Lake, an open-pit operation primarily sourcing energy from renewable hydroelectric power, produces 15Mtpa of low contaminant high-grade 66.2% Fe iron ore concentrate and proved its ability to produce a Direct Reduction quality iron ore concentrate. Champion’s high-purity product characteristics reduce emissions in the steelmaking process and facilitate the production of high-end steel. Champion is currently focused on further developing Direct Reduction iron ore products destined to support the global decarbonization of steel. Additionally, Champion owns exploration projects including the Kamistiatusset Project, near Bloom Lake, and the Consolidated Fire Lake North iron ore project in the Labrador Trough.
Midrex is the world’s leading direct reduced iron technology provider. For more than 55 years, we have delivered direct reduction technologies for iron and steelmakers worldwide. Today, about 70% of the world’s low-CO₂ DRI is produced using Midrex technologies. The MIDREX Process supports a range of lower-CO₂ emissions ironmaking pathways. Midrex delivers reliable, flexible operations from day one. From the world’s first 100% hydrogen DRI plant to the transformation of integrated steelworks in Europe and beyond, Midrex is setting the standard for sustainable ironmaking. To explore our technology, visit www.midrex.com.
At Rio Tinto, we’re working at pace to become the world’s most valued metals and mining business. Our core products – iron ore, copper, aluminium and lithium – are the building blocks of a cleaner, smarter future. We’re finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs, and delivering them to meet demand through exceptional performance. For more than 150 years, at operations across 35 countries, we’ve helped build and fuel the world we know. Now, we stand at the start of a new chapter, driven to help communities and nations to thrive through the energy transition.
SMS group is renowned worldwide for its future-oriented technologies and outstanding service for the metals industry. The company applies its 150 years of experience and its digital know-how to provide the industry continuously with innovative products and processes – even beyond its core business – and generates worldwide sales of around 4 billion euros. SMS is the right partner for challenging projects, and supports its customers throughout the lifecycle of their plants, enabling profitable and resource-efficient value creation chains. Paving the way for a carbon-neutral and sustainable metals industry is the company’s stated goal. As a global player with German roots, SMS takes responsibility for its more than 13,500 employees.
Anglo American is a leading global mining company focused on the responsible production of copper, premium iron ore and crop nutrients – future-enabling products that are essential for decarbonising the global economy, improving living standards, and food security. Our portfolio of world-class operations and outstanding mineral endowments offers value-accretive growth potential across all three businesses, positioning us to deliver into structurally attractive major demand growth trends.
Our integrated approach to sustainability and innovation drives our decision-making across the value chain, from how we discover new resources to how we mine, process, move and market our products to our customers – safely, efficiently and responsibly. Our Sustainability Strategy commits us to a series of stretching goals over different time horizons to ensure we build trust as a corporate leader, contribute to a healthy environment and help create thriving communities. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for our shareholders, for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, and for society as a whole. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.
Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CMP) is a leading supplier of high-grade magnetite iron ore products to the global steel industry, supplying over 15 million tonnes annually of iron ore and pellets. With more than 100 years of mining history, CMP is recognized as one of the few large-scale producers globally of premium magnetite pellet feed products for blast furnace and direct reduction steelmaking routes.
CMP’s operations are located across the mining valleys of Copiapó, Huasco, and Elqui in northern Chile, supporting the production of a diversified portfolio of magnetite products, including DR-grade pellet feed, BF-grade pellet feed, sinter feed, and pellets. Through its focus on magnetite products, CMP supports more efficient steelmaking routes and the transition toward lower-emission steel production.
CMP operates a fully integrated value chain across three independent operations, encompassing mining, processing, logistics, and port infrastructure. Strategically located along Chile’s Pacific coast, the company efficiently serves key steelmaking markets across MENA and Asia, supported by a strong commitment to operational excellence, innovation, sustainability, responsible mining practices, and the development of the communities and territories where it operates.
Lhg Mining was established in 2022, following the acquisition of MCR (Mineração Corumbaense Reunida) by J&F Group, the largest privately held Brazilian enterprise and the parent company of JBS, the world’s largest producer of animal protein. This marked the group’s first initiative in the mining sector. The company owns two mines in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil, with vast reserves of high-grade iron ore and manganese ore. Its natural lump ore’s quality positions Lhg Mining as one of the best existing alternative source in the world for the production of green steel. The company operates with a lean structure of approximately 3,000 employees and manages its own private port along with an integrated mining and logistics system.
LKAB is an international mining and minerals group that offers iron ore, minerals and special products. We are committed to developing carbon-free processes by 2045, leading the transformation of the iron and steel industry. Since 1890 we have developed through unique innovations and technological solutions and are driven forward by more than 5,000 employees in 12 countries. In 2024, the LKAB group had sales of about SEK 33 billion. lkab.com
Primetals Technologies is a worldwide leading engineering, plant-building, and lifecycle services partner for the metals industry. The company provides metals producers with cutting-edge, custom-tailored plant equipment and services.
Our latest focus areas include solutions for carbon-reduced and decarbonized iron- and steel production, the digitalization of all production-related processes, advanced automation as summed up by the term “Industry 4.0”, future-oriented designs for linked casting and rolling, as well as advanced process analysis and optimization.
This portfolio covers every step of the iron and steel production chain, extending from the raw materials to the finished product – in addition to the latest rolling solutions for the nonferrous metals sector.
Primetals Technologies, Limited, headquartered in London, United Kingdom, is a pioneer in the metals industry. The company is a Group Company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with around 7,000 employees worldwide. To learn more about Primetals Technologies, visit the company website primetals.com
Samarco is a Brazilian mining company whose operations begin at the inland Germano mining and concentration complex and extend to the coastal Ubu site, where pelletizing and export activities are located. The two sites are connected by slurry pipelines running approximately 400 kilometers, enabling integrated logistics. At Ubu, the company operates pelletizing plants and a deep water port, producing high grade iron ore pellets, for direct reduction (DR) and blast furnace (BF). In 2025, Samarco became the third largest exporter of iron ore pellets in the transoceanic market, producing over 15 million tonnes. The company currently operates at about 60% of its capacity and is investing to reach full capacity by 2028.
Binding Solutions is a fast-growing technology company that has developed a patented and proprietary process for significantly reducing carbon emissions in iron making, enabling green steel production at scale. Our cold agglomeration technology reduces process complexity, lowers capital requirements and significantly cuts emissions of CO2, NOx and SOx by replacing traditional technologies (induration and sintering) in iron and steel making. Our technology can also monetise waste fine materials from metals production by converting them into cold agglomerated pellets that can be added back to the furnace. Binding Solutions’ technology is suitable for Blast Furnace and Direct Reduction applications, and we remains focused on providing a modular, low capital intensity means to provide the market with iron ore pellets with significant reduction in emissions
SMS group is renowned worldwide for its future-oriented technologies and outstanding service for the metals industry. The company applies its 150 years of experience and its digital know-how to provide the industry continuously with innovative products and processes – even beyond its core business – and generates worldwide sales of around 4 billion euros. SMS is the right partner for challenging projects, and supports its customers throughout the lifecycle of their plants, enabling profitable and resource-efficient value creation chains. Paving the way for a carbon-neutral and sustainable metals industry is the company’s stated goal. As a global player with German roots, SMS takes responsibility for its more than 13,500 employees.protein. This marked the group’s first initiative in the mining sector. The company owns two mines in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil, with vast reserves of high-grade iron ore and manganese ore. Its natural lump ore’s quality positions Lhg Mining as one of the best existing alternative source in the world for the production of green steel. The company operates with a lean structure of approximately 3,000 employees and manages its own private port along with an integrated mining and logistics system.