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
Sponsorship enquiries
Raise your profile with an influential audience: secure your branding
and sponsorship packages by speaking to Gabriella Zhao
Email：gabriella.zhao@fastmarkets.com
Tel：+86 18310685593
WeChat：FMevents
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
Associations
Media Partners
