Fastmarkets looks ahead to 2024 and beyond at some key developments for the battery materials market as the clean energy transition faces a challenging global economic and geopolitical backdrop

Market participants across the lithium value chain have been speculating over the price floor for spodumene, a key feedstock to produce lithium chemicals, amid sustained weakness in prices

China has approved the export of graphite anode raw materials to South Korean battery material makers after it started regulations on the exports of certain graphite products on December 1, but concerns over exports remain

Learn more about the growth in lithium hydroxide futures contracts at the CME for January 2024

The rise in capacity-building in the past years in both China and Indonesia quickly turned nickel market once in short-supply into an oversupplied one, not only in China, but also globally

Payables for black mass (shredded and sorted lithium-ion batteries) in the European domestic market continued to drop in the week to January 15 amid weak demand and abundant supply

Stardust Power Inc is to build a battery-grade lithium refinery in Oklahoma in the United States, with major construction starting later in 2024, the US-based company’s founder and chief executive officer told Fastmarkets

Major carmaker Mercedes-Benz has deepened its plans to expand operations in Europe’s lithium-ion battery recycling space with the order of a new hydrometallurgical plant to recover battery metals from black mass

Hamburg-based copper producer Aurubis is considering the US and Europe among options for a future black mass recycling plant, chief executive officer Roland Harings told Fastmarkets on Monday January 8

Clearer standards are required in order to support the sustainable growth of its lithium-ion battery recycling sector