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The complexities and opacity of global supply chains impact all commodity markets. The drive towards a low-carbon, sustainable future is giving rise to a new generation of markets with vastly different supply chains that pose new challenges and opportunities for all market participants.
We’ve seen not only how labor shortages due to the Covid-19 pandemic have affected the global production and distribution of metals and mining as well as forest products, but also how Russia’s war on Ukraine has vastly altered the movement of grains and oilseeds.
For new generation energy markets, recent policy changes and new regulations on the nearshoring of battery materials are adding a new layer of complexity to this supply chain.
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Australia-based graphite miner Syrah Resources has signed two binding offtake agreements with Graphex Technologies, a multinational purified spherical graphite producer, and Westwater Resources, a US-based junior graphite anode producer, the miner said on Thursday August 3
Recently approved at the European Parliament, a new legislation that sets rules for batteries used in electric mobility devices is an important policy step to secure supply chains, though not necessarily ground-breaking, according to analysts and market participants
Developments in prevalent battery chemistries and geopolitical moves to onshore key battery raw materials (BRM) supply will likely require significant changes to the manganese sulfate supply chain, Fastmarkets understands
NextSource has begun flake graphite production at its Molo mine in Madagascar ahead of a potential bottleneck in natural and synthetic graphite anode material produced outside of China, executive vice president Brent Nykoliation told Fastmarkets
Fastmarkets experts use the Fastmarkets NewGen lithium long-term forecast to explore Europe’s lithium reserves and look into whether there is adequate lithium supply to meet the soaring demand for sustainable energy solutions
The battery raw materials markets continued to be confused and uncertain because of the requirements about the sourcing of key raw materials set out by the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday July 12
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