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Making sense of the evolving battery materials market

Access Fastmarkets' checklist for battery materials analysts below

As the demand for battery materials skyrockets, analysts face a pressing challenge: How do you build concrete analysis for a historically opaque market? In this rapidly progressing landscape, having the right insights is key. Your analysis combined with reliable data and information can provide businesses clarity to inform their tactics, secure their supply chains and stay ahead in the fiercely competitive battery materials market.
Do you have access to the most up-to-date price data and market analysis?

As an analyst, you’re well aware of the importance of reliable data and insights, but every team has its blind spots. This is especially true in such a volatile market. Use our checklist to better understand what you could be missing out on in the rapidly evolving battery materials market. Examine key questions including:

  • Do you have visibility over supply and demand forecasts for strategic planning? 
  • Do you have an outlook on the supply and demand of key materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt? Do you know how this would affect the prices of battery materials?
  • Do you have enough information from across the value chain to be able to provide insights to different stakeholders?
  • Do you have transparency over the entire supply chain?
  • How granular is your current data?

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Find out what’s happening in the battery raw materials market
Why there’s still time to avoid a lithium supply crunch

Lithium production must quadruple between 2020 and 2030 to meet growing demand, from 345,000 tonnes in 2020 to 2 million tonnes in 2030. That is the biggest challenge and opportunity facing the lithium industry in the next decade

July 1, 2021
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By: William Adams
FOCUS: Battle begins to recycle millions of EV batteries

Work is under way in Fredrikstad, Norway, to build a plant that will be key to electric vehicle (EV) transportation in Europe.

June 21, 2021
German automaker Volkswagen seeks vertical integration to achieve security of battery raw materials supply

Volkswagen Group is seeking partnerships with battery raw material producers in order to vertically integrate and achieve security of supply and competitive prices for its minerals needs, a spokesperson for the German automaker told Fastmarkets on Thursday June 17.

June 17, 2021
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By: Dalila Ouerghi
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