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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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Electronics, Hardware, Architecture
POSCO’s Train 2 to complete construction at South Korean lithium hydroxide conversion facility in December

POSCO Pilbara Lithium Solution (PPLS) will complete construction of Train 2 at its lithium hydroxide monohydrate conversion facility in Gwangyang, South Korea, by early December 2024, a company source told Fastmarkets, with delivery of the first batch of lithium hydroxide expected within two months from then.

November 22, 2024
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By: Zihao Li
Electronics, Hardware, Computer Hardware
Trump re-election signals uncertainties for China’s EV and battery industry amid potential policy shifts and tariffs

China’s electric vehicle (EV) and battery industry participants expect more uncertainty under a second Donald Trump presidency amid the president-elect’s intention to scale back the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and pursue expanded protectionist trade policies, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday November 7

November 19, 2024
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By: Dylan Duan
Car, Transportation, Vehicle
Silicon anode development promising despite turbulent ex-China graphite progress, Group14 CEO says

The market for silicon anodes is likely to develop rapidly, independently of growth in the ex-China graphite supply chain, according to the chief executive officer of a leading silicon anode producer.

November 19, 2024
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By: Solomon Cefai
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