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

China’s removal of cobalt tariff from 2023 unlikely to affect market amid thin domestic demand

China has decided to remove its import tariff on cobalt metal (Harmonized System code 81052020), a move which is not expected to largely impact the domestic market due to weak demand for the metal, sources told Fastmarkets

January 5, 2023

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By: Zihao Li

US dives into lithium battery recycling: 2023 preview

An intense interest in lithium battery recycling in the US has grown in the past few years, driven by concerns over supply chains, national security, the environment and a growing interest in electric vehicles (EVs)

January 4, 2023

Making sense of the evolving battery materials market

Access Fastmarkets' checklist for battery materials analysts below