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

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Rising cobalt prices won’t dent battery sector demand

Cobalt market participants attending last week’s MMTA conference in Sheffield, UK, claimed that cobalt price rises that have supported the market since the beginning of the year will not lead to falling demand from the quickly-growing battery industry

April 21, 2022

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By: the Fastmarkets team

African copper, cobalt logistics chain under pressure as truckers avoid DRC

Producers are increasingly finding it hard to transport their copper and cobalt out of operation sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due to truckers choosing to stay away from the country’s border

April 19, 2022

Making sense of the evolving battery materials market

Access Fastmarkets' checklist for battery materials analysts below