Our Sponsors

Albemarle is a global leader transforming vital resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity, and health. With our world-class lithium and bromine resources, technical and process knowledge, and safety and sustainability performance, we partner with our customers to pioneer new ways to move, power, connect, and protect.
As a values-driven company, we understand it is no longer enough to build things stronger and faster. We have to be cleaner, safer and more innovative. Through the world’s most diverse and reliable supply chain, we adapt, manage and utilize our world’s most essential resources to create the greatest value out of every molecule. Because to help lead the way in progressing modern living, we must also lead the way in safe and responsible operations.
At Albemarle, we are committed to building a more resilient world where people and planet thrive.

KBR delivers science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR has two business units: Government Solutions and Sustainable Technology Solutions
KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions offerings include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets. The combination of KBR’s offerings provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle.

• Technology: With a proven history of developing and commercializing innovative process technologies for refinery, olefins, chemicals, inorganics and fertilizer industries, KBR’s Technology team provides efficient, sustainable solutions.

• Consultancy: A leading global provider of professional consulting solutions for our customers in the natural resources and industrial markets. Consulting’s value proposition is based on thought leadership, through technical excellence and understanding of industry, technology and market trends.

• Technology-Led Industrial Solutions (TLIS): TLIS combines KBR’s unparalleled asset life cycle domain expertise with disruptive digital solutions to be our client’s trusted partner for safe delivery of enhanced sustainable business performance, in terms of improved production, maximized reliability and optimized energy consumption at reduced OPEX.

• Integrated Solutions: Integrated Solutions is the engineering and project delivery group within Sustainable Technology Solutions. Services include front-end engineering, detailed engineering, procurement services, construction management services and program management.

The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME’s three trading platforms totalling $15.2 trillion, 134.2 million lots and 3.1 billion tonnes in 2022.
Participants can transfer or take on price risk against aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, molybdenum, cobalt, lithium, steel scrap, rebar and hot-rolled coil as well as aluminium premiums and alloys.
In December 2022, approximately 650,000 tonnes of material were held on LME warrant in more than 450 storage facilities in 14 countries across 32 global locations
The LME is a member of HKEX Group.

Minviro is a science-based consultancy and software provider - offering a deeper level to sustainability. They bring the knowledge and tools necessary for impact reduction to people and businesses globally. From guiding material and technology companies in the low-carbon transition to making essential intelligence accessible. Through a recognised framework for analysing impacts, they build transparent roadmaps with actionable insights. Shaping a future where all ingredients of modern technology are produced with consideration and minimal effect on the environment.

SCT is the world’s leading engineering firm for the lithium refinery. We can provide turnkey solution to lithium salt production line ranged from 5,000 tons to 60,000 tons per year (single line capacity). Up to date, we have altogether done over 20 lithium conversion plants globally where we are ranked 1st in lithium salt design capacity, which covers more than 85% of the global spodumene refinery market share.

We can provide a full life cycle lithium refinery solution including the following works:

●Testworks Including Laboratory, Pilot and Demo Plants

●Scoping and Feasibility Studies

●Engineering Project Consulting

●Engineering Design

●Equipment Design and Manufacturing

●Project Management

●EPC Service

●Plant Commissioning and Production Management

●Process and Performance Guarantees

As the world’s leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world’s leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing.

E3 Lithium (E3) is Canada’s leading lithium developer aiming to power the growing electric vehicle revolution. E3 is poised to produce sustainable battery-grade lithium products from one of the largest resources globally in the world-class Leduc Reservoir. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, E3’s team of technical and business experts is making steady and significant progress towards commercialization, while operating its business to meet or exceed the highest standards of Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) practices.
With a vision to fuel the global transition towards a brighter energy future, E3 plans to deliver lithium products from one of the best jurisdictions in the world with reduced carbon emissions and minimal freshwater, while using less than 3% of the land of typical lithium projects, with no tailings or evaporative ponds.

GeoLith is a Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) technology provider. Its Li-Capt® technology enables local and sustainable lithium production from any liquid source, including geothermal waters, oil produced waters and salar brines. Li-Capt® is highly selective of lithium and has recovery rates greater than 95%, with a modular, scalable technology. The technology has been proven at pilot scale thanks to three operating pilots in France, Chile and UK, both with European and South American lithium resources.
GeoLith is currently undergoing its industrialisation process, aiming for full industrial performances, and manufacturing capabilities by the end of 2024. GeoLith provides a critical technological brick for green and sustainable battery manufacturing and recycling, which at the same time allows to increase production and secure the supply of this critical material.

At Saint-Gobain Ceramics, we design and manufacture tailored material solutions for our customers, worldwide. Our advanced ceramic materials solutions enable industry leaders to meet the toughest application requirements in a broad range of markets, such as: Lithium Extraction, Energy, Aerospace, Semiconductors, and many others! Our team of skilled scientists works in close collaboration with customers to develop refined solutions that meet each customer’s needs. Together, we can go further!”

Wave International supports global energy evolution via specialist consulting services.

We apply our technical and commercial knowledge to advise clients, engineer solutions, and deliver built assets that:

• Contribute to developing new materials supply chains.
• Grow, and make more efficient, existing materials supply chains.
• Provide sustainable energy and water infrastructure.

We provide consulting services in advisory, engineering and project delivery to tech metals, mineral sands, gold / base metals, and bulk commodities markets. Our projects are in natural resources, mid stream refining, materials recovery and enabling infrastructure.Backed by over 20 years of experience in the lithium industry, Wave have been pioneering development of the industry and supply chains globally, and making their contribution to global energy transitions.

Wave are headquartered in Australia, with operations in Europe, Canada and Mongolia.