Held from Monday, November 11th to Friday, November 15th, 2019, at the Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, USA, Benchmark Minerals Week is the premier lithium ion battery and electric vehicle supply chain event of the year with a focus on the key battery raw materials of lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite anode. The conference brings together two of the highest quality and leading commercial events:

  • Graphite + Anodes 2019 – Monday 11 to Tuesday 12 November 2019
  • Cathodes 2019 – Tuesday 12 (PM) to Thursday 14 November 2019

Members of the M.Plan team were in attendance, delivering a presentation on graphite purification and participating in a specialty minerals debate.

In his presentation, “Graphite Purification: Alternatives, Challenges and Cost”, given at the Processing Briefing session for the Graphite + Anodes portion of the conference, Dr. Reiner Haus provides expert commentary comparing and contrasting the different graphite purification technologies. To watch a video highlight of Dr. Haus’s presentation, please click here.

During the Cathodes segment of the conference, Dr. Christian Graf was a panellist for a debate on lithium brine versus spodumene.

At M.Plan International, our focus is specialties.