Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

Recently the BMW Group signed a cobalt supply contract with Moroccan mining company Managem Group ; the contract has a volume of around €100 million, said Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. Managem is one of the world’s 5 largest producers of high-purity cobalt cathodes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. For the BMW Group’s purchasing experts, ethically responsible raw material extraction and processing begins at the mines themselves. Cobalt will be sourced directly from mines in Australia and Morocco in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. The BMW Group will source the cobalt needed as a key raw material for cell production directly from mines in Australia and Morocco and make it available to CATL and Samsung SDI. —Andreas Wendt. —Andreas Wendt.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. Roskill expects the cobalt market to face more severe supply disruption should the prevention and control measures be further extended on a global scale.

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