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BMW Group sources sustainable cobalt worth around €100M from Morocco for fifth-gen batteries

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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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BMW Group signs €540M supply contract with Ganfeng for lithium from mines in Australia

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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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BMW boosts CATL battery order to €7.3B, signs €2.9B battery order with Samsung SDI

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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.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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Roskill has so far recorded the closure of 21 operations as a result of the outbreak, including: Vale’s Voisey’s Bay and Glencore’s Sudbury in Canada; Ambatovy in Madagascar; Coral Bay and Taganito in the Philippines; CTT in Morocco.

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