Argus Metals Week

- Tackling Vietnam’s conflict materials: Starting with the consumers
- Business sustainability: From mining to downstream operations
- Responsibility throughout the supply chain
- Assessing ways of processing materials

- Analysing current tungsten pricing mechanism
- Transparency of mechanism
- Outlook for global trade and how this will affect pricing mechanism

- Africa’s rise as a major supplier of Tantalum units to the world market over the last 10 years and Australia’s decline
- Africa’s current robust world position and the evolution of due diligence, traceability and its effect on the ASM landscape
- New sources of 3T’s from South America and how that will affect supply
- Africa’s dominance versus future demand and the rise of the digitized world

- Overview
- Consumption trends and prospects
- Future supply potential
- Market balance and price outlook

- What are the factors implementing growth for the future
- Analysing the global scale: Growth in customer demands for high-capacity powder
- High range, nano-scale powder and its capacity in the use of capacitors
- Demand in the market: The methodology of structured materials
- Highlighting the advantages of using the product in the current manufacturing climate

- Low-cost capacity into the market
- What are the supply sources in the Americas and Europe?
- Non-China supply highlights
- New production from Spain
- Consistency and availability outside China

- Current supply overview
- South Crofty tin project update
- Assesses new use cases of tin
- Outlook of tin: Tin and new technology

These roundtables offer you a chance to join the group of your choice and be led in discussion by an industry expert. It is an ideal opportunity to ease into the more informal networking of the evening, enjoying a drink while you meet delegates with similar interests and concerns. The conference team will be in touch with you in the run-up to the event to ask you to select your table of choice — if you would like to suggest a topic or leader for a discussion, please contact Tonika.Campbell@argusmedia.com

Roundtable one: Tin

Expert leader: Jeremy Pearce, Technology Team Leader, International Tin Association

Roundtable two: Tantalum

Expert leader: Frederic Delforge, Senior Trader Specialty Metals, Traxys

Roundtable three: Tungsten

Expert leader: Mark Seddon, Senior Manager, Metals Consulting, Argus

- An update on supply and demand dynamics
- New resource and mining acquisition
- Assessing new appliances in electrification and how this is supporting growth in the market

- How has the market been affected by refinery closures in China after safety inspections?
- Production and raw material in Asia
- To what extent has China integrated to ammonium paratungstate (APT)?
- Stockpiles of APT in China and the overall impact on the tungsten market

- Benchmarking tantalum capacitors and other technologies
- High-energy density storage and delivery capability
- Assessing the use of tantalum capacitors in gallium nitride power systems
- New challenges
- Impact to the tantalum supply and demand market

- Assessing the scale of the scrap and recycling market
- Examining raw feed supply to suppliers and consumers
- Recycling back to a core product
- Sorting and refining of scrap metals
- Cemented carbide applications
- What is the outlook for cemented carbide production, and its uses?

Karin Laursen, Strategic Raw Materials Purchasing Manager, Global Tungsten & Powders

Cliff Nance, President, Tungco

- Responsibility of the buyer
- Expectations of stakeholders and supply chain assurance across industries
- Due diligence implementation and assurance

- Update on Dodd-Frank Conflict Minerals Provision 1502: Outlook on the provision and its effect on the industry
- Assessing EU regulation and how this has impacted expansion
- Conflict-free sourcing initiatives throughout the supply chain: From mining to logistics and government involvement
- Assessing how the industry can support local development in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighbouring countries

Panellists:

Maarten Gassmann, Head of Asian Business, Grondmet

Jim McCombie, Trader, Stapleford Trading

Michele Bruelhart, Director of Innovations, Responsible Minerals Initiative

Karin Laursen, Strategic Raw Materials Purchasing Manager, Global Tungsten & Powders