Battery manufacturer that announced a 2020–2024 cobalt hydroxide supply agreement with Glencore.
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EcoPro BM's corporate history and contemporary reporting record a cathode-material contract with Samsung SDI covering 2024–2028; trade reporting identifies NCA chemistry.
EcoProBM Enters Long-Term Supply Contract With Samsung SDI for Cathode Materials
The supply agreement is valid from 2024 to 2028
An accumulated 200,000 tons of cathodes were supplied to Samsung SDI until 2023, EcoPro BM said.
POSCO Chemical, subsequently POSCO Future M, signed a ten-year NCA cathode-material supply contract on January 30, 2023, covering 2023–2032.
The products supplied by POSCO Future M are high-nickel NCM and NCMA cathode materials
supply high-nickel NCA cathode materials for electric vehicle batteries to Samsung SDI
Umicore announced a multi-year agreement for almost 80,000 tonnes of NMC cathode materials, starting in 2020; historical agreement evidence.
Umicore has signed a multi-year strategic agreement with Samsung SDI
The five-year agreement covered 2020–2024 and specified DRC industrial mining origin without naming individual mines. Its stated period has ended.
Glencore has today signed a five year agreement with Samsung SDI for the supply of cobalt hydroxide.