Downstream company

Tianjin Bamo

Battery-material producer identified by Amnesty as a historical Huayou cobalt customer.

Sources support the description and the individual connections below. Publication and checking dates refer to the evidence, not a guarantee of current operations.

Documented relationships

Reported means the cited source describes the relationship at its evidence date. Historical relationships refer to an earlier period. Announced agreements may not have been implemented. None of these labels confirms that trade continues today.

  • Zhejiang Huayou CobaltTianjin Bamo
    Historical · Evidence as of 2013 · From 2013-01-01 · Until 2013-12-31

    Reported supply

    Amnesty identified Tianjin Bamo as a buyer of Huayou cobalt using 2013 sales records. This is a historical customer relationship, not current supply verification.

    2 sources
    1. Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries ↗

      Amnesty International · Published 2016-01-19 · Checked 2026-09-16

      Huayou Cobalt supplies cobalt to three lithium-ion battery component manufacturers Ningbo Shanshan and Tianjin Bamo from China and L&F Materials from South Korea.

      Following the supply chain – corporate shame. The next sentence dates the purchases to 2013. Same investigation as trade-amnesty-cobalt-report-2016, not independent corroboration.

    2. This is what we die for: Human rights abuses in the DRC power the global trade in cobalt ↗

      Amnesty International and Afrewatch · Published 2016-01-19 · Checked 2026-09-16

      CDM is a wholly and directly owned subsidiary of Huayou Cobalt.

      Printed page 52 (PDF page 52), From Congo to China; printed page 56 (PDF page 56), battery-component clients. Historical evidence cites 2013–2014 company documents.