2023 will be the year the auto industry secures manganese

By Anna Fleming

Only a few weeks into 2023 and interest is already building in the battery manganese market.  

Offtake discussions were bubbling behind closed doors during 2022 before Element 25 and Euro Manganese publicly announced tie-ins with Stellantis and Verkor, respectively, in early January 2023.  

Until these recent announcements there were no public supply arrangements for battery-grade manganese products, which left manganese an ‘odd one out’ amongst battery raw material peers.