Mining Magazine April 2019 | Page 54

SUSTAINABILITY & CSR
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“ The scale of lithium ion battery manufacturing capacity growth is unstoppable ”

— Brian Menell , CEO , TechMet consumer goods , which are increasingly scrutinised and potentially disrupted as a result of speculation of the ethics of origin of materials ,” he explains . “ We can add value to our products by being highly sustainable and ethically governed , maintaining stronger positions in a country by operating in a responsible manner .”
In order for the supply of key metals not to be a massive constraint on the scale of adoption of new systems globally , a lot more money needs to be spent on developing new resources and processing capacity stresses
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