Tamako Azumakawa

The conference program spans critical minerals, battery recycling, and e-waste recycling. Critical minerals sessions address closed-loop recovery and commercial deployment, U.S. import reliance and supply-chain risk, rare-earth market outlooks, circular-materials tracking, base-metals supply planning, digital marketplaces, China’s position in critical-minerals supply chains, domestic supply-chain policy, and critical-minerals strategy for aerospace and defense. Other sessions cover tungsten valuations, high-purity silica quartz, AI applications, combustible-dust safety standards, and investor perspectives on mergers and acquisitions in circular business models. Battery recycling topics include North American circularity policies, domestic battery-material supply chains, gigafactory design, end-of-life battery regulation and recovery, recycling infrastructure, evolving battery chemistries, AI, and LFP recycling and refining. E-waste sessions address state-level policy and extended producer responsibility, recovery of materials from e-waste, the waste implications of data-center growth, urban mining and traceability, data privacy, solar-panel recycling, and U.S. Commercial Service resources for recyclers.