Want to hear how the world’s best hydrometallurgists are tackling rare-earth separation (SX), hashtagbatteryrecycling, critical minerals processing and industrial scale-up? In one room?
Join us at ICHS 2026 in Mechelen, Belgium, from 2-4 September.
We designed this symposium differently. No parallel tracks. No dilution. Just 15 invited keynote speakers from leading companies and universities worldwide, including Glencore, Umicore, Aurubis, Fortum, Veolia, LKAB, CARESTER, Colorado School of Mines, McGill University, KU Leuven and others.
These are the people developing, operating and scaling the processes that underpin the hashtagcleanenergy transition and Europe’s hashtagcriticalminerals ambitions.
On the menu:
👉 Dr. Corby G. Anderson, PE Anderson (Colorado School of Mines) – Circular hydrometallurgy of hashtagantimony
👉 David Bengio (CARESTER) – Mitigation of environmental impacts of hashtagRareEarths extraction from Ion Adsorption Clay deposits by controlled In-Situ Leaching followed by Solvent Extraction
👉 Koen Binnemans (KU Leuven) – Reagent independence by hashtagcircularhydrometallurgy
👉 Oluf Bøckman (Glencore Nikkelverk AS) – Circular chemistry with hydrometallurgy in the centre
👉 Frank Crundwell (CM Solutions Metlab) – Electronic structure vs Passivation: What’s the Story with the Dissolution of Chalcopyrite?
👉 George P Demopoulos (McGill University) – Advanced hydrometallurgical processes for sustainable Li-ion battery material synthesis and recycling
👉 jacqueline edge (University of Birmingham) – The battery fluorine problem
👉 Peik Ekman (Fortum) – On-site electrochemical production of key chemicals for hydrochemical processing of EoW Li-ion batteries
👉 Mårten Eriksson (Umicore) – Toward Zero-waste hashtagpCAM: Circular Hydrometallurgy in Action
👉 Jan Luyten (Umicore) – Circularity at Umicore Precious Metals Refining: challenges and opportunities
👉 Alain Rollat (CARESTER) – The Rare Earths separation – Is there an industrial alternative to hashtagSolventExtraction?
👉 Anders Sand (LKAB) – From Mine Residues to CRMs through Circular Hydrometallurgy – LKAB’s hashtagREEMAP Story
👉 Kathy Sole (University of Pretoria) – Solvent extraction and ion exchange as enabling technologies in circular hydrometallurgy flowsheets
👉 Anne-Cecile Valentin (Veolia Water Tech) – The salty elephant and the sodium sulphate problem
👉 Niels Verbaan (Verbaan Consulting) – Why do we pilot hydrometallurgical processes? Industry track record in ramping-up critical minerals projects. Perspective of a hydrometallurgist
👉 Christoph Ziegler (Aurubis) – The in-house development of Aurubis’ new precious metals refining process
REGISTRATION
At the time of writing, we already have 150 participants (70 posters + international exhibition boots (incl. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan – Uzbekistan Technological Metals Complex (TMK)). Registration link in comment section below.
