Freeport Cobalt visits Asian Metal

On Thursday October 23rd, Jack Huang, general manager of Freeport Cobalt paid a visit to Asian Metal and discussed the cobalt market with Vera Deng, assistant market analyst of Asian Metal.

During the discussion, Vera mainly talked about the supply and demand situation of Chinese cobalt tetroxide, lithium cobalt oxide as well as other cobalt products in Chinese domestic market and related export and import situation. Mr. Huang made an analysis of supply of the cobalt resources towards 2015.

In the end, Mr. Huang made a brief introduction of its head company, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, whose business includes gold, copper, cobalt, molybdenum, natural gas and petroleum exploitation. Moreover, the head company acquired the refinery owing to OMG in 2013, which is located in Kokkola Finland. And then the company has developed its cobalt business from single cobalt hydroxide supply to diversified cobalt products supply, such as cobalt sulfate, cobalt tetroxide, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide and so on.