Supplier
Pilbara Halide Co.
Western Australia
A refiner producing battery-grade lithium hydroxide to specification, but unknown to the buyers writing the qualification lists.
Halide — Energy · Materials
Refined material, met by demand.
Lithium refinerCell manufacturers
Australia → Central Europe
The mandate
Halide
A mid-tier refiner could deliver battery-grade lithium hydroxide to spec, but sat outside the qualified-supplier lists of the gigafactories that needed exactly that.
We ran the introduction and the qualification in parallel — bridging the technical diligence, the sampling, and the commercial terms until the refiner held an audited place in two European supply chains.
The two sides
Buyer
Two cell manufacturers
Poland & Hungary
Gigafactories de-risking their cathode supply with a second qualified source outside their incumbent contracts.
Outcome
2
gigafactories qualified the source
11 mo
of diligence, brokered end to end
5 yr
framework off-take agreed
“Spec was never the problem. Being on the list was.”