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#UPITS2025 Inauguration: PM @narendramodi & CM @myogiadityanath meet LOHUM Founder & CEO Rajat Verma. Grateful for holistic govt support in accelerating #AatmaNirbharBharat and #ViksitBharat via #NCMM. Meet us at #UPITS 2025 from Sep 26-29!

5/5 And the ministries & departments associated with #ESTIC2026: DAE, Ayush, DBT, DST, MoES, Education, MeitY, ICAR, DHR, ICMR, Space, DoT, and CSIR-NIIST.

4/5 His hope: by #ViksitBharat2047, "more than 10 Indian names" among scientists who have scaled technologies critical for the world. We thank Hon'ble PM Shri Narendra Modi, PSA Prof. Ajay K. Sood, @ESTIC2026 and @CSIR.

3/5 Pilot plants matter: "Doing something in a lab does not necessarily translate to doing it at commercial scale." At LOHUM: #cathode materials from pilot to plant, and #rareearthoxide to metal with CSIR-IMMT. #ESTIC2026

2/5 Three challenges every new materials maker faces: performance targets that keep moving, input costs that decide competitiveness, and customers who buy at scale and take time to qualify suppliers. #ESTIC2026

Inaugurated by Hon'ble PM Shri Narendra Modi, #ESTIC2026 brought Nobel laureates, ministries and global experts to New Delhi. LOHUM Founder & CEO Rajat Verma spoke on building an advanced manufacturing nation. 1/5

2/2 We’re building indigenous advanced manufacturing for advanced materials. We look forward to the discussion on how science, industry, and policymakers can build India’s #CriticalMinerals and #AdvancedMaterials capability together. #ESTIC2026

1/2 On 27 October, LOHUM Founder & CEO Rajat Verma, alongside Nobel Laureate and LOHUM Advisor Dr. Kostya Novoselov, speaks at the #AdvancedManufacturing session of @ESTIC2026, New Delhi. Chair: Dr. N. Kalaiselvi,@CSIR_IND DG. #ESTIC2026

(3/3) That is the impetus behind our 20-year agreement with Hindustan @copper_ltd to restart the 50,000 t/p.a. copper plant in Jhagadia, Gujarat. Read the copper edition of Critical Readings: #Copper #CRITICALREADINGS

(2/3) Copper is headed for a deficit of about 10% through 2035, and a new mine can take ~16 years to deliver. The copper already in India's retiring cables, motors and transformers can be recovered much faster.

(1/3) Every commodity with a mature recycling market now faces scrap trade restrictions from multiple jurisdictions, finds @McKinsey's Global Materials Perspective 2026. Importers, India included, now accept only higher grades.

(2/2) In London for LME Week? Connect with Vinayak to talk recycling, refining and advanced materials for the energy transition. #LMEweek

(1/2) LOHUM will be at LME Week 2026 in London, 19th–21st October, represented by Vinayak Singal, AVP, LOHUM. We look forward to conversations on resilient, diversified critical minerals supply chains. #LMEweek #CriticalMinerals

(3/3) Read the interview on Nikkei Asia: #CriticalMinerals #Lithium #ElectricVehicles #ViksitBharat

(2/3) First up: Zimbabwe. LOHUM is now the first Indian company mining lithium overseas, with a local lithium sulphate plant coming within 18 months. Refining in India completes the chain, creating value in both countries.

(1/3) India remains fully import-dependent for lithium, cobalt and nickel. Over 70% of global lithium refining capacity is concentrated in China, by industry estimates. Founder & CEO Rajat Verma tells @NikkeiAsia why that must change.

(3/3) One source of supply does not run on that cycle and is already inside the cities that need it. Read LOHUM #CRITICALREADINGS: Where Is the Next 800 Million Tonnes of Copper? #Copper #CircularEconomy #CriticalMinerals

(2/3) Copper is not scarce in the crust. The constraint is the clock. Average time from discovery to first production runs to about sixteen years, so decisions taken now land in the 2040s.

(1/3) Roughly 784 million tonnes of copper have been mined across the whole of recorded history. Producing about the same again within three decades is now the requirement.

🇮🇳🇨🇦 From Partnership to Pilots | At a CII & Canadian High Commission roundtable with Hon. Warren Kaeding, Saskatchewan's Minister of Trade and Export Development, LOHUM Founder & CEO Rajat Verma delivered the opening remarks.

He co-moderated the discussion with Scott Matthies, MD, Saskatchewan India Office, joined by Tarun Singhal, Director, LOHUM. Saskatchewan can already be found in three places in Indian life: the soil, the plate, and the grid.

The conversation moved from potash, pulses, and uranium to the next frontier: #CriticalMinerals. We look forward to a long-term partnership with Saskatchewan on technology co-development, joint R&D, and trade. #IndiaCanada