IMFORMED is delighted to announce Fluorine Forum 2025 is to take place on
22-24 October 2025 at the Grand Hotel Dino, Baveno, Lake Maggiore, Italy.
Fluorine Forum 2025 will bring together a panel of leading experts to examine and discuss the latest trends and developments in fluorine minerals supply and market demand.
The conference will be essential to all those active or with an interest in the fluorine mineral supply chain, from exploring, developing and mining fluorspar sources and alternative F sources, through logistics and processing, to end use applications and market demand trends.
Confirmed speakers
Life Synfluor: circular economy applied to fluorine chemistry
Michele Lavanga, Special Projects Director, Fluorsid, Italy
Fluorspar supply & demand outlook
Alison Saxby, Research Director, Project Blue, UK
Fluorspar usage in cement production
Hakan Tamer, General Manager, Tamer Mining, Turkey
China’s fluorspar supply, demand & market review
Eileen Hao, Managing Director, Australia Minerals & Resources, Australia
Unlocking Silius’ geological potential: reserves upgrading of Europe’s largest fluorite deposit
Simone Cirinei, Mining Geologist, Mineraria Gerrai, Italy
Fluorspar’s future: Northern Mexico’s untapped deposits
Alberto Ramos, Managing Director, Grupo MIRASA, Mexico
Scaling-up HF-free production of fluorochemicals: New routes towards Li-ion battery electrolyte salts
Dr Gabriele Pupo, CEO, FluoRok Ltd, UK
Fluorochemicals review and market outlook
Samantha Wietlisbach, Head of Inorganics and Minerals Research, S&P Global Commodity Insights, Switzerland
HF in new energy applications
Oliver Rhode, Director Business Development, Alkeemia SpA, Germany
Production of fluorine from phosphate rock mine waste
Fluoralpha, Morocco
Nuclear renaissance & the impact on the fluorochemical value chain
Chris Potgieter, Director Business Development, BFluor Chemicals (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
New developments in AHF purification
Julian Mache, Technology Manager Fluorine, BUSS ChemTech AG, Switzerland
Fluorochemicals with irreplaceable applications in semiconductor materials processing
Dr Robert Syvret, Owner, Fluorine Chemistry and Technology, LLC, USA
For this year’s Fluorine Forum venue we have chosen the excellent Grand Hotel Dino on the shore of Lake Maggiore at Baveno, Italy.
Beautiful Lake Maggiore is the second largest lake in Italy, and the largest in southern Switzerland. Located halfway between Lake Orta and Lake Lugano, Lake Maggiore extends for about 65km between Locarno and Arona.
The hotel is just 50mins from Milan International Malpensa Airport (more hotel details here).
What delegates said about Fluorine Forum 2024:
Thank you for an excellent conference in Ulaanbaatar which, as expected, went very well.
Peter Robinson, Chairman, Fluorspar Ventures Ltd, UK
Excellent and well structured programme, good venue.
Francesco Latini, Commercial Director Minerals, Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials, USA
This forum offers us, for many years now, the opportunity to talk to customers, suppliers and others. Many interesting papers were held during the two days and always keep us up to date. We had a wonderful time. We would like to thank you for this great and professionally organised event. We will be there again next year and are already looking forward to exciting topics.
Carl Spaeter GmbH, Germany
Good organisation and venue, the Forum helped us to find and meet new customers.
Li Xiaobo, General Director, Erenhot Yirong Import & Export, China
Good programme, roundtables and venue; market information included deep insights for different perspectives.
Kamimura Takumi, Manager, Sojitz. Corp., Japan
Mike O’Driscoll presented “Fluorspar’s future in batteries: Can it achieve ‘critical mass’?” at the SME 2025 Annual Conference, Denver, 26 February – addressing the outlook for fluorine supply, impacted by recently “lost” production capacities, declining production in China, and trying to meet rising market demand, where will future supply come from?
Click here to access a free PDF download of the presentation
