Eurobattery Minerals: New member of the board and featured in German documentary
23.02.2024Late December 2023, Eckhard Cordes was appointed as new board member in Eurobattery Minerals after an extraordinary general meeting.
Eckhard Cordes and Roberto García Martínez
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Eckhard Cordes is a highly regarded business leader in Europe and his experience will bring a lot of valuable insights and industry knowledge to Eurobattery Minerals, among other things. His previous positions include various executive roles such as CEO of the Mercedes Car Group and Member of the executive board of Daimler, and Board member of SKF, Rheinmetall, and Volvo AB. Currently, he serves as Partner at Cevian Capital and EMERAM Capital Partners, as well as the Chairman of the Board at Bilfinger SE.
Eurobattery Minerals featured in German documentary
With the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have gone from globalisation to deglobalisation, geopolitical tensions and broken supply chains. This is highlighted in “Battle for the world – Germany and the globalisation”, a documentary film where Eurobattery Minerals is featured, alongside a range of important policymakers and stakeholders on a European and global level. The documentary has been produced by the German public-service television broadcaster ZDF – one of Europe´s biggest TV channels – and shows that there is a real risk that our future will be totally in the hands of autocratic states when it comes to raw materials. The documentation emphasises Eurobattery Minerals' role as a provider of responsibly mined battery minerals and the importance of the company for the Green Transition in the EU.
Recording of the documentary at the Hautalampi battery mineral project
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In this ZDF documentary, Roberto García Martínez shares screentime with, amongst many others, Ursula von der Leyen (President of the European Commission), Stormy-Annika Mildner (Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Germany), Dr. Peter Buchholz (Head of the German Mineral Resources Agency Deutsche Rohstoffagentur), Philipp Hildebrand (Vice President of BlackRock), Ralf Brandstätter (Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group / CEO VW Group China) and Sigmar Gabriel (Former Minister Foreign Affairs, Germany). Eurobattery Minerals is proud to be a part of a greener and more secure future.
The documentary film is available, so far only in German on ZDF, here: Kampf um die Welt: Deutschland und die Globalisierung – ZDFmediathek.
