MnI 2025 Annual Conference is scheduled from Tuesday, June 3 to Thursday, June 5 in Tokyo, Japan.
When registering to the IMnI conferences, make sure that you are covered by your company’s travel insurance during your trip and stay abroad.
IMnI 2025 Annual Conference – Save the date!
July 24, 2024
We are happy to confirm that the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) conference in 2025 will be held in Tokyo, from Monday, June 3 to Thursday, June 5, with optional technical visits to Manganese plants on Friday, June 6.
Registration will start soon. Save the date!
Alex Puissant
Alex Puissant, a Brussels journalist, is a prominent international conference facilitator. As a foreign correspondent, editor and news anchorman, he has ensured television news coverage, including live comments and interviews, from around Europe and the USA.
As an independent conference moderator, he has chaired hundreds of sessions and panel discussions with speakers as diverse as Vaclav Havel, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Gates. He has worked for global corporations and associations as well as European Union institutions and the United Nations Organization in New York.
Alex Puissant, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the City of New York, is the author of “The press, a voice on behalf of the citizen?” on social responsibility of the media, published on behalf of the King Baudouin Foundation.
Robert Ward
Robert Ward is Director of Geo-economics & Strategy and Japan Chair at The International Institute for Strategic Studies, one of the world’s leading authorities on global security, political risk and conflict.
Before joining the IISS in 2019, Robert was the Editorial Director at The Economist Intelligence Unit where he led the EIU’s country, industry and data analysis and forecasting teams. Robert joined the Economist Group in 1997.
After graduating from Cambridge University in 1989, Robert went to Japan where he lived and worked until 1996. Robert also studied in the Soviet Union in 1986.
Dr Doreen McGough
Dr Doreen McGough has over 20 years' work experience in the industry, 14 of which have been spent dealing solely with Manganese. She was HSE Director of the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) from 2009-2017, where she had the responsibility of enhancing industry’s understanding of the toxicological/ecotoxicological profile of many Manganese-based substances and the corresponding risks and benefits associated with their use.
As the Institute’s chief scientist, Dr McGough published over 10 peer-reviewed articles concerning Manganese. Alongside her work at the IMnI she worked for the Manganese REACH Administration (MARA) on lease as its main scientific advisor where she eventually became the Secretary General in 2017 to Present.
As the Secretary General of MARA, Doreen manages and works with over 10 health/safety and regulations consulting firms worldwide made of some 20 renowned scientists. Their work mainly focuses on supporting the metal industry towards smooth regulatory compliances. An Anglo-Cameroonian, Dr McGough holds a BSc in biology, an MSc in environmental pollution control, and a doctorate in environmental toxicology from the University of Nottingham (UK) where she began her career as a lecturer.
Companies that participated to the 2024 event in Oman:
AB Ferromax
African Rainbow Minerals
Afro Minerals Trading AG
Al Jood Natural Resources LLC
Ashbery Metals
Asia Minerals Limited
Assore International Holdings Ltd.
Autlán
AVEKS AS
Bastion Industries
Bihar Foundry and Casting Limited
Black Canyon Ltd
BloombergNEF
C. Steinweg Oman LLC
Carbon Partners AS
Carbon Resources Pvt. Ltd.
CCMA, LLC
Chongqing Bosai Minerals Group
Citibank
Citic Commodities Pte Ltd
CRU Group
DPRC S.L
Eramet
Estrella Resources Limited
Euroalliages aisbl
Felman Trading Europe AG
Ferroglobe
Full Comex Trading
German Mineral Resources Agency at BGR
Glencore India, New Delhi
Glencore International AG
Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR)
GoodEarth | GoodRock
Gunvor Group
Hanwa Co., Ltd.
Hascor International Group
Helvetia Resources
IMnI
Inner Mongolia Chayouqianqi Mengfa Ferroalloy Co., Ltd
IPM Commodities Pvt. Ltd.
JFE Mineral & Alloy Company Ltd.
JFE Shoji Corporation
Jindal Shadeed Iron & Steel LLC
Jupiter Mines Ltd.
Kalahari Minerals Marketing AG
Kimpe SAS
LPM s.r.l.
MAA Enterprises
Maharashtra Alloys
ManCor Group
Manganese Metal Company (Pty) Ltd
Manganese REACH Administration (MARA)
Maringá Ferro Liga S.A.
Marubeni Tetsugen Co., Ltd.
McCloskey by OPIS
McKinsey & Company
Metals Hub GmbH
Minmet S.A.M.
Mitra S.K. Private Limited
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
Morlexium Minerals & Metals Ltd
Mtalx Ltd.
Multitecnica Industrial
Musamu Resources Ltd.
Namo Shree
Nava Limited
Navratna Manganese Products LLP
NG Global Energy Solutions
Nippon Denko Co., Ltd.
Ntsimbintle Holdings Ltd.
Ntsimbintle Marketing and Trading Pte Ltd
OFZ, a.s.
OM Holdings Ltd.
Omni Industries B.V.
Ore & Metal Company Limited
Panasonic Energy Co., Ltd
PLR Projects Zambia Limited
Project Blue
Quintal S.A.
Rajadhiraj Tirupani Vinayak Natraj Pvt.Ltd
Ramnik Power and Alloys Pvt. Ltd.
Rand Merchant Bank
Ronly Ltd.
S&P Global
Sakura Ferroalloys
Sarda Metals & Alloys Ltd.
Satka Group
Shaanxi Sinian Metal & Mining Co.,Ltd
Shaanxi Sinian Metal & Mining Co.,Ltd
Shanghai Fengri International Trading Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Ju-Manganese International Trade Co.,Ltd
Sharp Ferro Alloys Ltd.
Shree Ramdoot Metloys Pvt. Ltd.
Shreenath Fine Chem (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Shri Kakshi Metals Pvt Ltd. (a Unit of Kakshi Group)
Shri Ram Metals (a Unit of Kakshi Group)
Shyam Ferro Alloys Limited
Shyam SEL and Power Limited
South32
South Manganese Group Ltd.
South Saharan Mining
Sumitomo Corporation
Sumitomo Corporation Africa (Pty) Ltd
Symbol International Fortune Group Pte. Ltd.
Tanaka Chemical Corporation
Temirtau Trading
TMC The Metals Company
Transalloys
Traxys Europe S.A.
Truleap DMCC
Tshipi e Ntle Manganese Mining
TZM Global LLC
Umicore
United Manganese of Kalahari (Pty) Ltd
Vamancore Pte. Ltd.
Vedika Metals Private Limited
Vibrantz
Vietnam New Resources Metallurgy Shareholding Co.
Westfesi Group
Wood Mackenzie
World Metals & Alloys (FZC)