United States and India launch Critical Minerals Security Task Force
The US-India Critical Minerals Security Taskforce just kicked off a new Critical Minerals Security Task Force to help secure the materials needed for clean energy and high-tech manufacturing.
This comes right after India and the US signed a key minerals partnership in late May.
At their first meeting on June 4, 17 leading companies from India and American got together to talk about teaming up on mineral processing, technology innovation, and investments.
Task force prioritizes lithium, rare-earth processing
The group is focusing on big areas like lithium refining, rare-earth processing, battery recycling, and making synthetic graphite, basically all the stuff that powers batteries and green technology.
They're building their plan around four main pillars: keeping supply chains safe, boosting technology, encouraging investment, and updating policies.
As the U.S.-India Business Council's Rahul Sharma put it, this partnership is all about combining India's industrial strengths with US innovation to build stronger supply chains for the future.