JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In a year where change is proving to be rapid and consequential, the major upcoming Shanghai Platinum Week is bound to connect key trends across the platinum group metals (PGMs) value chain as it has done progressively since 2021.
This year’s Shanghai Platinum Week in Suzhou from July 6 to 10 will take place against the background of previous platinum weeks having given rise to the fruitful creation the Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX) for platinum and palladium futures in late 2025.
What is also beneficial is that it comes at a pivotal moment for China’s PGMs market, the world’s largest consumer of these metals that are overwhelmingly hosted by South Africa, which achieved 120.3% higher sales of South Africa’s PGMs in the three months to April 30.
Based upon its recent 15th Five-Year Plan, China is accelerating structural shifts across AI, new energy, environmental protection, and carbon reduction and PGMs underpinning these national priorities are being reinforced as critical and strategic.
For anyone participating in the global PGMs ecosystem, Shanghai Platinum Week, an annual conference and exhibition dedicated to PGMs, offers unparalleled insight into China’s direction of travel and access to the decision-makers shaping it, World Platinum Investment Council’s (WPIC’s) 60 Seconds In Platinum media release to Mining Weekly points out.
