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The International Congress on Rare Metals, Materials and Technologies - RAREMET-2026

RAREMET-2026 continues the long-standing scientific tradition of rare metals conferences at GIREDMET and has grown into Russia’s leading international platform for dialogue on rare metals, advanced materials, and related technologies. The Congress brings together scientists, engineers, industry leaders, policymakers, and business representatives to discuss the scientific, technological, strategic, and global dimensions of rare-metal industry development. RAREMET 2026 will highlight cutting-edge research results, sector-defining trends, and emerging technological breakthroughs across the full value chain — from mineral resources and sustainable processing to high-purity compounds, advanced metallurgy, functional materials, and high-tech applications.

Organizer: GIREDMET State Scientific Research and Design Institute of Rare Metal Industry, JSC (ROSATOM)
Co‑organizer and general sponsor: Kirillitsa Group (Kirillitsa, JSC)

May 20-22, 2026, Moscow
Topics of the Congress
General and Global Areas of Focus
Scientific and Technical Areas of Focus*
  1. Global transformation of the rare and rare earth metals industry (Technological, geopolitical, and economic drivers shaping the development of the sector)
  2. Resilient supply chains and technological sovereignty (Building reliable value chains from raw materials to finished products, strengthening national capabilities)
  3. Strategic partnerships and international cooperation (International collaboration as a driver of industrial growth, sustainable development, and new joint initiatives)
  4. Rare metals markets and their role in the high-tech economy (The interrelation btw rare metals development and the needs of advanced industries)
  5. Technological and economic challenges of industrial development (Key barriers and opportunities across mining, metallurgical, chemical, and manufacturing segments)
  6. Environmental transformation and sustainable development (Reducing environmental impact, responsible processing, and resource efficiency)
  7. Circular economy and secondary resources (Recycling, processing of technogenic raw materials, electronic waste, and end-of-life products from green energy systems)
  8. Digitalization and artificial intelligence in the industry (Digital twins, process modeling, and AI-based tools for technology development)
  9. Advanced workforce development (Building the talent base required for research, engineering, and industrial development in the field of rare metals)
  10. G2G, B2B, and science–industry–government cooperation (Strengthening interaction among gov. bodies, businesses, and research organizations)
  • Mineral resources of rare and rare earth metals (Mineralogy and geochemistry of ores, resource assessment, and scientific support for exploration and development)
  • Mining, beneficiation, and primary processing of rare metal ores (Mining methods, ore preparation, beneficiation, concentration of valuable components, and integrated processing of primary mineral raw materials)
  • Technogenic raw materials and secondary resources (Characterization and processing of technogenic deposits, tailings, slags, industrial by-products, electronic waste, spent materials, and other secondary sources of rare and rare earth metals)
  • Rare metal mineral resources and sustainable processing technologies (Resource-efficient flowsheets, loss reduction, and environmentally responsible processing across the rare metals value chain)
  • Metallurgy of rare metals (Electrolytic, metallothermic, and refining technologies, deep purification, and production of high-purity metallic materials)
  • Alloys, master alloys, powders, and composites (Intermetallic, high-entropy, and functional alloys, composite materials, nanomaterials, and powder-based technologies)
  • Magnetic materials (Materials and technologies for permanent magnets based on Nd-Fe-B, Sm-Co, and next-generation solutions with reduced heavy rare earth content or without rare earths)
  • Light and scattered rare metals (Technologies for the production and purification of Li, Be, Rb, Cs, In, Ga, Sb, Ge, Re and materials base on these metals)
  • High-purity substances and precursors (Synthesis, refining, purity control, and stability of substances and precursors for ALD, CVD, and other advanced processes)
  • Chemistry of rare and rare earth metals, extractants, and sorbents (Compounds, reagents, and selective systems for extraction, separation, and purification of rare and rare earth elements)
  • Analytics, testing, certification, and standardization (Multi-element, isotopic, and trace analysis, analytical methods, reference materials, and qualification approaches)
  • Semiconductor materials and electronics (Si, Ge, III–V, II–VI, IV–IV, and IV–VI materials, as well as wide-bandgap semiconductors for power electronics and UV photonics)
  • Optical, luminescent, and magneto-optical materials (Materials for the UV, visible, and IR ranges, including photonic and optical components based on transition, scattered and rare earth elements)
  • Scintillation and detector materials (Materials for ionizing radiation detection in nuclear power, safety systems, and medicine)
  • Materials for spintronics (Ferromagnetic semiconductors, half-metallic oxides, Heusler alloys, and related materials)
  • Materials for energy storage and energy conversion (Materials for metal-ion batteries, thermoelectrics, and related devices)
  • Materials and technologies for hydrogen energy (Fuel cells, electrolyzers, membrane reactors, and related materials)
  • AI and digital technologies in materials science (In situ structure control, robotic synthesis, autonomous laboratories, and AI-driven materials design)
*Wider list of topics can be found in description of particular conferences
RAREMET:Minerals, RAREMET:Metallurgy, RAREMET:Chemistry and RAREMET:Functional
Greeting
Andrey Goliney
Director of the Chemical Technology Cluster JSC Rosatom Science - the managing organization of JSC Giredmet
Dear colleagues!

I invite you to participate in the International Congress on Rare Metals, Materials and Technologies RAREMET 2026, organized by
the Giredmet State Research and Design Institute of the Rare Metal Industry.

The RAREMET Congress 2026 is the successor to the series of scientific seminars "Sazhinsky Readings" and three international scientific and practical conferences, which addressed topical issues of industry development, identified prospects for its development and areas of application in related fields of domestic and foreign industry.

Nowadays, the RM and REM industry is undergoing a global transformation, requiring new approaches to the development of strategic partnerships and international cooperation in the development of "closed-loop" technologies — from mining, processing, extraction to final products.

The Congress is intended to become the largest platform for constructive dialogue of
fundamental and applied science, government authorities and the real sector of the economy on the most pressing issues of the rare earth industry in order to achieve the goals of sustainable development. The congress will be attended by leading experts from Russia, India, China, Egypt, Turkey and many other countries.

I hope you will actively participate in the Congress!
Konstantin V. Ivanovskikh
Deputy Director for Science and Innovation, Giredmet JSC
For us, each RAREMET conference is a meeting of friends and likeminded people, who nowadays create a new uncontested basis for the development of high-tech industries, where rare metals provide new unique properties of materials and, therefore, new areas for their application. We are lucky to witness and be part of a true booming point in research and development in this area. The upcoming congress will allow us to get insight into the current scientific research activities in a concentrated manner, highlight the main trends in the global markets of rare metals and critical technologies, as well as to outline the horizons of the forthcoming achievements which will shape the technological landscape of the future.
Andrey Andrianov
СEO Rusatom Metal Tech LLC
We are pleased to have the opportunity to participate in the RAREMET-2024. For us, this is one of the key platforms for consolidating scientific potential in the field of rare metals and discussing a wide range of scientific and technological tasks: from processing mineral raw materials containing rare, refractory, rare earth and dispersed metals to the development of new materials based on them.

Due to the unique existence of a unique industrial base of ChMZ JSC, as well as the experience of implementing such projects and successfully mastering new modern technologies, Rusatom Metal Tech LLC is a reliable supplier of products made of refractory and rare metals for the aerospace, petroleum and chemical, nuclear industry and mechanical engineering.

This year, Rusatom Metal Tech LLC will present products made of refractory and rare metals: tantalum, hafnium, niobium and zirconium at the conference as part of the exhibition exposition.
Сommittee membership
Alexander G. Mazhuga
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Science and Higher Education, Rector of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian State Technical University, Dr.Sci., Prof. of RAS;
Aslan Y. Tsivadze
Academician, Deputy President of RAS, Scientific Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society, Head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of A.N. Reformatsky Russian Technological Universety MIREA, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Dr. Sci., prof.;
Evgeniy V. Antipov
Dr.Sci., Corr. Member of the RAS, Head of the Dept. of Electrochemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Yuriy A. Olenin
Deputy Director General for Science and Strategy, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation
Andrey B. Shevchenko
Director of Technological Development, Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation
Pavel A. Zaitsev
CEO of JSC "Science and Innovation".
Anatoly M. Nikolayev
Corr. Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. of Technical Sciences, Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the IHTRAMS KSC RAS
Park Kyoung-Tae
Ph.D., Director of Korea Rare Metals Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Republic of Korea
Ashim Khaumdas
Ph D ( Enginering Sciences)
German Mongolian Institute for Resources and Technology, Mongolia
Ranjit Dutia
Director
Kalpesh Enterprise LLC, USA
Erzan Ishanov
Director
Sumitomo Corporation Central Eurasia, Japan
Ulmas Mirsaidov
Director of the Atomic Energy Agency under the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan
Vysetti Balaram
Dr., Fellow Geological Society India; member International Working Group, Indian Society Mass Spectrometry.
Emeritus Scientist at the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), India
Joydip Joardar
Ph.D., senior researcher, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI), (Dept. of Science & Technology, Government of India)
Mustafa Kidibaev
Dr.Sci., head of the laboratory, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Institute of Physics, Zheenbayeva NAN KR, Kyrgyzstan
Amol Nande
Ph.D., senior researcher, Guru Nanak College of Science, India
Qiufeng Shi
Ph.D., associate professor, College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology (Taiyuan, China), China
Evgeniy Frants
Director of Beryllium Production,
Ulba Metallurgical Plant JSC, Kazakhstan
Andrey Andrianov
СEO
Rusatom Metal Tech LLC
Foreign speakers
Quotes
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Contacts
Phone:
RareMetals@rosatom.ru
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JSC Giredmet named after N.P. Sazhin is the organizer of the International Congress on Rare Metals, Materials and Related Technologies "RAREMET 2026" (The International Congress on Rare Metals, Materials and Related Technologies – RAREMET 2026), which will be held in Moscow from May 20 to 22, 2026.

The RAREMET Congress 2026 is the successor to the series of scientific seminars "Sazhinsky Readings", organized at the GIREDMET Institute on the initiative of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1970 in memory of the founder of the Russian rare metal industry, academician N.P. Sazhin, and international RAREMET conferences, which were held in Moscow in 2021, 2022 and 2024.

Throughout its development period, the RAREMET discussion platform has become Russia's largest international integrator of scientists, technologists, government and business representatives for a comprehensive discussion of scientific, technological, suprasystem and global aspects of the development of the rare metals industry
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