November 16-17, 2026, Gucheng, Xiangyang, Hubei.

Yifu Intelligent Hubei New Industrial Park is about to open, and the forum's vision extends from "front-end powder technology" to the "European industrial rules field". When the EU battery law enters the payment period, the Carbon Border Mechanism (CBAM) is tightened, and local content and recycling ratios are reviewed one by one, European new energy is no longer a "high premium market" but a hard scenario where "compliance is the threshold and localization is the pass."

In this round of "Europe's Reconstruction of Battery Sovereignty", we invited a business operator who is deeply involved in the legal industrial technology system - Axens Group Business Manager Zhang Yifu. Axens was born out of the French IFP Group. It is a European technology giant that has crossed over from refining catalysis and inorganic chemical processes to battery cathode materials and recycling. Zhang Yifu has officially confirmed to attend this forum and the moving celebration of Yifu Intelligent Hubei New Industrial Park, and will give a keynote report"European New Energy Market Current Situation and Related Policies". From the MACARON cathode factory to the bottom line of battery law compliance, he will explain clearly "what kind of Chinese chain does Europe welcome?"

Translate the "French industrial technology language" into a business bridge that Chinese enterprises can implement

Zhang Yifu is currently the business manager of Axens Group, and has long-term connection between Chinese new energy enterprises and European battery value chain projects. Axens is headquartered in France and is a core industrial technology company under the IFP Group. It has more than 3,000 licensed devices worldwide and an annual output of thousands of tons of catalysts and adsorbents. In recent years, it has systematically expanded its inorganic chemistry and process amplification capabilities over more than 70 years into the battery track: promoting the MACARON cathode active material (CAM) project in Saint-Salf in northern France, collaborating with Eurecat for black powder recycling, and establishing Argylium with Syensqo and IFPEN. Research on sulfide solid electrolytes.

What he faces is not a "buyer's market", but a set of complex rules: the EU battery law requires a 2027 EU/UK origin ratio threshold for cell value, a hard target for lithium, nickel and cobalt recycling and re-doping ratio from 2031; France's C3IV green industry tax credit, Net Zero strategic project label, local low-carbon electricity and river logistics preferences. Zhang Yifu's job is to translate these policy variables into business actions - which links must be built locally, which technology packages can be authorized, and how to connect the front-end process data with European audits. He is not someone who talks about the general situation of Europe, but someone who pushes "Chinese companies entering Europe" from PPT to the due diligence site.

In-depth echo with the theme of the forum "New Energy and New Materials"

Zhang Yifu's report"European New Energy Market Current Situation and Related Policies" just brings the main axis of this forum "New Materials - New Equipment - New Globalization" to the hardest regulatory continent:

Market level - European tram registrations continue to climb. The EU battery demand will exceed 730GWh before 2030, but local CAM production capacity is seriously insufficient, and cathodes, recycling, and electrolytes are all short of "industrial-grade supply"; at the same time, under the "risk-reduction" narrative, pure exports will be stuck by countervailing subsidies, carbon footprints, and DPP digital passports.

Policy layer - EU battery law runs through the entire cycle of design, raw materials, production and recycling; carbon border regulation, local content, recycling ratio, and low-carbon electricity certification form a "non-tariff barrier matrix"; the British ZEV mandate and the British and European rules of origin are simultaneously increasing pressure.

At the industrial level - what Europe wants is not the translation of China's production capacity, but "technical cooperation + local manufacturing + closed loop": Axens uses process packages + catalyst logic to do CAM, which is exactly the European answer - turning materials into auditable, traceable and renewable industrial assets.

For material factories, it answers "which section of the cathode should be left overseas when going overseas?"; for equipment factories, it reminds the equipment to have a full data link on energy consumption, particle size, and metal foreign matter; for Yifu, it means that when the sanding and dispersion system is output, the carbon footprint and batch traceability interface must be preset. The bottom layer of European opportunities is "Chinese efficiency" packed into a "European compliance shell."

In the golden autumn of November, Gucheng’s new garden opens

From November 16th to 17th, the new park and forum opened simultaneously in Gucheng, Xiangyang, Hubei. It is recommended that all friends who are engaged in cathode materials, battery recycling, solid electrolytes, European factory construction and carbon compliance reserve their seats: listen to Zhang Yifu from the front line of Axens business, clearly explaining "the current real water level and policy minefield of new energy in Europe"; also see how Yifu's new production line uses an auditable process base to catch the localization pace of Chinese companies entering Europe. Relocation is not a ribbon-cutting, but a front-line player like Yifu and Axens who span the legal industrial system and work together to bring the Chinese battery chain into the European main rules.

Gucheng, see you there!

2026 New Energy and New Materials Industry Development Forum and Yifu Intelligent Hubei New Industrial Park Moving Celebration

Time:November 16-17, 2026 | Location: Gucheng, Xiangyang, Hubei, China

Speaker:Zhang Yifu (Business Manager of Axens Group)

Speech Topic:"European New Energy Market Current Situation and Related Policies"

Sponsor:Yifu Intelligent

Co-organizer:Shanghai Nonferrous Network

Co-organizer:Central South University

Support:Gucheng County People's Government