Browsing: Battery Materials

Umicore and Fraunhofer IPA are leading a new research project aimed at developing automated methods for safely disassembling and selectively…

Electra Battery Materials has signed a binding investment agreement with the Canada government to support development of a battery-grade cobalt…

CATL has appointed Chen Jinghe as a senior adviser for its mining business, as the company seeks to reinforce its…

Dutch commodities trader Trafigura has signed a binding offtake agreement with Smackover Lithium to purchase battery-grade lithium carbonate from the…

Rock Tech Lithium plans to use its lithium converter project in Guben as a model for a similar facility in…

SK On and POSCO have signed a lithium supply agreement running through 2028, covering up to 25,000 tonnes of lithium…

Rio Tinto has taken majority control of Canadian producer Nemaska Lithium, aiming to develop a fully integrated lithium supply chain…

U.S. chemical company Albemarle has shut down the last operating production line at its lithium hydroxide plant in Kemerton, Western…

The French government will invest €50 million in a proposed lithium mining project in central France, underscoring growing efforts to…

Finnish mining company Keliber has begun lithium extraction at its Syväjärvi open-pit mine in western Finland, marking a key step…

Gotion High-Tech has signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with German chemical group BASF to jointly develop next-generation solid-state battery technology,…

German battery materials specialist IBU-tec and research partners including TU Braunschweig have developed an industrial-scale concept for dry coating lithium-ion…

Portuguese lithium developer Lifthium Energy has secured €180 million in state funding to support the construction of a lithium refinery…

A circular economy approach to electric vehicle batteries could help avert looming shortages of critical minerals and curb sharp price…

Britain must move quickly to secure new battery manufacturing investment or risk losing its competitive position in the global automotive…

Ningbo Ronbay New Energy Technology said it is under investigation by China’s securities regulator following scrutiny of a recent major…

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL), the world’s largest power battery manufacturer, has secured a long-term supply of lithium iron…

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said they have developed a new materials design approach…

Solid-state batteries could move closer to commercial use after researchers at Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) presented a new production…

Materia AI said it has received UK government grant funding to support the development of an artificial intelligence platform aimed…