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Elcora awarded NSERC-ENGAGE grant to support development of graphene supercapacitors

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between 2016 and 2022. As part of the vertical integration strategy Elcora is securing high-grade graphite and graphene precursor graphite from operations in Sri Lanka and other countries which are already in production. Andreas has worked on carbon-based supercapacitors (SCs) for more than 14 years.

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

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Oxford Dictionaries recently selected “post-truth” as 2016’s international word of the year, defining it as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less in influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”. Sri Lanka, São Paulo and the US were devastated by floods this year.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has Major Implications for Automotive Sector

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The container ship Dali that collided with the bridge was on its way out of the Port of Baltimore, en route to Colombo, Sri Lanka when it collided with one of the large pillars. The Singapore-flagged Dali had previously collided with a dock at Port of Antwerp in 2016.

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