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New investor Mingxin China Growth Fund joined previous backers including DAG Ventures in the oversubscribed round. The new funding round will support Oorja’s continued success supplying the OorjaPac to the material handling business. Earlier post.) million in 2011 to $1.3 The investment round follows a $4.2-million

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are launching a new rare earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains. Energy Fuels will produce its RE Carbonate from natural monazite sands supplied by US-based Chemours Company under a sales agreement between Energy Fuels and Chemours that was announced on 14 December 2020.

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Efforts to decarbonize steel production are central to the net-zero aspirations of China, Japan, Korea and the European Union. By 2050, green hydrogen could be the cheapest production method for steel and capture 31% of the market. China will continue to play a pivotal role. BAU is business-as-usual.

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SAIC Motor, China’s largest car maker, has set an ambitious target of producing and selling over 1 million vehicles along with its joint venture partner, JSW Group. De says the aim is to offer a high-tech, affordable portfolio of products for the Indian market. “We

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These efforts could also supply biofuel to ground and marine vehicles, saving about 1 million tons of CO 2 emissions per year on a life cycle basis across the transportation sector, the study found. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd., of Vancouver.

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In fact, China accounted for half of the worldwide growth of EV sales in 2021, and IEA writes that more EVs were purchased there in 2021 than in the entire rest of the world throughout 2020. Supply chain issues and delivery delays also disrupt EV sales in some regions, making it harder for consumers to take receive their new EVs.

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At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply. The outlook is developed by examining energy supply and demand trends in 100 countries, 15 demand sectors covering all manner of personal and business needs and 20 different energy types. Outlook for Energy.

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At the same time we want to permanently and sustainably strengthen our competitiveness with a high-performance organization ,” said Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain Management, during a media event at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant. —Markus Schäfer.

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Synergies with the acetyl business include shared customers, raw materials and the supply chain. In January, Celanese signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wison (China) Holding Co., a Chinese synthesis gas supplier, for the production of certain feedstocks used in the TCX process. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese.

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Recycling provided the only source of domestic supply for antimony, bismuth, chromium, germanium, tin, tungsten, and vanadium. China was the leading producing nation for 30 of the 50 critical minerals (including 14 lanthanides).

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The issue is further complicated by a slow market recovery in developed nations, but sustained growth in E7 economies which could lock economic growth into high carbon assets. Emerging markets’ previous trends on carbon emissions reductions linked to growth and productivity have stalled, and their total emissions grew by 7.4%.

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The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States. China is experiencing a great deal of change and growth, with a desire for better sustainability. That problem is really interesting in the context of both Detroit and Beijing, Zielinski observed.

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The energy transition requires a massive increase in the supply of critical materials, yet supply chains remain vulnerable to a range of geopolitical risks. Supply disruptions could impact the speed of the energy transition in the short to medium term, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) warns.

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Despite current deficits, the United States cannot afford to forego the long-term investments that will improve its competitiveness in this multi-trillion-dollar market and its national security, while reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental hazards. billion, a 92% increase over the FY 2009 appropriations.

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As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. At this time, the loss of supply from these closures amounted to more than 1% of the total mine supply in 2019. —Gulley et al.

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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China Molybdenum (CMOC) , a leading cobalt and copper producer, recently started trial production from its 10k expansion project at the Tenke Fungurume Mine (TFM) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). TFM mainly produces copper cathode and cobalt hydroxide. In 2020, TFM produced 182,597 tonnes of copper and 15,436 tonnes of cobalt.

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An executive from Ford said recently that automakers might feel compelled to invest directly in cobalt production over fears of securing adequate supply. “I In turn, this shift may lead to soaring demand for nickel, creating another supply squeeze as mine expansion plans are limited,” BofAML analysts wrote in their report.

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President Trump’s trade war with China, which is still in its early stages, has already battered the yuan. As the Fed tightens rates and pushes up the dollar, emerging market currencies suffer from sudden shocks, sometimes severe. As capital flees some of these emerging markets and flows into safe haven assets, such as the U.S.

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China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. China, using largely coal-based electricity, had 6 million EVs in 2021, constituting the largest total stock of EVs in the world. But coal use varies, even within China.

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