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Finnish Minerals Group & FREYR Battery collaborate to develop LFP cathode materials plant in Finland

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Finnish Minerals Group, a mining and battery industry development and investment company, and FREYR Battery will cooperate to assess the feasibility of establishing an LFP cathode material plant in the city of Vaasa. The EIA procedure will be based on two capacity alternatives: 20,000 and 60,000 tonnes per year. Sokli mining project.

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Stora Enso building €10M pilot plant to produce hard carbon from lignin; electrode materials

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Wood-based carbon can be utilized as a crucial component in batteries typically used in consumer electronics, the automotive industry and large-scale energy storage systems. The pilot plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill in Finland.

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Finnish Minerals Group and Beijing Easpring cathode materials plant proceeding as planned

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Finnish Minerals Group and Beijing Easpring Material Technology have been investigating and negotiating the possibility to establish a cathode active materials (CAM) plant in Kotka, Finland with an initial capacity of 50,000 t/a and potential for future expansion for the production of cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries.

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FREYR Battery awarded $3B, 31 GWh inaugural offtake agreement with leading global ESS provider

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FREYR Battery, a developer of clean, next-generation battery cell production capacity, has executed its inaugural offtake agreement for at least 31 GWh of low-carbon battery cells with an undisclosed, leading global publicly listed manufacturer and provider of energy storage systems (ESS). —Tom Jensen, the CEO of FREYR.

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Stora Enso’s pilot plant for producing lignin-based carbon materials for batteries now operational

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Applications include electric vehicles and consumer electronics as well as large-scale energy storage systems. Since sustainability is becoming a top priority for the automotive industry, car manufacturers and battery producers are focusing heavily on reducing carbon emissions in electric cars. Stora Enso Lignode carbon powder.

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FREYR Battery awarded €100M EU Innovation Fund grant

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FREYR has commenced building the first of its planned factories in Mo i Rana, Norway and announced potential development of industrial scale battery cell production in the United States and Vaasa, Finland. The projected emissions mitigation corresponds to almost twice the total amount of CO 2 emitted in Norway annually.

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Stora Enso and Northvolt partner to develop anode material from wood

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The aim is to develop the world’s first industrialized battery featuring anode sourced entirely from European raw materials, lowering both the carbon footprint and the cost. The Group is also evaluating its first industrial production of Lignode at the Sunila site through a feasibility study.

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