Charged EVs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The few companies that have access to graphite mines in North America are the belles of the EV ball at the moment. Westwater holds mineral rights to the Coosa graphite deposit, which is located across 42,000 acres in Alabama. The company is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This US-owned and operated manufacturing plant in northern Alabama will be the first of its size in North America. NAM will deploy its advanced, cost effective and environmentally friendly process technology to provide a ~60% reduction in carbon intensity relative to the traditional Chinese synthetic graphite.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have crossed American sweetgums with their Chinese cousins, creating hybrid sweetgum trees that have a better growth rate and denser wood than natives, and can produce fiber year-round. But sweetgums—including hybrids—have already adapted to grow in the region in a variety of sites.

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