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Westwater Resources is building a facility in Alabama to process one of the largest graphite deposits in the US

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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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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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This US-owned and operated manufacturing plant in northern Alabama will be the first of its size in North America. This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today.

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New hybrid sweetgum trees could boost paper, bioenergy production

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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. The new hybrid varieties are already being sold commercially by ArborGen Inc.,

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