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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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Q&A with Jon Jacobs of Westwater Resources Everyone in the EV industry is talking about the IRA and the BIL, two sets of federal regulations that include strong incentives for automakers to establish domestic supply chains for EV raw materials and components. It’s amazing what the IRA is driving in terms of new companies and investment.

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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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billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. This US-owned and operated manufacturing plant in northern Alabama will be the first of its size in North America.

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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. Merkle said the timing for a new hardwood hybrid lines up with an uptick in prices for hardwood timber.

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Mercedes-Benz prepares car production network for new electric portfolio

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—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Production and Supply Chain. Battery systems will be supplied by the global Mercedes-Benz battery production network. BBAC) has been producing Mercedes-Benz vehicles locally for the Chinese market since 2005. Beijing Benz Automotive Co.

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