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Li-Cycle opens its fourth Li-ion battery Spoke recycling facility in Alabama

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Li-Cycle has started commercial operations in its Alabama Spoke located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Li-Cycle’s fourth Spoke recycling facility in North America has capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries per year.

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Li-Cycle starts operations at its first European lithium-ion battery recycling facility

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Li-Cycle Holdings announced the start of commercial operations at its first Spoke recycling facility in Europe, located in Magdeburg, Germany. Each main line has the capacity to process up to 10,000 tonnes of lithium-ion battery material per year.

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Alabama Will Get A Li-Cycle Battery Recycling Facility

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Li-Cycle has announced plans to build a new lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Alabama. This will be its fourth commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility and will be located in Tuscaloosa, AL. Previously, the company had a base plan for three North American facilities, or Spokes.

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Daikin to begin producing Li-ion electrolytes

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will soon start producing electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries, initially at its Daikin America plant in Alabama, and begin selling them in January. The Alabama plant will have an annual production capacity of around 2,000 tons. Japan-based Daikin Industries Ltd.

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Alabama Graphite reports high-performance Si-enhanced coated spherical purified graphite (Si-CSPG) for LIBs

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Alabama Graphite Corp. AGC) reported positive electrochemical results from downstream lithium-ion battery tests recently performed on its silicon-oxide-enhanced coated spherical purified graphite ("Si-CSPG") produced from the AGC’s ultra-high-purity 99.999 wt% C natural flake graphite. Li-ion Battery Anode Graphite.

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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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Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. Li 2 O spodumene concentrate. Materials Separation & Processing (Cathode Minerals).

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Area of Interest (AOI) 01a: Lithium Ion Batteries using Silicon-based Anodes-Research. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. AOI 01b: Lithium Ion Batteries using Silicon-based Anodes-Research, Development, and Validation. University of Alabama. Project description.