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Umicore opens solid-state battery material prototyping facility in Belgium

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Umicore inaugurated one of the world’s largest and most advanced solid-state battery material prototyping facilities in Olen, Belgium, which will expand and accelerate its innovation and technology development. Conducting R&D inside such dry conditions allows Umicore to optimize and conserve its resources.

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, IVECO and ENGIE collaborating to promote natural gas in Europe starting from Belgium

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), IVECO (a brand of CNH Industrial) and ENGIE (Global Energy Player) are broadly collaborating to promote natural gas vehicles and infrastructure in Europe. At the “Salon de l’Auto” in Brussels, the Minister of Mobility and Environment announced a program for the improvement of air quality in Wallonia.

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Cummins & Sinopec launch JV to produce and promote green hydrogen technologies in China

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Green hydrogen is the ultimate technology of the hydrogen energy industry in the future. We will use Sinopec’s current industry resources and lay out the green hydrogen industry chain to achieve greater progress. As a pioneer of the hydrogen economy, it has a mature hydrogen energy industry chain.

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Australia forecasts lithium export earnings of $16B in 2022-23, up from $5B in 2021-22

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Australia’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources released the December 2022 edition of the Resources and Energy Quarterly (REQ). This will make lithium Australia’s sixth-largest resource and energy commodity export. —“Resources and Energy Quarterly”. million tonnes in 2023–24 from 2.3

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OCSiAl receives approval for €300M Luxembourg graphene nanotube production plant and R&D center

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Its strategic location between Belgium, France and Germany will allow us to reduce logistics costs and work closely with leading automakers, the largest chemical producers and large tire manufacturers across Europe. —Konstantin Notman, Chief Executive Officer of OCSiAl Group.

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Ørsted proposes to develop one of the world’s largest renewable hydrogen plants: SeaH2Land

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Ørsted, the world’s leading offshore wind developer, together with the major industrial companies in the North Sea Port cluster, have launched the SeaH2Land vision for a gigawatt scale project to reduce carbon emissions in the Dutch-Flemish industrial cluster with renewable hydrogen.

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Researchers combine plasma-assisted nitrogen oxidation and lean NOx trap technology for ammonia production

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A team from KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp in Belgium has developed a new process that is suitable for the distributed, small-scale production of “green” ammonia. It is an essential fertilizer in agriculture and a crucial building block in chemical and pharmaceutical industries. 150 million tons annually.