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Tirupati Graphite to acquire strategic Mozambique graphite projects from Battery Minerals

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The project’s graphite product basket is a mix of jumbo, large and small flake, complementing Tirupati’s existing mix of predominantly jumbo and large flake graphite products from Madagascar. The new acquisition will complement Tirupati’s two primary graphite projects in Madagascar. Background.

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Topsoe launches TITAN steam reforming catalyst series with boosted reliability and efficiency

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and a hexagonal crystal structure found in high-grade metamorphic rocks on Madagascar. Sudden pressure drop build-ups in syngas plants can cause unscheduled downtime and cost millions of dollars. The TITAN series offers improved performance and longer catalyst lifetime due to their hibonite-rich composition.

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Video Friday: ARTEMIS

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RoboCup ] WeRobotics is coordinating critical cargo drone logistics in Madagascar with Aerial Metric, Madagascar Flying Labs and PSI. Realistic sensor models, pre-trained neural networks, and extensible autonomy building blocks accelerate the training of aerial agents.

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Video Friday: Ameca Humanoid

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ETH Zurich ] Cassie Blue autonomously navigates on the second floor of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. MBZIRC ] Madagascar Flying Labs and WeRobotics are using cargo drones to deliver essential medicines to very remote communities in northern Madagascar. metre-tall green architectural sculpture. [

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. A few cables connect Indian Ocean islands—such as Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, and the Seychelles—to the African mainland. The gaps aren’t completely empty.

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Tesla supplier sheds light on graphite supply challenge for EV battery manufacturers [Editorial]

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Russia, Madagascar, Ukraine, Norway, Canada, India, and Sri Lanka make up the remaining Top 10 countries that produce graphite. “A US automaker continued building a large plant to manufacture lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries. After China, Brazil and Mozambique are the next largest graphite producers.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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This crystalline carbon allotrope is good for more than just pencils—it’s found in every EV battery anode, and producing graphite in the forms needed to build high-performance battery cells is a complex and exacting process. But now the industry is saying, look, we’re not going to build multi-billion-dollar plants on speculation.

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