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GM and Glencore enter multi-year cobalt supply agreement

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Glencore and General Motors announced a multi-year sourcing agreement in which Glencore will supply GM with cobalt from its Murrin Murrin operation in Australia. Lithium with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to secure lithium produced by the first stage of its Hell’s Kitchen Project in California.

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GM and MP Materials enter long-term supply agreement to scale rare earth magnet sourcing and production in US

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General Motors and MP Materials ( earlier post ) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated US supply chain for rare earth magnets. This strategic collaboration seeks to accelerate the restoration of the US rare earth supply chain at commercial scale with high resiliency and environmental sustainability.

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GM and POSCO Chemical to process cathode active material at new $400M joint venture plant in Québec

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The site’s construction will allow for future expansion opportunities as GM continues to pursue many potential future EV supply chain projects. —Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain. —Scott Bell, president and managing director, GM Canada.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation

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MP Materials is in the enviable position of having a mine and processing facility already up and running in California, and it has big ambitions. What’s more, the company is developing a facility in Fort Worth, Texas where it plans to manufacture alloys and magnets from Mountain Pass materials.

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MP Materials has an ambitious US rare earth supply chain strategy to fuel EV innovation – Charged EVs

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MP Materials is in the enviable position of having a mine and processing facility already up and running in California, and it has big ambitions. What’s more, the company is developing a facility in Fort Worth, Texas where it plans to manufacture alloys and magnets from Mountain Pass materials.

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BrightDrop Zevo electric vans rolling out in Ryder fleets

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Commonly known as “Ryder,” the company specializes in fleet, supply chain, and transportation management. Electric vans will be added to Ryder’s California, Texas, and New York facilities. Ryder System, Inc. is an American transportation and logistics company best known for its fleet of commercial rental trucks.

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Aventine sends first unit-train shipment of ethanol from Nebraska to Alabama

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It’s a major milestone in executing unit trains out of Aurora, eliminating obsolete single-car switching and moving Aventine assets into the highly efficient unit-train supply chain mode. With unit-train capacity, Beemer noted, Aventine is looking to open other new 100-car unit train markets, including Watson, California; Chicago and East St.

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