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Mangrove raises $3M from BDC Capital to accelerate deployment of battery-grade lithium processing systems

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Canada-based Mangrove Lithium closed a $3-million financing from BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice. Mangrove is the developer of a modular platform for the cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. Lithium processing is presently concentrated in a small number of regions in the world.

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Ceramatec licensing molten sodium technology for heavy oil upgrading; removing the need for diluent for bitumen

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Flowchart of Molten Sodium Upgrading process. The technology, developed by Ceramatec and managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), has been licensed to Western Hydrogen of Calgary for upgrading bitumen or heavy oil from Canada. Source: Field Upgrading. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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First Cobalt announces positive feasibility results for Canadian cobalt refinery expansion; first NA producer of battery-grade cobalt sulfate

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announced positive results from an independent feasibility study conducted on its permitted cobalt refinery in Ontario, Canada. Initial capital estimate of $56 million and an operating cost estimate of $2.72/lb Operating Costs. Sodium Treatment. Total Unit Operating Costs. Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc.

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SDTC awards Canada Lithium up to $6.5M for lithium metal pilot plant

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Canada Lithium Corp. million from the Government of Canada through Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). The technology being developed in this project has the potential to reduce total EV battery costs, thereby increasing the rate of EV up-take. has been selected to receive a grant of up to $6.5

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Hyundai Motor and Kia collaborate with Next Hydrogen to develop advanced alkaline water electrolysis system

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Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Next Hydrogen Corporation, a specialist in water electrolysis technology and a subsidiary of Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc., to bolster their efforts to usher in a global hydrogen society through cost-effective production of clean hydrogen.

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Successful performance test of natural Albany graphite versus synthetic graphite in a Ballard fuel cell stack; potential cost reduction

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From an environmental and cost advantage, the Ballard report also concluded: Zenyatta graphite provides a clean carbon option for fuel cell components (i.e. If Zenyatta’s hydrothermal graphite can also be low cost compared to existing synthetic graphite, it will facilitate fuel cell cost reduction and market penetration.

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Ballard conditionally awarded C$7M by SDTC for fuel cell distributed power generation

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million) by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to extend the operating life and lower the product cost of FCgen(TM)-1300, the fuel cell power plant that powers Ballard’s CLEARgen distributed generation system. Ballard Power Systems has been conditionally awarded up to C$7 million (US$7.2

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