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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Umicore has signed a long-term agreement with Finland-based Terrafame Ltd. for the supply of low-carbon, sustainable high-grade nickel sulfate. The company says that its nickel sulfate production capacity can fill the needs of around one million electric cars per year. Earlier post.)

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MAY 4, 2023

In accordance with its ambition to reach carbon-neutral production by 2035, Neste is working on a 120 MW electrolyzer project to produce renewable (i.e. green) hydrogen at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. In December 2022, Business Finland awarded Neste €27.7

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JULY 9, 2021

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A., a global supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, has joined the HiQ-CARB consortium to provide the lithium-ion battery industry with sustainable and high-performance carbon additives. Acetylene black is carbon black derived from acetylene gas.

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JUNE 22, 2021

The pilot plant has a direct reduction shaft, where the reduction takes place, and a number of electrolyzers for the production of hydrogen using fossil-free electricity. In a traditional process, this is done using carbon or coke, while in the HYBRIT process the reduction is done using fossil-free hydrogen.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The EU Innovation Fund will award a grant of €88 million to Neste’s green hydrogen and CO 2 capture & storage project, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the Porvoo refinery in Finland. The project introduces carbon capture and storage (CCS) and electrolysis solutions that allow decarbonization of production at the refinery.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Allianz Capital Partners, on behalf of Allianz insurance companies, has signed an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Ren-Gas Oy , a green hydrogen and power-to-gas project developer based in Finland. The main product of Ren-Gas’ plants is renewable synthetic methane, which is made from green hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A two-year Finnish electrofuels (E-fuel) research project aims to integrate hydrogen production through high-temperature electrolysis using a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) with carbon dioxide sequestration and Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis. million in funding from Business Finland in January.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä has been granted €1 million in funding by Business Finland, a state-run public agency for funding important research projects, to support research in the field of Power-to-X (P2X) technology.

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

Epsilon Advanced Materials, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Epsilon Carbon Private Limited, and Finnish Minerals Group have agreed to set up a framework for assessing the possibilities of establishing an anode material production plant in Vaasa, Finland. billion (€96 billion) by 2029, at a CAGR of 45.8%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Umicore last week inaugurated its carbon-neutral production facility for cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles in Nysa, Poland. With this gigafactory, Umicore is leading the way in battery materials in Europe offering key ingredients for a responsible and sustainable value chain for electric transport.

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. capture and liquefaction at a cement plant to storage in offshore sites.

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JULY 30, 2023

In November 2021, Finnish Minerals Group announced that it was negotiating with China-based Beijing Easpring Material Technology on the possibility to establish a cathode active materials (CAM) plant in Kotka, Finland. Finnish Materials Group owns 40% of that joint venture. The production capacity of the plant can be expanded in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2021

The reaction involves the formation of soluble lithium carbonate and mineral component analcime (NaAlSi 2 O 6 ·H 2 O) as the main components. In the second stage lithium carbonate is solubilized in a conversion reaction, producing lithium hydroxide solution and solid calcium carbonate, which will report together with other mineral residues.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Believed to be the world’s first two-seater electric racer, the car will be revealed at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland on 31 October. A customizable family of nickel-rich cathode materials, eLNO will meet specific battery performance requirements for individual electric vehicle platforms.

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JULY 24, 2022

For Umicore this investment represents the final step in establishing a global production presence with battery material value chains that are regionally fully integrated to support its customers in their fast transformation towards sustainable electric mobility.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group and Finland-based metals producer Terrafame have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the future supply of nickel sulfate. Renault Group is building an electric ecosystem in Northern France known as Renault ElectriCity.

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JULY 2, 2022

Keliber is a Finnish mining and battery chemical company which owns the Keliber project, an advanced lithium hydroxide project located in the Kaustinen region of Finland which intends to sustainably produce battery grade lithium hydroxide utilizing its own ore. Earlier post.). —Neal Froneman, CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater.

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JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale.

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JULY 22, 2021

To close the loop, production waste from the future Cellforce Group battery plant will be recycled at BASF’s prototype plant for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

The technology group Wärtsilä, and its collaborators WEC Energy Group, (WEC), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and Burns & McDonnell (B&McD), have been contracted to carry out hydrogen fuel testing at the A.J. Mihm power plant in Michigan. Measurements of the engine’s performance will be made throughout the testing.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2018

In countries with a large forestry sector, such as Finland or Sweden, there is a high potential for the production of SNG from waste wood. A synthesis gas consisting mainly of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide is produced by biomass gasification. Then, the hydrogen reacts with carbon dioxide to synthetic methane.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the University of Turku in Finland have developed a method to increase the conductivity of titanium dioxide nanotubes without changing their structure. Through carbonization, the titanium dioxide can be converted into a carbon-containing titanium oxycarbide compound.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Low-carbon fuels are the only sustainable solution to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from existing combustion engines around the world. Banning the combustion engine would close the door on sustainable drop-in solutions, such as fuels from green electricity and sustainable biomass.

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JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Hydrogen is used with recycled carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels, raw materials, and chemicals.

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MAY 28, 2019

With nuclear power facing an uncertain future in many countries, the world risks a steep decline in its use in advanced economies that could result in billions of tonnes of additional carbon emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. If other low-carbon sources—i.e.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

The plant, which will produce chemicals used in electric vehicle batteries (EVB), will be located at the company’s current industrial site in Sotkamo, Finland. Our production technology enables low carbon footprint of nickel and cobalt sulfates needed for electric vehicle batteries. Bioleaching.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The new business model will result in the creation of the only battery materials park on the continent, providing North American automakers with direct access to a secure domestic source of low-carbon raw materials. million electric vehicles per year. To better reflect the company’s vision, First Cobalt Corp.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

Carbon nanotube commutator. Researchers from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, have found that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators. Source: Rice University. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Neste is piloting its first electric vehicle charging service targeted to logistics companies in Finland. at their site in the Konala area in Helsinki, Finland. The pilot project supports Neste’s and Niemi’s climate strategies and helps Niemi, the leading moving and logistics company in Finland, to reduce its climate emissions.

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APRIL 25, 2018

grams (g) of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per kilometer more than in 2016. Registrations increased in all EU Member States except Finland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase—last year by 42%. g/km last year to 118.5g/km.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Preem’s objective is to produce three million cubic meters (793 million gallons US) of renewable fuel yearly by 2030, which would account for the bulk of the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in the Swedish transport sector. Vattenfall can provide hydrogen gas required for the production of drop-in biofuels.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The 57,565 GT M/S Viking Grace currently operates in the archipelago between Turku (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden), and is already one of the most environmentally-friendly cruise ferries in the global maritime industry. An electric drive system powered by the auxiliary grid in the vessel is used for rotation of the Rotor Sail.

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JUNE 21, 2021

At BASF’s manufacturing facilities for primary products of cathode materials in Harjavalta, Finland, and for cathode materials in Schwarzheide, Brandenburg, Germany, BASF will be able to produce battery materials with an industry-leading low carbon footprint from 2022. The battery cell is the combustion chamber of the future.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage. We only have pipes, valves, a fan, and an electric heating element.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Picture this: Workers clad in standard-issue workwear, step onto the factory floor involved in cell manufacturing for electric vehicles (EVs). Their every move—shuffling across the floor, reaching for components—accumulates static electricity.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. Earlier post.)

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JULY 8, 2015

Mika Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland): Resonate Award recipient for pioneering a CO 2 sequestration process that converts a low-value steel-manufacturing by-product into a valuable resource for industry. The Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability.

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