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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. Blastr’s project—the green steel plant together with the integrated hydrogen facility—will be among the largest industrial investments in Finland.

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Business Finland awards €27.7M to Neste for Porvoo refinery green hydrogen projects

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Business Finland awarded Neste with a public funding of €27.7 million for green hydrogen projects at Neste’s refinery in Porvoo, Finland, aiming to develop solutions for renewable hydrogen production. In Finland, the EU application process has been coordinated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and Business Finland.

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Researchers at the U of Eastern Finland develop self-standing mesoporous Si film anode for Li-ion batteries

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Battery researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed a self-standing mesoporous silicon (Si) film anode for lithium-ion batteries. This film electrode does not need carbon additives and binders to connect particles as do typical slurry-based electrodes, but it still exhibits excellent battery performance.

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Stellantis and Terrafame agree on low-carbon nickel sulfate supply for EV batteries

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Beginning in 2025, Finland-based Terrafame will supply Stellantis with nickel sulfate over the five-year term of the agreement. Terrafame operates one of the world’s largest battery chemicals plants for EV batteries in Finland; the plant is capable of producing nickel sulfate for around 1 million electric cars per year. Stellantis N.V.

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Neste providing companies in Finland a service for monitoring transport fuel emissions

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Neste is the first company in Finland to provide a service for companies and other organizations to monitor their climate emissions caused by the use of transport fuels. Road transport accounts for more than 90% of the total transport emissions in Finland. —Heidi Peltonen.

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Finnish Minerals Group and FREYR to work together to establish battery cell production in Finland

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Finnish Minerals Group and Norway-based FREYR Battery have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue co-operation in implementing a battery cell investment in Finland. One of Finnish Minerals Group’s strategic objectives is to create a sustainable battery value chain in Finland.

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Stora Enso building €10M pilot plant to produce hard carbon from lignin; electrode materials

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Stora Enso is investing €10 million to build a pilot facility for producing bio-based carbon materials based on lignin. Wood-based carbon can be utilized as a crucial component in batteries typically used in consumer electronics, the automotive industry and large-scale energy storage systems.

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