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

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The pilot plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill in Finland. This investment is another step on our transformation journey to explore new ways to replace fossil-based, scarce and high-cost materials with renewable alternatives. Stora Enso has been producing lignin industrially at its Sunila Mill in Finland since 2015.

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VTT and Neste to build integrated Power-to-Liquids demo facility; CO2 capture, green hydrogen and e-fuels production

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Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale. Development of high-temperature electrolysis, CO 2 capture, and hydrocarbon synthesis technologies have been completed in a Business Finland-funded Veturi E-fuel research project; the integrated technology is now ready for implementation.

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FREYR Battery awarded $3B, 31 GWh inaugural offtake agreement with leading global ESS provider

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This development advances us towards a final investment decision, the start of construction on our initial Gigafactories, and industrial-scale commercialization of FREYR’s clean battery cells. Announcing our first significant offtake agreement is a major milestone. —Tom Jensen, the CEO of FREYR.

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Stora Enso’s pilot plant for producing lignin-based carbon materials for batteries now operational

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With Lignode, we can provide a bio-based, cost-competitive and high-performance material to replace the conventionally used graphite. To serve the fast-growing anode materials market, we are now exploring strategic partnerships to accelerate scale-up and commercialization in Europe.

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Tesla launches its 2nd-cheapest, longest-range Model Y in select European countries

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Introducing Model Y LR RWD Maximum range that allows you to commute all week without charging—at an even more accessible price Specs below – 600 km (WLTP) when equipped with 19" Gemini Wheels – 217 km/h top speed – Lowest cost per kilometer in the electric SUV market (14.9…

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Sekab and Dyadic verify commercial scale performance of new enzyme mix to breakdown cellulose

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SEKAB has the expertise required to show if the results that we have seen on a lab scale also works on a larger (commercial) scale. The aims of the DISCO project are to develop more efficient and cost-effective enzyme tools to produce bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, and understand how these enzymes work.

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Compact pilot plant for solar to liquid fuels production

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Partners from Germany and Finland in the SOLETAIR project are building a compact pilot plant for the production of gasoline, diesel and kerosene from solar energy, regenerative hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A direct air capture unit developed by the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) extracts carbon dioxide from air.

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