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

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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. The pilot plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Sunila Mill in Finland. Stora Enso has been producing lignin industrially at its Sunila Mill in Finland since 2015.

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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. —Tom Jensen.

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

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Since sustainability is becoming a top priority for the automotive industry, car manufacturers and battery producers are focusing heavily on reducing carbon emissions in electric cars. With Lignode, we can provide a bio-based, cost-competitive and high-performance material to replace the conventionally used graphite.

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Johnson Matthey to exit battery materials business; increased commoditization, lower returns

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Johnson Matthey (JM) has been working to commercialize its eLNO range of high-nickel cathode materials ( earlier post ), principally for the automotive industry. The first facility in Poland is under construction and is to be completed in 2022, for commercial production in 2024. A second eLNO plant is also planned in Finland.

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EU investing €1.8B in 17 large-scale clean tech projects

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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. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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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 enzyme industry is growing rapidly, partly because of the increasing demand for lignocellulosic biofuels and we work continuously to offer new, more efficient products at lower prices.

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European Commission approves up to €5.4B of public support for IPCEI Hy2Tech; 41 hydrogen projects

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The European Commission approved , under EU State aid rules, an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) to support research and innovation and first industrial deployment in the hydrogen technology value chain. Aid to individual companies is limited to what is necessary, proportionate and does not unduly distort competition.

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