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DOE closes $102.1M loan to Syrah Technologies to expand production of graphite-based active anode material

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The loan will help finance the construction of the Syrah Vidalia Facility. With this expanded production capacity, the Syrah Vidalia Facility is expected to produce enough natural graphite-based AAM to support approximately 2.5 Vidalia Battery Anode Material Project Site Overview. million EVs by 2040.

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Syrah Resources signs binding offtake agreement with Tesla for natural graphite active anode material

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Australia-based Syrah Resources Limited signed a binding offtake agreement with Tesla to supply natural graphite Active Anode Material (AAM) from its vertically integrated AAM production facility in Vidalia, Louisiana. Balama mine operation in Mozambique. Vidalia battery anode material project site.

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UTM Offshore signs FEED agreement for Nigeria’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility

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The FLNG facility will have a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) nameplate production capacity of 1.2 The penetration of FNLG in Africa, which started in Cameroon and expanded to Angola and Mozambique and now to Senegal, Mauritania and Nigeria, highlights Africa’s commitment to unlocking the full exploitation of its gas resources.

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DOE awarding $1.6B to 11 battery materials separation and processing projects as part of $2.8B funding

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This project will expand Anovion’s existing manufacturing capacity in Sanborn, NY—notably the only qualified US source of battery-grade synthetic graphite commercially shipping product today. This project (“Phase 3 Expansion”) will expand the production capacity of the Vidalia AAM facility from 11,250tpa to at least 45,000tpa AAM.

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Tesla supplier sheds light on graphite supply challenge for EV battery manufacturers [Editorial]

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Syrah Resources is an Australian company that supplies Tesla from its mine in Mozambique, one of the largest graphite producers. . Only a handful of countries mine graphite and even fewer refine the mineral enough to be used in batteries and other products. After China, Brazil and Mozambique are the next largest graphite producers.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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