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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. —Hans Fredrik Wittusen.

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Wärtsilä to provide FEED for liquefied synthetic methane plant

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The plant is to be built by Koppö Energia Oy, a joint venture company between Germany’s Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund and CPC Finland Oy, in Kristinestad, Finland. Earlier this year, the project was awarded the Power-to-X Innovation Award at the Tamarindo Global Wind Investment Awards ceremony.

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MAN Energy Solutions wins pre-engineering contract for methanation reactor in Power-to-X Plant

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The plant, with a total input capacity of 200 MW, will be built in Kristinestad, Finland for the production of green hydrogen and synthetic natural gas (SNG). We urgently need synthetic fuels in large quantities if the decarbonisation of global supply chains is to succeed. Earlier post.)

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BASF and Nornickel partner to supply cobalt and nickel battery materials

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BASF has selected Harjavalta, Finland, as the first location for battery materials production serving the European automotive market. Start-up is planned for late 2020, enabling the supply of approximately 300,000 full electric vehicles per year with BASF battery materials. —Kenneth Lane, President, BASF’s Catalysts division.

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BASF to build new cathode active materials production site in Schwarzheide

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The plant will produce cathode active materials (CAM) with an initial capacity enabling the supply of around 400,000 full electric vehicles per year with BASF battery materials. The plant in Schwarzheide will use precursors (PCAM) from BASF’s previously announced plant in Harjavalta, Finland.

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Umicore inaugurates CAM plant in Poland; complete battery materials value chain in Europe

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The gigafactory will supply battery materials to Umicore’s car and battery cell customers in Europe and marks an important step in achieving the European Union’s ambition of having its own battery ecosystem that is both sustainable and competitive on a global scale. Currently, Umicore in Nysa employs about 240 people.

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

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The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Chemicals (3 projects): In Finland, a project will chemically recycle plastics to be used as a feedstock for refineries. Another project in Sweden will create a first-of-a-kind methanol plant converting CO?,

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