US battery technology company Pure Lithium has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Vehicle Technology Office to scale production of lithium metal anodes from recycled lithium metal, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Pure Lithium will work with ANL to recover lithium metal from waste streams. It will demonstrate and… Read more »
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Lithium Americas receives $250 million investment from Orion Resource Partners for Thacker Pass lithium project
Lithium Americas has received a strategic investment of $250 million from funds managed by Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm focused on metal and materials projects, for the development and construction of Phase 1 of the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada. The target for completion of Thacker Pass Phase 1 is… Read more »
Idemitsu Kosan to increase lithium sulfide production for solid-state battery materials
Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan plans to construct a large-scale production facility for lithium sulfide, an intermediate raw material for the mass production of all-solid-state battery materials The company will expand its lithium sulfide production capacity to the equivalent of 3 GWh of storage batteries annually and establish an integrated value chain from raw materials… Read more »
Elevated Materials launches to supply lithium battery films
Elevated Materials is a newly formed independent company that aims to supply ultra-thin, uniform lithium films for batteries for EVs, eVTOLs and e-aircraft, energy storage systems and consumer electronics. The company’s technology can be applied across graphite, silicon and lithium metal anodes. The company has received investments from TPG’s Rise Climate fund and Applied Materials…. Read more »
Lyten secures US-produced sulfur to supply its lithium-sulfur manufacturing facilities
Lyten, which is developing lithium-sulfur battery manufacturing, has signed agreements with California Sulphur at the Port of Los Angeles and a Port of Stockton company for the supply of domestically sourced, industrial-grade sulfur for its manufacturing facilities in San Jose and San Leandro in California as well as its recently-announced gigafactory in Reno, Nevada. Lyten… Read more »
UBE starts construction of Louisiana plant to produce lithium-ion battery electrolyte materials
UBE C1 Chemical America, a subsidiary of Japanese chemical manufacturer UBE, has started building a dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant in Louisiana. The plant will produce 100,000 tons of DMC per year and 40,000 tons of EMC derived from DMC per year. The plant is scheduled for completion in July 2026,… Read more »
Mangrove Lithium secures $35 million for electrochemical lithium refining facility in Canada
Mangrove Lithium has secured $35 million in financing to start construction of an electrochemical lithium refining plant in Delta, British Columbia. New investors included Mitsubishi, Asahi Kasei, InBC Investment, Orion Industrial Ventures and Export Development Canada. Existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BMW i Ventures and BDC Capital also joined the round. Construction is already underway… Read more »
Aramco forms Saudi lithium JV with Ma’aden
Saudi energy firm Aramco and mining and metals company Ma’aden have signed an agreement to form a joint venture in Saudi Arabia to potentially start lithium production by 2027. The proposed JV aims to extract lithium from high-concentration deposits and advance direct lithium extraction (DLE) technologies to help meet growing demand domestically and globally. Lithium… Read more »
Standard Lithium and Equinor finalize $225-million US DOE grant
SWA Lithium, a jointly owned US subsidiary of Standard Lithium and Norwegian energy firm Equinor, has closed a $225 million grant from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains for construction of Phase 1 of the South West Arkansas (SWA) lithium project. The commercial-scale Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) facility, located… Read more »
E3 Lithium advances battery-grade lithium testing methods
Canadian lithium development company E3 Lithium is participating in the ISO TC 333 lithium mirror committee through the Standards Council of Canada (SCC). ISO TC 333 is an international technical committee focused on developing standardized methods for the determination of lithium product quality. One of the issues that challenges the sales of lithium products is… Read more »