Canadian graphite mine developer Nouveau Monde Graphite (NMG) has received a commitment of $297 million in financing to support its Phase 2 Matawinie Mine project. The company will receive an equity investment of $82 million from Canada Growth Fund, $61 million from the Government of Québec through Investissement Québec, and $70 million from Italian oil… Read more »
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Sow Good, a candy maker, acquires Tanzania’s Nachu graphite project to pivot battery materials
Sow Good Inc., a Nasdaq-listed freeze-dried candy and snack company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Nachu Graphite Project in Tanzania in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $107 million. If it closes, the transaction would pivot the company into critical minerals and battery anode materials. The Nachu Project is an advanced-stage open-pit… Read more »
HPQ Silicon reports 6,696 mAh from GEN4 silicon anode in 21700 format, 45% above graphite baseline
HPQ Silicon has reported that 21700 cylindrical cells made with Novacium’s GEN4 silicon-based anode material achieved an average discharge capacity above 6,600 mAh, with a record cell reaching 6,696 mAh at 319.9 Wh/kg gravimetric and 906.2 Wh/L volumetric energy density, under standard industry test conditions (0.1C discharge, 4.2–2.5 V, 25 °C). Commercial 21700 graphite cells… Read more »
Global Battery Materials ships first graphite samples to US customer, opens Quebec processing lab
Global Battery Materials Corp. (GBM) has shipped its first graphite samples to a US customer for qualification and opened a new processing lab in Quebec—two milestones the company says demonstrate its ability to build a North American graphite supply chain outside of Chinese production. The samples came from GBM’s Kearney Mine in Ontario, one of… Read more »
UCF Research shows C-BATT’s Obsidia battery anode material swells less than graphite during lithiation
University of Central Florida (UCF) research suggests that C-BATT’s Obsidia battery anode material could help solve material swelling during cycling, which is one of the most persistent causes of failure in lithium-ion batteries. The results of the research show that Obsidia exhibits lower swelling during lithiation than graphite anode material. When battery materials swell during… Read more »
NOVONIX sells battery testing division to its former CEO to refocus on synthetic graphite
NOVONIX is divesting its Battery Technology Solutions business in Nova Scotia, Canada, selling the unit back to its founder and former NOVONIX CEO Chris Burns for $1. The move sharpens the company’s focus on building a vertically integrated synthetic graphite supply chain in North America. BTS, founded in 2013 in collaboration with Dalhousie University researchers… Read more »
Canadian IP office allows patent for Focus Graphite’s silicon graphite anode materials
Focus Graphite Advanced Materials, which is developing high-grade flake graphite deposits and graphite materials, has announced that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has allowed its Canadian patent application for battery anode materials. Patent No. 3,209,696, entitled Advanced Anode Materials Comprising Spheroidal Additive-Enhanced Graphite Particles and Process for Making Same, covers proprietary processes and compositions for… Read more »
Talga receives Japanese patent for graphite anode technology
Battery materials and technology company Talga has been granted a patent in Japan that builds on its Talnode-C product line, which combines shaping and coating methods as well as purification to make battery anode materials for use in high-power applications such as hybrid vehicles. Japanese Patent No. 7779483, titled “Anode Material and Method for Producing… Read more »
Northern Graphite and Obeikan to develop battery anode material plant in Saudi Arabia
Canada-based Northern Graphite and Saudi industrial group Obeikan Investment have signed a financing agreement to jointly develop and operate a large-scale battery anode material (BAM) facility in Saudi Arabia through a joint venture company. The $200-million BAM facility will have an initial annual production capacity of 25,000 tonnes. Construction of the facility is expected to… Read more »
Focus Graphite validates graphite flake sizing technology
Canadian mining and battery materials developer Focus Graphite Advanced Materials has developed and validated a new graphite flake size characterization technology, which it has integrated into the geometallurgical model of its Lac Tetepisca Graphite Project in Quebec. The technology enables high-resolution mapping of graphite flake size distribution across a deposit, down to individual geological domains… Read more »