Charged

JULY 26, 2022

Albemarle , a specialty chemical firm, has announced a new lithium production plant in Antofagasta, Chile, which it says will be its third chemical conversion plant. According to Albemarle, “the plant is expected to double lithium production.” Source: Albemarle.

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Charged

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Albemarle , a US-based chemical manufacturer, has won a $90-million grant from the US Department of Defense to expand domestic mining and production of lithium for EV batteries. “Lithium is an essential ingredient in our sustainable energy future. Source: Albermale

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Charged

MAY 17, 2022

6K, a producer of engineered materials for lithium-ion batteries, has raised $102 million in the first of two Series D funding tranches. The round was led by Koch Strategic Platforms, an investment arm of fossil fuel giant Koch Industries, with participation by investors Energy Impact Partners, Albemarle, HG Ventures and others.

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Financial Times: Energy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Chinese consumer shift to smaller battery cars that need less of the metal is also expected to cut usage

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Charged

MARCH 2, 2023

A few days ago, share prices of lithium miners including Albemarle, SQM, Livent, Piedmont Lithium and Lithium Americas ,plunged, losing as much as 9% on a day when the S&P 500 dropped only a fraction of a point. Barron’s explains that CATL’s move means lower battery prices (at least for now). Is a lithium price war in the offing?

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Charged

MAY 29, 2023

Albemarle will supply 100,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide between 2026 and 2030, and Chilean producer SQM will deliver an unspecified amount of lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide. Drake says one Ford battery plant will have access to a supply of IRA-compliant nickel sulphate intermediate MHP, under a 2022 deal with Brazilian miner Vale.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Given the high proportion of brine producers located in areas deemed at high risk of water overexploitation, many brine producers, including SQM and Albemarle, both of which have operations in the Chilean Salar de Atacama, have introduced plans to reduce water consumption at their operations.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Given the expected importance of lithium in a world that is becoming heavily reliant on lithium-ion batteries, I thought it would be worthwhile to review the world’s current lithium production, as well as the location of its reserves. is home to two of the world’s top-producing lithium companies: Albemarle and Livent.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 9, 2023

Gabriel Boric, president of the world’s second largest producer of lithium, Chile, announced on April 20 that the country was adopting a “National Lithium Strategy.” And … that was pretty much it. I wish there was more to it. I wish I could say that the media exploded, that omens for the inevitable destruction of […]

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The #1 provider in the world of lithium for EV batteries is Albemarle Corporation. Electrifying transport relies on massively scaling up mining & processing of a handful of minerals. The most famous of those minerals is lithium. For the state of North Carolina, that […].

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 9, 2021

As Australia moves glacially towards exporting products that mitigate climate change instead of exporting products that increase it, Western Australia is taking Robyn Denholm’s advice seriously.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 4, 2021

GM has placed a multi-million dollar bet on direct brine extraction of lithium in the Salton Sea Geothermal Area while Albemarle says its new battery materials innovation center will begin operations this month.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 15, 2021

Investors who are focusing on other industries, such as lithium and batteries, are also benefitting from Tesla's success. CNN reported that Tesla's stock surge isn't just making Elon Musk and Tesla investors rich — it's affecting other industries as well.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 14, 2021

A couple of mid-term and long-term targets are often expressed by people who follow this industry closely: 50% EV market share by 2025 and 100% by 2030. ZETA is committed to achieving the latter in the.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 13, 2021

Albemarle Corporation has announced plans to expand capacity at its lithium production facility in Silver Peak, Nevada.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 25, 2020

Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 13 projects through a Battery Manufacturing Lab Call with combined funding of almost $15 million over three years.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 25, 2020

CleanTechnica has been digging into lithium and nickel like we never did before. Every revelation or learning session opens up several more questions. This week, I will again be talking with the boys at RK Equity about both metals.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 23, 2020

A few weeks ago, one of our writers wrote up a story on the company Standard Lithium and its plan to get lithium for EV batteries in a new, innovative way. Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded on Twitter that he thought the approach had "a lot of potential.".

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CleanTechnica

JULY 26, 2020

Following some of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's comments regarding battery production during the quarterly Tesla conference call for shareholders last week, I decided to have two long conversations with Howard Klein and Rodney Hooper of RK Equity about the EV battery production and mining industries.

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