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January 2016
29 January 2016
The government has approved a proposal to draw up a law banning the export of unprocessed mineral ores from the country in an effort to generate higher revenues from Sri Lanka’s natural resources.
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28 January 2016
China to set up new industrial park in Pingdu and boost graphene research as part of new industrial plan; American Graphite Technologies completes Lac Rouge exploration work in Canada.
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28 January 2016
The carbon materials company is looking to supplement its existing synthetic graphite battery materials business with a natural graphite-based manufacturing facility in Inner Mongolia, supported by the local government of Baotou.
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27 January 2016
Spanish nanotechnology business Graphenea claims it has brought down the price of graphene from thousands of dollars per gram to just a few dollars in the space of five years, making the material competitive with other widely used nanomaterials.
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26 January 2016
Spanish nanotechnology company reduces selling value of its products as it ramps up capacity to 1 tpa graphene.
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25 January 2016
Drivers demand longer ranges and shorter charges; second generation batteries due 2017-18.
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22 January 2016
As potential commercial uses for the technology increase, with new opportunities in areas such as clothing and sports technology, graphene producers expect funding for application development to pick up.
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22 January 2016
Fluorspar and CCM prices slide; vein graphite to remain stable; US soda ash suppliers nail down 2016 contracts.
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21 January 2016
Syrah finds recarburiser graphite buyer; Alabama completes battery testing and pulls out of graphene.
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19 January 2016
The liberalisation of foreign investment rules and the fact that the country has refused to lower its export prices for the high purity material it produces has tempted an increasing number of overseas operators to the sector, but value addition capacity remains underdeveloped.
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19 January 2016
Consumer demand for longer driving ranges and shorter charging times are expected to be met by the next generation of EV-powering batteries in China, which have so far lagged behind the equivalent technologies developed in Japan and South Korea.
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15 January 2016
Contracting demand from the steel industry and slowing economic activity in China kept amorphous graphite exports steady at subdued levels for most of 2015, with few signs of revival appearing before the Chinese New Year.
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14 January 2016
Beowulf snaps up Finnish graphite properties; Triton raises funds for DFS.
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08 January 2016
Pricing review: Further devaluation of Chinese Renminbi and Euro fluctuations to squeeze profit margins with graphite price ranges expected to widen.
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08 January 2016
The Qinba Graphite Industrial Development Research Centre will have a variety of functions ranging from planning developments, industry analysis and promoting use of the graphite in new applications, as the city aims to make the material an industrial focus.
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08 January 2016
Graphite prices unlikely to revive before mid-February; rare earths prices fall in export markets.
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07 January 2016
China’s MIIT issues list of authorised graphited producers; Fullerex releases graphene price report.
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06 January 2016
Downloadable graph: Value derived from higher grades of graphite increases against flake exports.