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March 2022
30 March 2022
With demand for critical battery raw materials such as lithium, cobalt and nickel increasing, investments are flooding in to solve the emerging challenge posed by end-of-life lithium-ion batteries.
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29 March 2022
United States-headquartered lithium producer Albemarle Corp is mulling the restart of an old spodumene-based lithium mine located in Kings Mountain, in the US state of North Carolina, as demand for the battery raw material continues to increase alongside prices while supply remains tight.
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25 March 2022
Alternative chemistries to lithium-ion batteries could account for more than 10% of the nascent stationary energy storage market by 2025, according to research group IDTechEx.
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24 March 2022
China’s lithium carbonate prices fell further over the past week due to buyers’ ongoing reluctance to purchase at high prices and calls from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) for lithium price stability.
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22 March 2022
Executives from South Korean steelmaker Posco met with Argentina President Alberto Fernández early this week with the company beginning construction operations to set up a lithium hydroxide plant in the north of the South American country.
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11 March 2022
German speciality chemicals producer Lanxess has reported a 17.2% year-on-year increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (Ebitda) before exceptional items for its 2021 fiscal year.
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10 March 2022
Russia’s belligerence against Ukraine has highlighted again the theme of national security and energy independence for the EU and the United States, in light of the steps that both are taking toward a future-proof energy transition.
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03 March 2022
A bullish long-term outlook for lithium has resource-rich Argentina looking to incentivize bringing more projects into the country over the next three years to meet soaring global demand for the battery raw material.
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02 March 2022
Global lithium prices have reached historic highs because of booming demand as well as a persistent shortage of lithium salts. But how long this bull run will continue is unknown, delegates heard at a recent battery materials seminar.
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02 March 2022
Australia's Core Lithium entered into a legally binding term sheet agreement with United States electric vehicles (EV) maker Tesla for the supply of up to 110,000 dry metric tonnes (dmt) of spodumene concentrate, it said on Wednesday March 2.