The United States, Australia and Europe make new progress in the lithium battery value chain

According to foreign media reports, the United States, Australia and European countries have recently made new progress in the lithium battery processing value chain, and announced various announcements. The Finnish chemical group BASF has previously expressed its intention to enter the energy storage industry, including establishing a partnership with sodium-sulfur battery manufacturer NGKInsulators. The company also established a battery material processing plant in Harjavalta, Finland, and plans to start processing battery active cathode materials in 2022. The company obtained the construction permit for the processing plant this summer, and plans to provide reliable and sustainable battery product supply to European battery processors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These products are critically supplied to the electric vehicle (EV) industry. BASF's product portfolio includes nickel cobalt aluminum (NCA) oxide and nickel cobalt manganese (NMC) oxide batteries. Industrial construction and engineering service provider Bilfinger recently stated that it has signed a contract with BASF Battery Materials Finland to construct and install pipelines and install insulation facilities for the processing plant. Bilfinger's work began in May this year and will continue until September 2021. After the battery plant of BASF is opened and operated, the cathode materials that can be processed each year can meet the demand for 400,000 electric vehicles. BASF is one of the entities that benefited from the establishment of the European Battery Union, through which the European Commission provides assistance and financial support to help establish a large-scale battery processing 'ecosystem' on the European continent. Another important beneficiary is the Swedish battery processor Northvolt. The company recently announced that it will raise an additional $600 million in equity financing on the basis of more than $3 billion it has already raised to achieve the company's goal of establishing a 150GWh battery processing and recycling facility by 2030. In addition, ManzAG, which supplies processing equipment to manufacturers of solar power generation facilities and lithium batteries, recently announced a strategic partnership to establish a new Ru0026D center and processing line for battery startup InoBatAuto in Slovakia. InoBatAuto claims to be able to customize large-size bagged lithium batteries based on contract orders and customize them according to various vehicle specifications. The company plans to build a processing plant with an annual output of 100MWh, with an initial investment of approximately 100 million euros ($117.44 million), and hopes to build a super plant with an annual output of 10GWh batteries by 2024. Interestingly, InoBatAuto and BASF Battery Materials Finland will focus on life and sales of batteries in the electric vehicle market, rather than stationary battery energy storage systems, and the two companies are cooperating with the US flow battery manufacturer ESS. Progress made by the United States and Australia in battery raw material projects. In Australia, a raw material project to supply nickel and cobalt to the lithium battery market and to supply scandium (Sc) to markets such as aerospace and consumer electronics has made new progress and achieved a 'key milestone' '. The Project Implementation Plan (PEP) for the Sunrise battery material processing plant in New South Wales, Australia has been completed by CleanTeQ Holdings, a metal recycling and industrial water solution company founded by the well-known miner Robert Friedland. The Sunrise battery material processing plant can supply enough nickel materials to support the processing of about 1 million electric vehicles per year, and process cobalt materials that can supply 2 million car batteries. Friedland said: 'The Sunrise project is a long-lived, low-cost, and easy-to-develop asset. It is a demonstration project for a sustainable and auditable supply of nickel and cobalt. We cannot predict the time required for the financing and development of the project, but we You can be patient with the development of this strategic asset. We are committed to developing with partners who know the value of supply chain integration.” In addition, another company created by Friedland is the owner of VRBEnergy, which is A vertically integrated vanadium flow battery manufacturer. In the United States, StandardLithium held an opening ceremony on September 21 to celebrate the commissioning of a lithium extraction plant operated by the company in Arkansas. Bruce Seitz, the director of StandardLithium's lithium extraction plant in Arkansas, presided over the ribbon-cutting. The governor of Arkansas and two senators participated in the opening ceremony. The supply of lithium materials can greatly reduce the recovery time and improve efficiency. Compared with other extraction methods, the purity of lithium materials can be improved. Although the new coronavirus epidemic has occurred in various parts of the United States, the ribbon-cutting ceremony is still going on. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton attended the opening ceremony. StandardLithium project partner LANXNESS operates a bromine plant. The company also processes many other specialty chemicals used in the processing of modern battery systems, including flame retardants and phosphorous chemicals. StandardLithium said that the plant's goal is to initially produce 20,900 tons of high-quality lithium materials per year, which is equivalent to five times the current domestic production in the United States. Disclaimer: Some pictures and content of articles published on this site are from the Internet. If there is any infringement, please contact to delete.