materials processing

July 7, 2025
A subsidiary of CATL and local partners have begun construction on a battery manufacturing complex in West Java, Indonesia.
January 15, 2025
A new study from Stanford says that sodium-ion batteries will need more breakthroughs in order to compete with lithium-ion (Li-ion).
December 15, 2023
Construction has been completed at a factory making electrolyte for vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage systems in Western Australia
May 22, 2023
Samantha McGahan of Australian Vanadium on the electrolyte, which is the single most important material for making vanadium flow batteries.
April 6, 2023
Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.
March 16, 2023
Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.
February 10, 2023
Imperial County has approved schemes to incentivise investment into lithium value chain, leveraging the region’s abundant brine resources.
January 26, 2023
A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.
March 17, 2022
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced financial support for four technology sector manufacturing projects, including a vanadium processing plant.
November 29, 2021
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) supplies most of the world’s cobalt, but exporting semi-finished or finished products rather than raw materials would better help the country capture the value of the metal used in high power lithium-ion batteries.

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