batteries

Less than 1% of the 20 million-tonne manganese produced each year is used in batteries, but the battery industry is disrupting the manganese market as increases to demand from the…

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is delighted to announce its first Battery Gigafactories Asia Pacific – where the region’s government, industry and finance will meet to chart a course for the region’s lithium…

Growing demand for batteries means that significant volumes of batteries deployed to transport, portable and energy storage system applications will reach their end-of-life in the coming decades, posing the question:…

By 2033, 10% of metal supply to come from battery recycling The lithium-ion battery recycling market has experienced significant growth in the past 18 months, particularly in the US and…

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is heading to Los Angeles for a full revamp of Benchmark Week in 2023 – maintaining the deal-making and networking for the industry – which combines Benchmark’s…

BMW plans to turn new and used electric vehicle batteries into a system that can store energy for homes and businesses. The product—recently unveiled in Montreal, marks the company’s entry…

Clean Energy Runs on Magnets was last modified: December 6th, 2016 by MMTA

  Indonesia’s ascendance to the heart of the lithium-ion battery supply chain has been incredible; a rise that has fundamentally challenged many of the mining industry’s long-held beliefs.   To…

In this submission to the Crucible on the subject of critical materials underpinning energy transition, Project Blue focusses on cobalt.  While there are numerous challenges facing the cobalt supply chain,…

  What makes vanadium critical? Vanadium ranks 10/40 in Project Blue’s Critical Materials Risk Index (CMRI) 2022.   Concerns over vanadium supply availability are underpinned by its co-product nature.  Vanadium feedstock…

E-Waste World / Battery Recycling / Metal Recycling Conference & Expo is the must-attend co-located event for electronics manufacturers and suppliers, ITAD companies, battery producers, recycling companies, critical raw material…

Could electric vehicles be one solution to energy storage? Maria Cox, MMTA What if the electricity grid were to use the batteries in the growing numbers of electric vehicles to…

Global natural resources Glencore, a major producer, recycler, and marketer of key battery metals, has announced an intention to partner, jointly with FCC Ámbito and Iberdrola, on establishing a lithium-ion…

Graphene has been around now for some 12 years. For those in the minor metals industry, should it be seen as a friend or a foe – a substitute or complementary? This short piece will look at graphene: what it is and just some of what it does. And how it may be regarded by those involved in minor metals.

In just a few days, the MMTA is delighted to be welcoming members and delegates in person to the historic UK city of Sheffield for the International Minor Metals Conference…

Dear Members From feet of snow this time in January, I believe that today, Friday, we are going to have temperatures in the low 70s Fahrenheit. We may also have…

Aluminium batteries have been in the news recently as a viable challenger to lithium-ion cells. Researchers from Stanford University have created a fast-charging, inexpensive, long-lasting and flexible aluminium battery. The…

“There needs to be more widespread investment in the development and exploration of all critical mineral resources” Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (Benchmark) is a world leading clean energy supply chain price…

Kymera buys AmeriTi Manufacturing In early April, speciality materials company Kymera announced it had closed its transaction to acquire AmeriTi Manufacturing. Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, AmeriTi is a leading manufacturer…

Hydrovolt JV begins battery recycling in Norway Hydrovolt, the battery recycling joint-venture between battery maker Northvolt and aluminium group Hydro, has commenced commercial recycling operations in Fredrikstad, southern Norway. Hydrovolt…

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Forschungszentrum Jülich have now presented a process that, for the first time ever, allows this so-called lithium plating process to…

The Raw Materials Week is an annual event organised by the European Commission. It gathers a wide range of stakeholders discussing policies and initiatives in the field of raw material, providing…

On July 30th, the grand opening ceremony of Tesla’s Gigafactory based outside Sparks, Nevada took place. Although nowhere near full planned capacity, this is a major step for Tesla moving…

A free workshop by the EERA Energy Materials for Innovation (EM4I) initiative with the participation of the Advanced Materials 2030 Initiative (AMI2030) Date & Time    13 March 2023 – 13:30…

Since the mass market adoption of lithium ion batteries in the early 1990s, cell prices have fallen year on year, resulting in a reduction of 73% since 2014 alone. This…

    As one who pays superficial attention to the booming battery industry, I’m struck by the frequency with which new technologies are touted that are “set to replace lithium-ion…

By Tamra Alliot Vanadium may be seeking a leading position in the renewable energy revolution. The tricky issue of energy storage could be solved with vanadium redox flow batteries (RFBs).…