What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) v2food buys up US company Daring Foods for undisclosed amount Plant protein business v2food has announced a strategic partnership with multinational food and biotechnology company Ajinomoto, as well as the acquisition of US plant-based chicken company Daring Foods. According to a statement from…
Australian Vanadium has achieved a key regulatory milestone with planning approval for its vanadium processing facility at Tenindewa, approximately 65 kilometres east of Geraldton, according to an announcement on Sunday. The Western Australian Planning Commission approved the development application for the processing plant, which forms a central component of the company’s integrated vanadium supply chain…
ARE receives $5m grant for rare earths development Australian Rare Earths has received a $5 million grant from the federal government’s International Partnerships in Critical Minerals Program. The funding will support additional metallurgical test work, completion of a pre-feasibility study and building/operating a demonstration plant at the company’s Koppamurra project, a frontier ionic clay rare…
Australian Vanadium subsidiary VSUN Energy has completed Phase 1 of Project Lumina designed to assess the viability of constructing a vanadium flow battery energy storage system in Australia. Phase 1 was an internal analysis which has undergone an independent external review to assess whether a VFB battery electric storage (BESS) solution is likely to be…
Australian Vanadium (AVL) has completed factory acceptance testing (FAT) of a vanadium flow battery (VFB) – the first to be manufactured using Australian manufactured vanadium electrolyte. The 220kWh VFB, to be installed at a Horizon Power site in Kununurra, Western Australia, can deliver up to 78kW of power for long duration energy storage. The battery…
Battery materials company Australian Vanadium (AVL) has implemented its merger with Technology Metals Australia and has completed work on an Optimised Feasibility Study (OFS) to consolidate the two adjoining projects across one orebody. AVL said the consolidated project showed a 39 percent increase in measured and indicated categories for the high vanadium grade ore and…
Australian Vanadium receives $14.7 million grant Battery materials company Australian Vanadium has received a milestone payment of $14.7 million from the federal government under the Modern Manufacturing Initiative – Manufacturing Collaboration Stream. The grant provides up to $49 million to support the company’s Australian Vanadium Project to enable new critical mineral production which will support…
VSUN Energy’s new appointments speed adoption of vanadium flow batteries Australian Vanadium (AVL) has welcomed Steve Banning as Principal Advisor and Dr Yifeng Li as Product Development Manager for its 100 percent owned subsidiary, vanadium flow battery (VFB) manufacturer VSUN Energy. These appointments are pivotal to unlocking AVL’s ambition to accelerate the uptake of VFBs…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Australian Vanadium produces first battery electrolyte Australian Vanadium has successfully produced its first high purity vanadium electrolyte, ready for use in vanadium redox flow batteries. Production follows the commissioning of the company’s vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in Perth in December.…
Australian Vanadium Limited has successfully produced its first high purity vanadium electrolyte, ready for use in vanadium redox flow batteries. Production follows the commissioning of the company’s vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility in Perth in December. Independent analysis of the vanadium electrolyte produced at the facility shows that the impurities in the electrolyte were well within…