Battery materials company International Graphite has secured funding to construct the first purpose-built commercial graphite micronising plant in Australia. The company has entered into a funding agreement with the Western Australian Government releasing $4.5 million of the grant announced by WA Premier Roger Cook on 22 April 2024. $2.0 million will support construction of Stage…
Lincoln Minerals has released a revised pre-feasibility study for its Kookaburra Graphite Project 35km north of Port Lincoln in South Australia. Described as the newest mine to market in Australia’s graphite industry after the Uley Mine in SA closed in 2017, the study proposes open-pit mining and a simple floatation process to produce a graphite…
Chemical engineering company Hazer Group and Japanese trading company Mitsui & Co have extended their MoU, announced almost two years ago, regarding joint investigation of potential markets for graphite. The original November 2022 MoU covered an initial marketing survey – making use of Mitsui’s global network – for applications of graphitic carbon, which the Australian…
Green hydrogen produced by electrolysis remains expensive right now, but Hazer Group offers a promising alternative – it is transforming biogas waste into hydrogen and graphite. By Glenn Corrie. The hydrogen sector is at a crossroads, as the recent pullback by Fortescue underscored a critical truth: green hydrogen, while promising, is currently too expensive and…
Nanomaterials developer and producer First Graphene has secured funding for a collaborative research project with Swansea University to determine the market potential of the company’s Kainos Technology. The $192,000 grant was secured through Analysis for Innovators (A4i) Round 12, Stage 2 funding which supports research to overcome productivity or technical barriers of new technologies. Delivered…
A graphite manufacturing facility in Adelaide has taken a leap forward following successful testing of its processes to make lithium-ion battery grade materials.
Technology development company Hazer Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea’s POSCO Steel to plan for the integration of Hazer’s technology into POSCO’s low carbon steel. POSCO, one of the world’s largest steel makers, and Hazer will develop a plan to integrate Hazer’s hydrogen production technology into POSCO’s low-carbon steel production. They…
Perth’s Hazer Group is to licence its Hazer Process for producing hydrogen and graphite to Canadian utility FortisBC which will construct a hydrogen production facility in British Columbia – the first to use the process overseas. Hazer will provide engineering services for the Hazer production facility with a design capacity of up to 2,500 tonnes…
Envirostream to recycle LG lithium batteries Battery recycler Envirostream has signed an exclusive three year agreement with LG Energy Solutions to recycle all its recalled lithium ion batteries collected in Australia. Envirostream, a subsidiary of Lithium Australia, expects significantly increased battery collection volumes equating to 140 percent of the company’s total in FY23. LG has…
Chemical engineering company Hazer Group announced on Monday that it has received binding commitments amounting to $9 million, before costs, under a placement. The firm commitments for ordinary, fully-paid share came from “institutional, sophisticated and professional investors” and at an issue price of $0.50 per share, “together with a free attaching quoted HRZO class option…
