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Elcora Joins Forces with Graphite Companies for Spherical Graphite Development
HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / March 29, 2016 / Elcora Advanced Materials Corp (TSXV: ERA) (" El...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Elcora Joins Forces with Graphite Companies for Spherical Graphite DevelopmentHALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / March 29, 2016 / Elcora Advanced Materials Corp (TSXV: ERA) (\"Elcora\"), Northern Graphite Corporation (\"Northern\"), Nouveau Monde Mining Enterprises Inc. (\"Nouveau Monde\"), Metals of Africa Limited (\"MTA\"), Coulometrics LLC (\"Coulometrics\") and a private industry partner are pleased to announce that they are jointly acquiring a micronizing and spheronizing mill to produce spherical graphite (\"SPG\"), a critical step in the production of anode material used in lithium ion batteries (\"LIBs\"). \nThe mill will be added to Coulometrics' battery production and test facility. Considerable work has already been completed by Coulometrics to produce SPG and to evaluate many different suppliers of spheronizing equipment. Northern Graphite has financially supported most of this work and has agreed to share its current knowledge on spheronizing with the other participating companies. All of the participating companies will share in any spheronizing technologies that are developed going forward. The spheronizing equipment will be used to evaluate and optimize the yield of SPG from various graphite mine concentrates and to develop next generation and high-yield spheronization technology to meet the demanding cost targets for automotive LIB applications. Ultimately, the goal of all the parties is to achieve full qualification of their materials by LIB manufacturing companies.\nThe development and testing process will be led by Dr. Edward Buiel who commented: \"The addition of the spheronizing equipment will enable us to produce and test Coated Spherical Purified Graphite \"C-SPG\" from end to end within North America. This will rapidly advance our C-SPG development efforts and we believe it is the first real effort by junior graphite companies to address the needs of the LIB industry. It also demonstrates the commitment of those involved to develop next generation, high performance anode materials for LIBs which will provide a significant cost advantage and a greatly reduced environmental impact. They will also represent a major improvement over methods currently employed in China.\"\nCoulometrics is a leading provider of energy storage consulting services and advanced battery component manufacturing services. Dr. Edward Buiel, ...