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Articles from the October 19, 2022 edition


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  • Semplastics CEO Bill Easter and Director of R&D Kyle Marcus with Voltage Award.

    Semplastics reveals new DioQuest venture

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Apr 16, 2023

    From its X-MAT subsidiary that turns coal into clean and efficient building materials to its X-BATT subsidiary that recycles spent lithium into new batteries, Semplastics has made a name for itself by reimagining waste streams as useful products. Now, this Florida-based company has added to its ranks an approach that benefits everything across the board. DioQuest, the latest Semplastics enterprise, will employ a patent-pending process aimed at sequestering carbon dioxide and... Full story

  • Industrial buildings at Rio Tinto’s Fer et Titane smelter in Canada.

    Critical minerals titans join forces

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 1, 2022

    Rio Tinto, Ottawa to invest C$737M in lowering GHG emissions, upping critical minerals output in Quebec. Mining giant Rio Tinto and the Canadian government have committed to investing up to C$737 million (US$537 million) into significantly reducing the greenhouse gas emissions at Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT), a metallurgical complex in Quebec that produces titanium, scandium, steel, and other metal products critical to electric vehicles, 3D printing, and aerospace. "Rio...

  • A rendering of synapses in the brain with neurons firing through them.

    Quantum computers power VW research

    A.J. Roan, Metal Tech News|Updated Nov 1, 2022

    Branching into the edge field of quantum computing, Volkswagen Group has partnered with Canadian quantum technology company Xanadu to answer a single question: can quantum computers help design batteries? As the known world and its elemental makeup have been thoroughly dissected, humanity has reached the point where it is slightly cumbersome to discover new ways to utilize the elements on the periodic table. Existing classical methods have been the cornerstone of...

  • A Cat loader dumps iron ore into a Scania autonomous mining truck.

    Will autonomous trucks shrink mines?

    Shane Lasley, Mining News|Updated Oct 18, 2022

    Rio Tinto, Scania are reimagining mining with more agile and efficient self-driving truck. Will the automation and electrification of mining trucks shrink the size of equipment used to dig up and haul ore and waste rock at mines around the globe? Rio Tinto believes it could and has teamed up with Scania to develop more energy-efficient and agile autonomous haul trucks at the Channar iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. "Rio Tinto is excited to partner...

  • Columns of liquids used to separate mixed rare earths into individual elements.

    Ucore's Alaska 2023 is now Louisiana 2024

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Oct 18, 2022

    Plans to build first rare earths plant In the Gulf Coast state by 2024. With $10 million in economic incentives and quicker permitting of already established industrial sites on the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana has lured Ucore Rare Metals Inc. and its proprietary rare earths separation technology away from Alaska. In 2020, Ucore set a plan in motion to begin producing individual rare earth elements in Alaska by 2023. The idea was to install its RapidSX rare earths separation... Full story

  • A blue Chevrolet Silverado EV being plugged into a home charger.

    GM secures future EV battery metals

    Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News|Updated Oct 18, 2022

    In another example of global automakers heading to the very front end of global supply chains to source the materials they need to transition to electric mobility, General Motors is making up to a US$69 million strategic investment into Queensland Pacific Metals, an Australian company that is developing a refinery that will produce the nickel and cobalt needed for EV batteries. "The collaboration with Queensland Pacific Metals will provide GM with a secure, cost-competitive...