The opening of Vulcan Vitality’s CLEOP facility in Industrial Park Höchst Frankfurt, Germany. (supply: Vulcan Vitality Assets)
Vulcan Vitality has began the manufacturing of lithium hydroxide from geothermal brine-derived lithium on the CLEOP facility in Frankfurt, Germany.
Vulcan Vitality Assets Restricted (Vulcan) has introduced the beginning of lithium hydroxide manufacturing on the firm’s Central Lithium Electrolysis Optimisation Plant (CLEOP) positioned on the Industriepark Höchst in Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany.
From the downstream CLEOP facility, Vulcan can be supplying lithium hydroxide for the battery-grade qualification course of with the corporate’s offtake companions together with, Stellantis, Renault, LG, and Umicore. This course of will happen concurrently with the development of Vulcan’s Part One business plant.
Part One of many challenge, designated Lionheart, will provide roughly 24,000 tonnes each year of lithium hydroxide, sufficient for roughly 500,000 electrical autos (EVs) each year
The CLEOP facility enhances Vulcan’s upstream Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP) in Landau, which was formally opened in late 2023. The LEOP is the place lithium chloride is produced from geothermal brine utilizing the corporate’s Adsorption-type Direct Lithium Extraction (A-DLE) expertise.
The Firm’s Part One upstream and downstream crops will exclude fossil fuels in each the extraction and processing of lithium. This makes Vulcan’s provide chain one of many lowest value and lowest carbon footprint for lithium manufacturing globally. The Part One course of may also contain the co-production of warmth and energy from geothermal useful resource, the surplus of which will be equipped to native communities.
Lately, Vulcan’s operations had been assigned Darkish Inexperienced by S&P World Rankings, the best ever obtained by a Metals and Mining firm globally. S&P World Rankings’ methodology contains six shades, with a Darkish Inexperienced ranking awarded to actions that correspond to the long-term imaginative and prescient of the low-carbon local weather resilient future
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