Urbix finds itself increasingly at the center of important conversations around the future of energy in the United States.
“Globally we’re seeing a trend of the electrification of everything,”
says Nico Cuevas, CEO and Chairman of Urbix, a company that has found
itself growing into world demand for the product they have helped
revolutionize.
Cuevas points out that roughly 22 percent of the lithium-ion battery
in an electric vehicle is made up of purified and processed graphite. At
present, no graphite is mined in the United States and at least 85
percent of natural purified graphite comes from China. Until now.
Urbix’s proprietary methods for the purification and spheroidization
of natural graphite are revolutionary and steeped in a genesis of clean
and green technology, placing them at the head of a growing field.
Mesa electric vehicle battery supplier collaborating with global company for US production
Jeff Gifford
4 - 5 minutes
Mesa-based graphite processing company Urbix Inc. says it’s closer
to establishing a $280 million production facility now that it has
signed a joint development agreement with South Korea-based global
electric vehicle battery maker SK On (SKO) Co. Ltd. to develop materials
for advanced lithium-ion batteries.
Under the deal, Urbix will work with SKO on industrialized anode
materials that will supply the battery maker’s American gigafactories.
✓ Urbix was founded in 2014 and describes itself as the only U.S.
company producing natural battery grade graphite for use in electric
vehicles and battery storage systems. It says that its partnership with
SKO will accelerate its plans to establish a commercial anode production
facility. Plans call for producing 28,500 metric tons of anode products
yearly — enough to power 350,000 high-performance EVs — by 2025.
The Mesa company said through a spokesperson that it hasn’t decided
yet where its production facility will be located but that it hopes to
secure a site by the end of March, and places both inside and outside
Arizona are being considered. Urbix currently employs 55 people in
Arizona and said it hopes to hire at least another 30 over the next 12
months.
The partnership with SKO helps reduce the need for EV battery-grade graphite from China.
“Working with such a renowned battery manufacturer means that we can
accelerate our production efforts, and more effectively address the
supply of graphite,”Urbix CEO Nico Cuevas said in a statement. “By
utilizing Urbix’s innovative technologies, we can shift more of the
refinement and production of battery-grade graphite to the US, a mission
we remain committed to.”
Urbix says its proprietary graphite processing system uses 10% of
the energy, 6% of the acid and 7% of the time needed by existing
processes. The Mesa company also said it eliminates the use of
hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids and has yields that are more than
twice the industry standard."
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✓ SKO is the lithium-ion battery subsidiary of SK Innovation. It has
two battery manufacturing plants in Georgia. It also has a joint venture
with Ford Motor Co., called BlueOval SK, to build three more battery
plants in the Southeast that will go online in 2025. That ramp-up in
U.S. production means more U.S. supplies are needed.
✓ The deal also helps SKO benefit under provisions of the federal
Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, which uses tax credits to encourage
domestic energy production and manufacturing using domestic supplies.
The IRA also aims to reduce carbon emissions by about 40% before 2030.
“This agreement is meaningful in increasing the possibility of
securing eco-friendly and high-performance anode active materials for
use in SK On’s U.S. plants,” Sun Heeyoung, SK On’s vice president in
charge of advanced research, in a statement. “SK On will continue to
work to develop anode materials that can maximize battery performance.”
EV battery manufacturer SK On announced a joint development agreement (JDA) ... SK On currently focuses on building global production bases in the U.S. and ...
Senator Mark Kelly’s Visit to Urbix Inc. Highlights
Importance of Graphite Processing to Economic and National Security -
Urbix, Inc.
3 - 4 minutes
Urbix,
Inc. CEO, Chairman & co-founder, Nico Cuevas (right) greets Senator
Mark Kelly (D-AZ) at the Urbix pilot plant at Mesa, Arizona.
On July 9th, U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) toured
Urbix, Inc. in Mesa, Arizona, the only environmentally friendly
U.S.-based processor of natural graphite in the country. During his
visit, Senator Kelly met with the Urbix leadership team and workers at
the facility. The tour showcased Urbix’s proprietary methods and
technology for purifying and spheroidizing natural graphite, an
essential component in lithium-ion batteries. Senator Kelly and the
Urbix leadership team also discussed graphite’s increasing importance to
the country’s economic future and national security interests, as well
as the environmental benefits of processing natural graphite in the U.S.
instead of China.
America faces intense competition from geopolitical rivals to secure
reliable and sustained access to critical minerals like graphite.
From
left: Urbix Director of Operations, Luis Olaguibel; CEO & Chairman,
Nico Cuevas, Executive Vice-President, Anthony J. Parkinson; and
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) tour the Urbix pilot plant.
“We are fortunate to have leaders like Senator Kelly who are focused
on securing supply chains for critical minerals to strengthen the
country’s economic future and national security,” said Nico Cuevas, CEO, and Chairman of Urbix Inc. “We
are in a competition to lead the global economy and the energy
transition that is happening through increased demand for advanced
batteries. It is not too late to make the investments and policy changes
required to encourage innovation and investment in the industries that
will make U.S. companies more competitive in the global market.”
Senator Kelly is also working to address climate change and is a
champion of research and development to identify technologies that
reduce emissions and make renewable energy more cost-effective.
Following his visit, Senator Kelly expressed his support for graphite
processing’s critical role in building the 21st century economy.
“Arizona is home to the high tech workforce needed to enhance the
supply chain and help our nation achieve its renewable energy goals,” said Senator Mark Kelly.
“Homegrown companies like Urbix are innovators in the important effort
to maintain American energy independence and break our reliance on China
for critical minerals. By making investments in infrastructure,
including electric vehicle infrastructure, and in parts of the
technology supply chain including microchips, we can continue to grow
Arizona’s tech leadership.”
Cuevas added: “We want to thank Senator Kelly for
his visit and support for American companies powering the future
economy. We look forward to continuing our work to ensure Arizona will
be a national leader in driving America’s energy transition. ◊
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Looks like 'a day of glory' for District 5 Councilmember David Luna with ribbon-cutting scissors in-hand in the photo opp that got featured in a press release from City of Mesa Newsroom yesterday:
Mesa celebrates expansion of Urbix Resources
into Falcon District
(Launch Point got re-located into empty space at The Mesa Center for Higher Education, the former police station, before city officials cooked-up plans for an ASU satellite campus.)
"Urbix was founded in 2014 and was the first client at the downtown Mesa location of LaunchPoint, the Mesa Technology Accelerator whose mission is to stimulate the establishment and growth of small technology-based companies and other businesses in the east valley. . . "
>> YOU CAN READ ALL OF WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAID in the press release, but here's the better read-out:
"This is a fantastic moment in our young history. To see how this relatively small facility of just 31,000 square feet will have such positive impact in the U.S.'s Energy Storage Critical Mineral Strategy, and also in the world, is super motivating and exciting," Urbix Resources Chairman and Co-Founder Nico Cuevas said.
"This is a huge milestone for us and we have plenty more work to do. We have an incredible team at Urbix and amazing support from the City of Mesa, the region and the state of Arizona." In support of its eco-friendly approach, Urbix Resources was named Cleantech Open's Best Business Model in 2017. Cleantech runs the world's largest clean technology accelerator program, with the mission to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with ideas to solve our greatest environmental and energy challenges. For more information about Urbix, visit www.urbixresources.com.
Sept 30 (Reuters) - Bass Metals Ltd BSM.AX :* SIGNED A STRATEGIC MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WIT URBIX RESOURCES LLC * MOU TO WORK OVER NEXT 180 DAYS TO ESTABLISH JV FOR PROCESSING OF BASS HIGH GRADE GRAPHITE INTO VALUE ADDED DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS _________________________________________________________________________________
ASX-listed Bass Metals and downstream graphite processor Urbix Resources have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to identify the optimum joint venture (JV) structure and product mix with a view of establishing a production facility in Madagascar.
Bass’ large flake dominated deposit is suitable for a broad range of downstream applications, the mining company release said on Monday.
Bass and Urbix would delineate terms for establishing a JV facility in Madagascar capable of producing a purified high-value graphite product, which would use Urbix’s propriety technology and Bass’ graphmada large flake graphite. Urbix’s proprietary advanced technology includes environment- and cost-conscious purification methods that were not reliant on environmentally unsustainable hydrofluoric acid treatments, Bass noted.
Urbix is currently engaged in building what will be one of the largest natural graphite purification facilities in North America. Upon completion, the 9 450 km2 facility at Falcon Airfield in Mesa, Arizona will have the capability of purifying up to 24 000 t/y. The parties would aim to establish the JV in the next 180 days. Source: https://m.miningweekly.com _________________________________________________________________________________
https://twitter.com/urbixresources _________________________________________________________________________________ Valley graphene startup to open larger Mesa production facility
Startup also unloaded assets in Mexico for undisclosed price
Now here's a Lo-Fi downtown Mesa success story if ever there was one: the transformation of an under-used existing 53,000 sq.ft building that didn't deliver the results when city officials wanted to make Mesa "a college town" by locating Wilkes University and the so-called Center for Higher Education in the former Police Building on 2nd Street. What is working well now at LaunchPoint is a company named Urbix, as noted on this blog site last year in a post an excerpt is inserted here. Read entire post > click here There's an update today about advanced testing programs and more investments
16 May 2017
A New Era For Transnational AZ-Mexico Tech Development
Chairman of Mesa-based Urbix, Nico Cuevas Ushers in a New Graphene Era
Phoenix, Arizona – May 15, 2017 – At a TEDx event in Hermosillo, Mexico early in May, Phoenix-based Urbix Resources co-founder and chairman, Nico Cuevas, heralded in the Graphene Age.
“We are entering a new era,” Cuevas told a full and enthusiastic audience at the Auditorio del COBACH.
What is coming, Cuevas says, is a “wave of innovation that will allow a social and economic development only comparable to the Industrial Revolution.” As Cuevas points out, graphene makes possible the next level of technological development, including conductive inks for the production of ultra thin and ultralight circuitry, radically thin mobile phones, super-light bulletproof vests, water purification membranes, light and highly efficient batteries and other innovations . . .
The company recently completed their second round of financing and is moving into position to take their place as one of the top graphene-producing organizations in the world. Visit: www.UrbixResources.com
Your MesaZona blogger was wondering - obviously to himself - whatever happened to all the helluva hullabaloo about the prospects over Graphene here in Mesa that first was featured on the blog site back in 2017 and 2018? Let's attempt to update that later with references taken the archives using this site's Searchbox, noting this element's history:
> Graphene was first isolated in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two University of Manchester academics who used Scotch tape to peel off layers of carbon a single atom thick – making the world’s first “two-dimensional” material. The carbon atoms’ strong hexagonal arrangement leaves electrons free to move easily across the layers, carrying electrical charge or heat very effectively.
> Geim and Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel prize in physics for their efforts.
> Potential uses cited by researchers range from condoms to concrete and electronics to aeroplanes.
The UK was early in sensing an opportunity, with government investment in graphene that has launched clusters of companies focused on the material, particularly around Manchester.
> Other countries cottoned on.
In 2014, the European Union launched a 10-year, billion-euro research project, and it is also looking at defence applications.
However, by 2017 China had more graphene companies than any other country, outstripping the US, according to research by Fullerex, a consultancy.
> Graphene is now relatively widely available, but quality and cost varies considerably between producers. They generally either grow graphene crystals from the bottom up, or strip away layers of pencil-lead graphite. Yet both methods have disadvantages, and producers are yet to crack the challenge of using graphene at an industrial level.
--- Reference:
How ‘wonder material’ graphene became a national security concern
UK and China are racing to develop forms of the super-strength technology that has potential aerospace and weaponry uses
Phoenix, Arizona – May 15, 2017 – At a TEDx event in Hermosillo, Mexico early in May, Phoenix-based Urbix Resources co-founder and chairman, Nico Cuevas, heralded in the Graphene Age.
“We are entering a new era,” Cuevas told a full and enthusiastic audience at the Auditorio del COBACH. What is coming, Cuevas says, is a “wave of innovation that will allow a social and economic development only comparable to the Industrial Revolution.” As Cuevas points out, graphene makes possible the next level of technological development, including conductive inks for the production of ultra thin and ultralight circuitry, radically thin mobile phones, super-light bulletproof vests, water purification membranes, light and highly efficient batteries and other innovations.
The challenge, Cuevas stresses, is that, while the demand for this super-material is growing at a phenomenal rate as ever more high tech uses are found, at present, “the graphene market has a huge bottleneck: industrial scale production.” By popular estimate, in 2016, only a few hundred kilograms of graphene were produced world-wide. And much of that, Cuevas maintains, was not even pristine graphene, but a different substance called graphene oxide. “In reality,” says Cuevas, “it is very difficult to compare graphene oxide directly with graphene due to the fact that the production processes and applications can be very different.”
That said, Cuevas is clear on what is better. “Imagine you go to the most prestigious vineyard in the world and order a bottle of their best vintage. You buy the bottle, take it home, open it, and then realize that what they sold to you was a purple juice with mashed grapes, something that is not wine yet. That in my opinion is graphene oxide.” Blogger Note: A rash of recent market estimates towards the end of last year put the international market for a graphene in the range of a few hundred million dollars.
Urbix Resources, the company Cuevas co-founded in 2014, currently “has the monthly capacity to produce eight kilograms of pristine graphene” in the company’s state-of-the-art lab in Mesa, Arizona. According to international graphene production estimates, Cuevas says, that could be half of what was produced worldwide last year. More, says Cuevas, their methods are green and the company uses “a graphite purification method that doesn’t use hydrofluoric acid, a graphene exfoliation with poly-ionic liquids that are 95-percent recyclable, and has an efficiency of 97-percent.” And that production capability is growing.
In addition to the Mesa-based lab, Urbix has a milling facility in Hermosillo, Mexico where the company is mining the source material for what Cuevas feels are some of the highest grade graphite products currently available. The company recently completed their second round of financing and is moving into position to take their place as one of the top graphene-producing organizations in the world.
Visit: www.UrbixResources.com Media Contact Company Name: Urbix Resources Contact Person: Adam Small Email: asmall@grupourbix.com Phone: (480) 269-4662 Country: United States Website:www.UrbixResources.com
Now here's a Lo-Fi downtown Mesa success story if ever there was one: the transformation of an under-used existing 53,000 sq.ft building that didn't deliver the results when city officials wanted to make Mesa "a college town" by locating Wilkes University and the so-called Center for Higher Education in the former Police Building on 2nd Street. What is working well now at LaunchPoint is a company named Urbix, as noted on this blog site last year in a post an excerpt is inserted here.
There's an update today about advanced testing programs and more investments
Urbix Resources, LLC is an advanced natural graphite processor with expertise ranging across low-cost environmentally friendly graphite purification, nuclear graphite, graphene, and other advanced carbon derivatives. Urbix is also an expert in li-ion battery cell design and boasts next generation high voltage electrolyte and fast charging electrode nanoarchitecture.
South Star Mining announces advanced testing program, listing on OTCQB Exchange and DTC eligibility
South Star Mining announces advanced testing program, listing on OTCQB Exchange and DTC eligibility
South Star Mining Corp. announced that it has entered into an agreement with Urbix Resources, LLC for advanced testing, optimization development and commercialization of its Santa Cruz project graphite concentrates. The Company would also like to announce that it has been listed for trading on the OTCQB(R) Market exchange in the United States under the symbol "STSBF". South Star has also applied for Depository Trust Company ("DTC") eligibility. The testing program will include detailed characterization, purification, expandability and market suitability on four different flake-size concentrates previously produced during the Company's pilot plant program. The evaluation will take place at Urbix's cutting edge R&D facility in Mesa, Arizona and incorporate its advanced purification and exfoliation technologies. The program will begin within 30 days and require approximately twelve weeks to complete. Upon completion of this round of test work, the companies have agreed to work toward formalizing potential commercial relationships including offtakes, processing, technology sharing and product distribution. Total estimated value of the test program is approximately C$400,000 which will be partially paid in cash and grants with the balance payable to Urbix as 384,000 shares in the Company valued at C$0.45 per share. The share issuance is subject to TSX approval and a four month hold period. Company CEO Mr Eric Allison stated "We are very excited about moving forward on one of our key strategic objectives in association with a leading graphite technology company like Urbix. The information provided will greatly assist South Star in its marketing efforts as well as in the ultimate design of our processing facilities in Brazil. We are firm believers in the future of graphite, not only in its traditional markets, but in many new advanced applications and Urbix is at the forefront of this technological development."
Arizona company creates economically viable graphene concrete
An achievement that represents an industry breakthrough.
By Amit Malewar
Designed in collaboration with one of the world’s largest producers of lightweight concrete, Urbix’s solution delivers material performance improvements, but at a cost that is lower than current lightweight concrete alternatives. A graphene industry first.
Others have tested graphene as an additive in cement and concrete in the past, seeking to improve a variety of concrete’s performance characteristics. Urbix’s research and development team solved the challenge by creating what they call a Graphenesque™ additive that provides a 33 percent increase in compressive strength, a 32 percent reduction in CO2 emissions, and at a cost that is 16.6 percent lower than the next best lightweight concrete alternative on the market. “It is ultimately the cost of the additive versus benefits of performance that have to be compared with any incumbent technology, especially graphene products,” explains Urbix Chairman Nicolas Cuevas.“That cost versus benefit is the real barrier that’s been keeping graphene out of commercial products until now.” Urbix is known primarily for its low cost and environmentally friendly flake graphite purification for Li-ion batteries but is quickly establishing itself as one of the premier vertically integrated providers of graphene and Graphenesque™ products. “The material performance of our solution for lightweight concrete is great,” says Urbix Chief Marketing Officer Adam Small. “But the low costs and large-scale capabilities are what makes this achievement so profound. By leveraging our existing global graphite mining relationships, we offer near vertical integration, an aspect that is almost mandatory for any company entering the graphene space.” The additive is made in a way that is similar in infrastructure to Urbix’s proprietary purification process, for which a full-scale plant is currently being developed in the Phoenix area. At pilot scale production, it is expected the plant will be capable of producing in excess of 100 metric tons of the concrete additive monthly by the end of 2019. For reference, that amount will be enough material to produce between 10,000 and 40,000 metric tons of the new Urbix-enhanced lightweight concrete.
This production figure will be scaled significantly higher beyond 2020. At present, testing and certification continue.
Urbix and their associates anticipate that they will bring the technology to market in 2020.
****EDIT: meant to say Graphene is made out of Carbon, not Silicon. Hello. Welcome to NeoScribe
. We’ve all seen the headlines. Graphene Batteries that charge five times faster! Solid-State Batteries with 10 times the capacity! There’re so many news stories about energy storage research these days that after a while you’re like, bring it to market already! Because we get so excited from these headlines that we want them in our devices now! The great Joe Scott said it best when he said… ///Joe Scott Vid/// And while these promising breakthroughs may not lead to actual products as fast as we would like, eventually one or many WILL get there. Right? So, while we wait, let’s talk about yet ANOTHER breakthrough in energy storage research, the record-breaking 3D Printed Graphene Supercapacitor from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory! I get a kick out of that description, it’s like all of the Nerd Buzzwords packed together, 3D Printed Graphene Supercapacitor.
Anyway, before we talk about that let’s BRIEFLY talk about what supercapacitors are. A Supercapacitor or Supercap is an energy storage device similar to batteries. While batteries release electrical energy from chemical reactions, Supercaps GENERALLY store energy from static electricity. Supercaps have a lot of advantages over batteries and may one day replace batteries as the dominant portable energy storage technology. They charge ridiculously fast, have a virtually unlimited cycle life, they work better than batteries in extreme temperatures and they can also have a higher power density than batteries. In other words, they can transfer energy much faster than batteries. But Supercaps have one major disadvantage, they have much lower energy density and that is why batteries have wider applications. And this takes us to Pseudocapacitors. Think of pseudocapacitor as a bridge between batteries and supercapacitors as they maintain a lot of the same advantages as supercaps but have higher energy densities. But the challenge with improving energy density in pseudocapacitors is as you increase the thickness of the electrode usually made out of manganese oxide, the performance of the device drops rapidly because the ions have to move through more material. And this is where Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory comes in. On October 18th the lab reported that they developed an electrode out of 3D-Printed Graphene Aerogel that has the highest ratio of energy stored per unit of surface area ever recorded for a supercap. And by small chance you don’t know what graphene is, there are tons of videos out there about it but it’s simply a sheet of silicon one atom thick that scientist slap on anything and makes it 5 or 10 times better. Anyway, Lawrence Livermore has been fabricating electrodes this way for a while but the difference this time is Lawrence Livermore has greatly improved the graphene aerogel leading to this record-breaking performance. The way it works is the aerogel is printed as a scaffold composed of a tiny porous rod meaning it has a bunch of tiny holes and spaces. Then manganese oxide I loaded into the scaffold allowing for much more of it in the electrode without slowing down the ions. This is called mass-loading, and that is the record that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The electrode they built has 100 milligrams of manganese oxide per square cm, compared to typical commercial supercaps that have only 10 milligrams per square cm! Another benefit from this breakthrough is that it will allow supercaps to cheaper to produce. You see, manufactures have to stack thin layers of current collectors, made out of metal sheets coated with electrode material in order to increase energy densities without sacrificing performance and this increases material costs. It would take ten layers of current collectors to equal the energy density of the 3D printed Electrode. With this breakthrough, it appears that scientists are getting closer and closer to filling the gaps between batteries and supercaps. So, when can we expect to see supercaps in our devices? Not soon enough! All kidding aside, this is an exciting and promising breakthrough in portable energy storage technology to add to the long list of other exciting and promising breakthroughs and hopefully, in the next 10 years, we can see either battery replacing supercaps or solid state batteries actually come to market. Until then, we can dream of an incredible future….
Alright, that’s all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed your journey, if you did, please leave a like and subscribe. I am NeoScribe and I’ll see you on the next journey
Looks like 'a day of glory' for District 5 Councilmember David Luna with ribbon-cutting scissors in-hand in the photo opp that got featured in a press release from City of Mesa Newsroom yesterday:
Mesa celebrates expansion of Urbix Resources
into Falcon District
(Launch Point got re-located into empty space at The Mesa Center for Higher Education, the former police station, before city officials cooked-up plans for an ASU satellite campus.)
"Urbix was founded in 2014 and was the first client at the downtown Mesa location of LaunchPoint, the Mesa Technology Accelerator whose mission is to stimulate the establishment and growth of small technology-based companies and other businesses in the east valley. . . "
YOU CAN READ ALL OF WHAT THE POLITICIANS SAID in the press release, but here's the better read-out:
"This is a fantastic moment in our young history. To see how this relatively small facility of just 31,000 square feet will have such positive impact in the U.S.'s Energy Storage Critical Mineral Strategy, and also in the world, is super motivating and exciting,"
Urbix Resources Chairman and Co-Founder Nico Cuevas said.
"This is a huge milestone for us and we have plenty more work to do. We have an incredible team at Urbix and amazing support from the City of Mesa, the region and the state of Arizona." > In support of its eco-friendly approach, Urbix Resources was named Cleantech Open's Best Business Model in 2017.
Cleantech runs the world's largest clean technology accelerator program, with the mission to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with ideas to solve our greatest environmental and energy challenges. For more information about Urbix, visit www.urbixresources.com.
Sept 30 (Reuters) - Bass Metals Ltd BSM.AX :* SIGNED A STRATEGIC MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WIT URBIX RESOURCES LLC * MOU TO WORK OVER NEXT 180 DAYS TO ESTABLISH JV FOR PROCESSING OF BASS HIGH GRADE GRAPHITE INTO VALUE ADDED DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS _________________________________________________________________________________
ASX-listed Bass Metals and downstream graphite processor Urbix Resources have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to identify the optimum joint venture (JV) structure and product mix with a view of establishing a production facility in Madagascar.
Bass’ large flake dominated deposit is suitable for a broad range of downstream applications, the mining company release said on Monday.
Bass and Urbix would delineate terms for establishing a JV facility in Madagascar capable of producing a purified high-value graphite product, which would use Urbix’s propriety technology and Bass’ graphmada large flake graphite.
Urbix’s proprietary advanced technology includes environment- and cost-conscious purification methods that were not reliant on environmentally unsustainable hydrofluoric acid treatments, Bass noted.
> Urbix is currently engaged in building what will be one of the largest natural graphite purification facilities in North America. > Upon completion, the 9 450 km2 facility at Falcon Airfield in Mesa, Arizona will have the capability of purifying up to 24 000 t/y.
> The parties would aim to establish the JV in the next 180 days.
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