Lithium Australia NL Sustainability and Battery Recycling Strategy
VSPC cathode-powder manufacture
Raw materiale
Lichemicals
Lithium
Australia
NL
Recycling
Batteries
VSPC has spent 16+ years developing nano-powders, primarily for
use in batteries. Its unique, nanotechnology-based cathode-powder
production process is broadly applicable to most LIB chemistries.
VSPC assets include:
■ its R&D facility in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;
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intellectual property, including three families of patents, and
agreements to produce/commercialise cathode materials within
China.
As noted on page 17, VSPC technology can harness LP as a cathode-powder precursor, potentially reducing
the number of process steps required to create new LIBS from the application of Company-developed
extraction technologies to feed sources such as MMD recovered from Envirostream's recycling of EOL LIBS.
Battery manufacturers in China and Japan have been testing VSPC cathode powders during the past two
years. In China, that has led to a commercial arrangement with DLG Battery Co. Ltd ('DLG') to commercialise
an LFP product for the battery market in that country. Subject to performance hurdles being met, DLG will
grant VSPC preferred supplier status for the LFP powders DLG uses in its battery production.
VSPC has been acknowledged by the Australian federal government by way of a grant to investigate the use
of lower-cost materials (including recycled EOL battery products) in the manufacture of new LIBS, as well as
with funding to develop an ‘advanced nano-engineered battery for fast-charging catenary-free trams'.
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