Cathode lively supplies (CAM) producer BASF has signed an settlement to buy land for a future CAM supplies manufacturing, battery metals recycling and refining website in Quebec.
The positioning is positioned beside the Saint Lawrence River in Bécancour. In line with BASF, the location will “depend on aggressive hydropower to additional cut back the carbon footprint of its merchandise in comparison with the trade common.”
BASF says the location “permits for ample area to broaden [production] as much as 100 kilotons of CAM per 12 months.” It additionally has “potential for totally built-in precursor cathode lively supplies (PCAM) provide,” and shall be “effectively linked to BASF’s international steel sourcing community with provision for a nickel and cobalt intermediates base steel refinery and recycling of all battery metals (together with lithium).”
BASF says, topic to vital approvals, challenge commissioning is anticipated to start in 2025.
Supply: BASF
