Dear all,
This month, mining investments are further in the spotlight. Blackrock urges investors in mining to think long term (Mining.com). Stellantis invests in a lithium mine in Argentina (Mining.com). The first primary vanadium mine project just approved in the US will provide 50% of US demand (Mining weekly). Regarding uranium, the sector seeks to fill the supply gap (Mining.com). As for Europe, the Critical Raw Materials Act is now in force (EU) and European companies are exploring ways to boost the supply of rare metals (Reuters).
Lots of progress in the scientific realm : Solar floating projects at University of Cambridge, a screening strategy for developing thermoelectric interface materials presented in Science, rare metal that could offer revolutionary switch for quantum devices at University of Bristol, AI for new materials at GoogleDeepMind, crystal growth of modern technological materials at University of Michigan and electronics made more sustainable in Nature Materials.
Regarding sustainability initiatives, we selected 5 initiatives this month: a method to directly harness sun’s heat to split water and generate hydrogen at MIT, broadening markets served by polypropylene recycling at Berkeley, micro wind turbines as a solution to green energy in tight urban spaces with the French Aeroleaf technology, a global treaty to solve plastic pollution proposed by CSIRO and a long term supply deal based on recycling between Redwood and Toyota.
Additionally, 17 of our Start-Up alumni were in the news this month: a few partnership announced or ongoing (Basquevolt - Spain with Siemens and Telefónica, Graphene Manufacturing Group – Australia, with Rio Tinto), a scale-up (Zeta Energy – USA), a lot of exciting press articles as usual (ANTHRO Energy - USA, BRIMSTONE ENERGY - USA, Carbios – France, CompPair – Switzerland, CYPRIS MATERIAL inc - USA, Graphene Manufacturing Group – Australia,INTROPIC MATERIALS - USA, MATERIALS ZONE - Israel, NANOMAKERS - France, SAFI Organics ltd - Kenya, TIAMAT ENERGY - France, UBIQD - USA, UBQ MATERIALS - Israel, Woodoo – France), and AEROSINT - Belgium being acquired by the German group Schaeffler.
