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The_Guruon Feb 10, 2016 12:13pm
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Northern news from 2014
Northern news from 2014This is a press release from Northern Graphite.
Northern Graphite Creates Open Source Battery Research and Testing Facility
Company targets better and lower cost batteries
November 10, 2014 – Northern Graphite Corporation (NGC:TSXV, NGPHF:OTCQX) announces that in partnership with Coulometrics LLC, it has opened a lithium ion battery (“LiB”) research and testing facility. The facility will focus on developing and testing improved natural graphite based anode materials for LiBs with the goal of improving battery performance, reducing costs and reducing the environmental impact of anode manufacturing. The facility will be available on normal commercial terms to any company, including Northern’s competitors, provided that all results are made publicly available and shared with the industry.
Gregory Bowes, CEO commented that: “We are happy to share our experience and our proprietary purification and coating technologies with our peers in order to increase transparency, reduce disinformation, and ultimately, make better and lower cost batteries.” He added that: “We are very comfortable that our deposit has the highest quality graphite and the highest yield of battery grade material but more than one new mine will be required to supply the electric vehicle market under even modest, conservative growth projections.”
Services provided by the facility will include characterization of natural graphite including SEM and PIXIE impurity analysis, micronization and spheronization, purification, coating, and coin and 18650 cell testing. It will be based at the Coulometrics facilities in Tennessee and will be independently managed by Dr. Edward R. Buiel Ph.D. Dr. Ulrich von Sacken Ph.D. has been retained to consult on the design of test cells and test protocols.
Guess he has changed his mind on working with peer companies. Since he stated where the work is done, and since the work done on a graphite project is proprietary to each graphite deposit there is no legal recourse. However, we may have to go through a lawsuit since Northern is desperate and will likely never get into production.