Saint Jean Carbon signs lease for Ontario facility
2021-05-11 09:43 PT - News Release
Mr. William Pfaffenberger reports
SAINT JEAN CARBON PROVIDES AN OPERATIONAL UPDATE
Saint Jean Carbon Inc. has provided updates to its operations, and research and development initiatives.
Mining and carbon sciences
The company has signed a five-year lease for an 8,800-square-foot facility at 107 Manitou Dr., Kitchener, Ont., commencing Aug. 1, 2021. The new location will be home to Saint Jean's pilot plant to develop environmentally friendly and sustainable mineral separation processes for mining and carbon sciences customers. In this facility, Saint Jean will optimize the air classification techniques for various types of graphite ore bodies. The engineering work to optimize the air classification process has commenced utilizing computational fluid dynamics tools. The predictions from the engineering simulations will reduce lead time to develop the processes for high-purity refinement of graphite for energy storage applications. In addition, this plant will house existing equipment consisting of primary and secondary crushing equipment, flotation processes, and jet milling machinery.
Solid Ultrabattery acquisition
Subsequent to the TSX approval of the Solid Ultrabattery acquisition, Saint Jean has now initiated a search for a suitable location to house its new battery research and development, and prototype facility. On April 26, 2021, Saint Jean engaged the services of ARC Engineering Inc. to perform preliminary site assessments of several potential locations as it relates to permitting and commercial scale manufacturing operations. A decision to move forward with a lease will be announced shortly.
As Saint Jean prepares for commissioning its new battery R&D and prototype fabrication facility, the necessary long lead battery prototype equipment is currently being sourced. This equipment will be required to fabricate small batch runs of battery electrolyte and perform assembly of pouch cells that will be used for development and testing.
Research and development collaborations with academia
On Feb. 1, 2021, Saint Jean signed a contract research agreement with the University of Western Ontario to further develop advanced graphene-based products with special luminescent properties for a DNA biosensor. The continuation of this research is in the late stages of a multiyear effort with Western to commercialize graphene-based sensing products.
Dr. Jin Zhang, a leading researcher at Western, say: "This project is to develop a portable sensor using advanced luminescent graphene-based nanostructures for quickly evaluating single-strand DNA. This advanced, cost-effective and user-friendly DNA sensor can be utilized in a wide array of applications ranging from early stage disease diagnosis in medicine to the food industry."
About Saint Jean Carbon Inc.
Saint Jean is a publicly traded carbon science company, with specific interests in energy storage, green energy creation and green mining methods, with holdings in mining claims in the province of British Columbia in Canada.
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