Highlights: Former senior EY Global Renewables Partner Josephine Bush has joined Vulcan as Non-Executive Director. Ms. Bush was a member of the EY Power and Utilities Board. She led and delivered the EY Global Renewables and Suistainable Business Plan and spearheaded a series of major Renewable Market Transactions, inlcuding Public Listings, Global Reorganisations and Cross […]
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Highlights: Vulcan has designed, built, commissioned and is now operating its Pilot Plant to demonstrate Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) from Upper Rhine Valley geothermal brine. Vulcan is using live geothermal brine from existing wells in its piloting programme for DLE and brine chemistry testwork. Vulcan is working with major suppliers, including DuPont, to test DLE […]
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Senior German chemicals industry executive Dr. Heidi Grön has joined Vulcan as Non-Executive Director. Dr. Grön is a chemical engineer by background with 20 years’ experience in the chemicals industry. Since 2007, Dr. Grön has been a senior executive with Evonik, one of the largest specialty chemicals companies in the world, with a market capitalization […]
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Highlights: Vulcan to use Circulor’s full traceability and dynamic CO2 measurement solution for Zero Carbon Lithium™ across the European Lithium-ion battery and Electric Vehicle (EV) supply chain, in a world-first for the lithium sector. Circulor’s customers include major European automotive manufacturers such as Volvo Cars, Daimler, Polestar and Jaguar Land Rover, which indicates OEMs’ growing […]
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Highligts Former Tesla Head of Battery and Energy Supply Chain, Annie Liu, has joined Vulcan as Non-Executive Director. Ms. Liu led and managed Tesla’s multi-billion-dollar strategic partnerships and sourcing portfolios that support Tesla’s Energy and Battery business units including Battery, Battery Raw Material, Energy Storage, Solar and Solar Glass, including raw materials sourcing efforts such […]
Read moreHighlights: Julia Poliscanova to join Vulcan as special advisor to the Board. Ms. Poliscanova is a Senior Director with the EU’s Transport and Environment (“T&E”). She has been instrumental in shaping policies around EU vehicle CO2 standards & sustainable batteries, heading T&E’s vehicles programme since 2019. This recently culminated in the EU CO2 battery regulations […]
Read moreHighlights: Vulcan has collected a bulk (10,000 litre) brine sample from a recently drilled geothermal well in the Upper Rhine Valley within 6km of Vulcan’s Ortenau Resource and license area. The bulk brine sample returned a high grade of 214 mg/L Li (n=1 analysis) and will be used in Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) piloting test […]
Read moreHighlights Vulcan will be collaborating with DuPont Water Solutions, a leader in water filtration and purification, to test and scale up Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) solutions for Vulcan’s world-first Zero Carbon Lithium® extraction process. DuPont will leverage its portfolio of proprietary Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) products to assist Vulcan with input and test-work during Vulcan’s […]
Read moreHighlights: Binding agreement signed to acquire 100% of geothermal subsurface consultancy company GeoThermal Engineering GmbH GeoT). GeoT has a highly credentialed, world-leading scientific team with over a century of combined expertise in sub-surface development of geothermal projects, from exploration to production drilling. Acquisition is part of Vulcan’s plans to accelerate its Zero Carbon Lithium® project […]
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