Project Grant DEMS0000017

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) provides $30,000,000.00 in funding to Boston Electrometallurgical Corp (doing business as Boston Metal) to support the project "BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW (BIL) - CHAMPION: CHROMIUM ATR METALLURGY WITH PLASMA MELTING AND HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING OF NEAR-NET-SHAPE HIGH-TEMPERATURE ALLOY PARTS". The...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Albemarle U.S., Inc. a $147,126,520 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to retrofit a domestic manufacturing facility to produce up to 50 metric tons per annum of lithium metal anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. This project, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, aims to support the production of materials for the light and non-light duty...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) provides $331,194,045.63 to Group14 Technologies, Inc. to install, commission, and operate a 7,200 metric ton annual capacity silane manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, WA. The objective is to reduce foreign battery supply chain dependence by building robust U.S. silane manufacturing capacity to feed production of...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $174,853,241 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Nanograf Corporation. The objective of the project is to retrofit an existing structure and establish a state-of-the-art 2,500-ton per year Silicon Monoxide (SiO) anode manufacturing facility in Flint, Michigan. This project directly addresses the critical need for domestic battery material manufacturing,...

The Department of Energy awarded Cirba Solutions, LLC a $547,474,057.63 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to expand domestic lithium-ion battery recycling capacity and create a closed-loop domestic supply chain. The objective of the project is to increase Cirba Solutions' mechanical recycling capacity from 5,000 to 35,000 tons of batteries per year and develop novel integrated processing technologies...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Urbix, Inc., a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business, a $357,438,175 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253). The grant supports Urbix's commercial-scale production of lithium-ion battery anode-grade coated spherical purified graphite (CSPG) from natural flake graphite. The project aims to rapidly expand domestic capabilities for CSPG production to meet...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $114,494,918 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Li Industries, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The objective of the project is to establish a 10,000-tonne per annum lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cathode production plant in Pineville, North Carolina. This project aims to increase America's competitiveness in lithium-ion battery...

Am Batteries Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a solvent-free manufacturing process for lithium-ion battery electrodes. The goal of the one-year project beginning February 1, 2022 is to design, manufacture, and operate a continuous feed dry spraying system to optimize fabrication of thicker battery electrodes without solvents. This novel...

The Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $23,943,446.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The overall project objective is to construct a new U.S. manufacturing facility and validate a high-volume manufacturing line for flexible graphite bipolar plates (BPP), targeting a manufacturing capacity of 8M BPP per year or 20,000 stacks per year...

This federal Project Grant award of $198,679,760.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Enersys Advanced Systems Inc., a subsidiary of the battery manufacturer Enersys. The funding supports the establishment of a 4 gigawatt-hour lithium-ion cell production facility in Piedmont, South Carolina. The project aims to replace foreign-sourced materials with domestic supply,...