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EcoGraf Limited: Sustainability Focus Drives Value for Australian BAM Facility - Seite 2

Steel manufacturing currently ranks first when it comes to polluting emissions and global efforts to reduce emissions is expected to lead to new cleaner supply chain materials. EcoGraf is positioning its product development program to support changes in manufacturing methods, like the move to hydrogen generated steel manufacturing.

In addition to greenRECARB, product development initiatives include superBAM, an enhanced lithium-ion battery performance material and ecoCEM, a cathode enhanced material for the cathode and alkaline battery market.

Water Recycling

The Kwinana-Rockingham plant is designed to process water from partly treated effluent from one of the Government's wastewater treatment plants. This water will be treated to produce high quality demineralised water used in the purification plant.

Final design of the feed and wastewater streams will also allow recycling of a significant proportion of the wastewater with the precipitation of a final gypsum rich product suitable for use as a soil enhancer.

Renewable Energy

Existing renewable energy options are being evaluated to maximise the renewable content to meet long term CO₂ and sustainability targets mandated by the European Union (EU).

It is expected that the energy mix at Kwinana will include solar and the waste to energy plants currently under construction.

Carbon Emissions Management

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology for the EV automobile industry is a topic of increasing importance that will ensure raw material supply chains meet rigorous standards applied by the EU and which are being adopted by the Australian Government.

LCA studies consider all the environmentally significant processes throughout the life cycle of vehicles, including raw material extraction and recycling from end of-life treatments.

The Company has developed models to support the total life cycles and is working with a European EV automobile manufacturer to provide inputs for their internal LCA models.

EcoGraf(TM) Battery Anode Material facility, located in the Kwinana-Rockingham Industrial Zone, will be the first of its kind to be constructed outside of China, providing a new supply of sustainably produced, high quality and cost competitive purified spherical graphite for the lithium-ion battery market.