{"id":191442,"date":"2023-03-15T14:50:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=191442"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:50:48","slug":"koura-firma-un-acuerdo-de-suministro-con-ascend-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2023\/03\/15\/koura-signs-supply-deal-with-ascend-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Koura firma un acuerdo de suministro con Ascend Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ascend Elements suministrar\u00e1 a Koura hasta 5.000 toneladas de carbonato de litio reciclado al a\u00f1o. Koura utilizar\u00e1 el carbonato de litio reciclado en materiales de bater\u00edas de iones de litio para los mercados estadounidense y europeo, incluido el hexafluorofosfato de litio (LiPF6), una sal electrol\u00edtica clave.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>El acuerdo de suministro con Ascend Elements permitir\u00e1 a Koura producir material suficiente para apoyar la producci\u00f3n de m\u00e1s de un mill\u00f3n de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos al a\u00f1o, seg\u00fan el comunicado. Sin embargo, el volumen de suministro de hasta 5.000 toneladas anuales es la \u00fanica indicaci\u00f3n del acuerdo. No se menciona el inicio previsto de la entrega ni el periodo de entrega acordado (ni la cantidad total).<\/p>\n<p>Ascend Elements, con sede en Westborough (Massachusetts), ha desarrollado su propio proceso de reciclaje de bater\u00edas, que la empresa denomina hidro-c\u00e1todo. Se trata de un proceso de s\u00edntesis directa de precursores que permite procesar directamente la materia negra de las bater\u00edas recicladas de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos para convertirla en nuevos materiales cat\u00f3dicos, sin el habitual paso intermedio de dividir hidrometal\u00fargicamente la materia negra en materiales individuales para producir despu\u00e9s nuevos materiales cat\u00f3dicos.<\/p>\n<p>Como <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2022\/08\/03\/ascend-elements-fabricara-materiales-para-pilas-en-kentucky\/\">La primera f\u00e1brica de Ascend Elements<\/a>, denominado Apex 1, no est\u00e1 previsto que entre en funcionamiento en Kentucky hasta finales de 2023, por lo que es poco probable que las entregas a Koura comiencen antes de 2024. Ascend Elements ya ha firmado un acuerdo de principio con Honda, pero a\u00fan no existe un acuerdo de suministro vinculante.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ascend Elements suministrar\u00e1 a Koura hasta 5.000 toneladas de carbonato de litio reciclado al a\u00f1o. Koura utilizar\u00e1 el carbonato de litio reciclado en materiales para bater\u00edas de iones de litio.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":191380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[26177,10230,13682,10040,27715,4391,13169,2968,13946,609],"class_list":["post-191442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-ascend-elements","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-europe","tag-koura","tag-lithium","tag-raw-materials","tag-recycling","tag-suppliers","tag-usa"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>Koura is a subsidiary of the chemical company Orbia, which specialises in fluorinated solutions. Orbia is active in the sectors of Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluorinated Solutions (Koura).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ascend Elements has been an ideal development partner for our Koura business, given our shared focus on renewable technologies and the massive opportunities for companies pioneering in batteries and energy storage,&#8221; said Sameer Bharadwaj, CEO of Orbia. &#8220;Our partnership with Ascend has accelerated our material innovation activities as we work to advance life around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Koura is leading the industry&#8217;s efforts to incorporate recycled content into materials for lithium-ion batteries,&#8221; said Ascend Elements CEO Mike O&#8217;Kronley. &#8220;By recovering lithium and other critical metals from used lithium-ion batteries and manufacturing scrap, we are keeping those materials out of landfills while also making EV batteries cleaner and more sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ascend-elements-to-supply-up-to-5-000-metric-tons-of-recycled-lithium-carbonate-annually-to-koura-orbias-fluorinated-solutions-business-301770406.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prnewswire.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kouraglobal.com\/ascend-elements-to-supply-up-to-5000-metric-tons-of-recycled-lithium-carbonate-annually-to-koura-orbias-fluorinated-solutions-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kouraglobal.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}