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Leclanché will evaluate Talga’s range of Swedish anode products
under the Talnode® banner, in its batteries with the intention to
develop commercial products for the lithium-ion battery industry

On the heels of the Innovate UK in- the trial and over three years. some public deals out. We have about 40
terest, Talga informed the market that a “They do numerous buses, trucks, non-public deals under non-disclosure
MoU with Swiss-based Leclanché to trial wind turbine power packs, etc; they don’t agreements, we have most of our devel-
Swedish lithium-ion battery anodes had only concentrate on EVs and really cover opment and commercial programmes
been entered. the whole spectrum of the sustainability working behind the scenes, so I think re-
Leclanché, a long-standing battery- shift to electrification through batteries. cently people have been starting to get
maker and leading provider of quality Our MoU is about supplying Sweden with it,” Thompson said.
energy storage solutions, will trial Talga’s essentially a European-based anode so- “Investors that got involved with Talga
Talnode® range of products for a period lution for European batteries; that’s what with the graphene also understand that
of up to six months. we are about,” Thompson said. they are not mutually exclusive battery
Thompson said Leclanché was making It can be hard keeping up with the products and there are synergies for both
a big shift towards greener, more sus- scope of Talga and its Talnode® prod- of them to come along at the same time;
tainable supplies for its batteries, which ucts, however, the company’s message there are economic advantages to that.”
are used for the electrification of some of is seemingly resonating in the market. Thompson said Talga had ticked the
the largest ferries in Europe. From mid-September to mid-October, necessary boxes for its strategy to be
The MoU includes indicative pricing on Talga’s stock had risen from 39c/share more clearly understood and wasn’t sur-
various volumes of Talnode® supply for to 52c/share, with Thompson indicat- prised there is a healthy number of ASX
ing time was well companies spread across Europe now
spent hosting a chasing similar downstream dreams as
webinar presen- Talga.
tation to explain “If other companies are having con-
exactly what the versations like we are with customers in
company was do- an automotive or battery-related context
ing. and are being told that they would prefer
“People seemed their supply to be out of Europe or North
to get our strategy America – essentially would Tier 1 juris-
a little better, with dictions –then maybe they are feeling the
the solid-state same pull that we are in operating from a
battery moves of European destination,” he said.
which Leclanché “If it is done in the right part of Europe
is part of, they and in the right way it offers advantages
can see that con- in the security of supply chain that the
tinuum in the way modern battery consumer requires.”
that works. We
Stage one of the Vittangi graphite project could be started are starting to get – Mark Andrews
by mid-2020

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