NORDIC BATTERY THURSDAYS

NORDIC BATTERY THURSDAYS

NEXT NORDIC BATTERY THURSDAY 2022: REFINING OF BATTERY MINERALS AND PREPARATION OF BATTERY CHEMICALS

– November 16th, 8:00-10:40 CET // 9:00-11:40 EEST

The Nordic battery collaboration is anchored at the ministerial level and operationalized by our municipalities, research institutions, clusters as well as the individual companies.

In our next “Nordic Battery Thursday”, the Nordic trade and investment agencies Business Finland, Business Sweden and Innovation Norway together with the European Battery Alliance cooperate with Kokkola Material Week’s GeoKokkola session, which focuses on the refining of battery minerals, preparation of battery chemicals, and new solutions for circular economy. The session can be followed as a live stream or attended on-site in Kokkola, Finland. Please note that this session will not be recorded.

Kokkola Material Week is an annual, international chemical industry, bioeconomy and battery technology event. The Kokkola Material Week program is available on the event’s website. Note that the Opening Seminar starting at 12:00 CET // 13:00 EEST on Nov 15th will be conducted in English and is also available for both streaming and on-site attendance.

To attend the GeoKokkola session, please register here.

The agenda of the ”Nordic Battery Thursday” goes to GeoKokkola session (updated here):

9:00 GeoKokkola Opening by Olli Breilin, Director, Geological Survey of Finland

9:05 Focus on raw and active materials for the European battery industry by Thore Sekkenes, Director, European Battery Alliance

9:25 Sustainable investment in critical raw materials by Olli Salmi, European Raw Material Alliance

9:45 SEEL – The new test centre for research and development on electromobility by Martin G. H. Gustavsson, Research Director, SEEL

10:05 Finland as a destination for a battery Gigafactory by Axel M. Thorsdal, SVP Project Development, FREYR Battery

10:25 Break

10:40 Sustainability in non-ferrous metals refining by Justin Salminen, Boliden Kokkola

11:00 Sustainable, locally sourced bio-based anode material by Otto Kivi, Senior Business Development Specialist, Stora Enso

11:20 Mining Finland is promoting export of Finnish mining technology by Lasse Moilanen, CEO, Mining Finland

11:40 The GeoKokkola session ends

Date: November 16, 2022Time: @ 8:00 am - 10:40 amVenue: at Kokkala/onlineLocation: in Finland,

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