[Sino-French companies plan joint venture to build a new battery factory]On May 12, 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that China Xiamen Xiamen Tungsten New Energy Materials Co., Ltd. plans to establish a battery field laboratory with the French company Orano in Dunkirk, a port city in northern France. Joint venture with an expected investment of 1.5 billion euros and the creation of 1,700 jobs. Macron pointed out that Xiamen Tungsten New Energy's joint venture with Orano is complementary to ProLogium's factory because it will be upstream in the production of batteries for electric vehicles. Edit/Ma Xue
Recently, Shanxi Lu'an Chemical Machinery (Group) Co., Ltd. exclusively manufactured the first Jinhua furnace in China with a daily coal consumption of 3000 tons per furnace, which has been successfully put into operation in the Xinlianxin Chemical New Materials Project in Henan. The project is equipped with 2 sets of coal water slurry water-cooled wall gasification furnaces, Jinhua furnace, operating in one on one standby mode, with a gasification pressure of 6.5 megapascals and a total gas volume of 170000 standard cubic meters per hour, relying on bituminous coal to achieve efficient gasification conversion.Editor/Cheng Liting
On September 12, 2026, the world's largest salt cavern compressed air energy storage project, the Huaneng Jintan 2 × 350 MW salt cavern compressed air energy storage power generation phase II project, completed the complete start-up of two main units, with stable and reliable equipment operation, marking an important breakthrough in China's key core technologies and system integration capabilities in the field of large capacity salt cavern compressed air energy storage. Editor/Cheng Liting