PRESS RELEASE
December 3, 2019 – Multi-award-winning Australian technology company Calix Limited (ASX: CXL) has announced it will be joining the $150m Future Battery Industries Co-operative Research Centre (“FBI-CRC”).
Calix has been invited to join the FBI-CRC as a key participant given the role its technology could play not only in developing advanced battery materials through its $2.7m proprietary electric reactor BATMn, but also in improving extractive mineral techniques such as Lithium from Spodumene ore.
The FBI-CRC is the largest and most ambitious battery development program in Australia. With $25m in Australian Government support, and the remainder from core industry participants such as BHP, Tianqi Lithium and Galaxy Resources, the ambition of the FBI-CRC is to position Australia as a world leader in innovative energy minerals extraction, processing and upstream battery storage technologies as well as how batteries are used in cities and regions.
Membership of the FBI-CRC comes on top of Calix’s participation in the Australian Research Council $6.5m StorEnergy industrial innovation training centre (announced August 2018), the EU Horizon 2020 €3.9m Polystorage (Polymers for Next Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage) program and the Calix-led $9.4m CRC-P for Advanced Hybrid Batteries (announced August 2019).
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