ADVERTISING with PtX: DISCOUNT promotion + + + Kazakhstan: ERG Group plans to use hydrogen and build wind and solar parks with an output of six gigawatts + + + Angola: Sonangol wants to export green ammonia to Germany from 2024 + + + Bernkastel: Hyzon Motors takes over Orten Group + + + India: Oil India and Homi Hydrogen agree on collaboration + + + Freiburg: Hydrogen filling station put into operation + + + Herzogenaurach: Schaeffler and Symbio produce bipolar plates + + + DISCOUNT promotion: Your ADVERTISING on the PtX portal
A selection of PtX topics summarized at the end of the week
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Eurasian Resources Group S.à rl (ERG), headquartered in Luxembourg, which is active in mining and as a raw material supplier, is examining the possible use of green hydrogen in its calcination kilns as well as the installation of a portfolio of wind and solar power plants with an output of up to six gigawatts Kazakhstan. The process technology of calcination is used, among other things, in the production of gypsum, cement or aluminum oxide to dewater or decompose minerals. According to the portal “International Mining“ERG managing director Alexander Machkevitch presented the company’s plans at the meeting of the Kazakh Foreign Affairs Council with a focus on “decarbonization of the economy”. ERG is researching how to replace heating oil in calcination kilns with green hydrogen. Kazakhstan plans to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions by 2022 percent per year between 2025 and 1,5, achieve a 2030 percent reduction by 15 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, the post said.
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Angola wants to become Germany's first supplier of green hydrogen from renewable energies. According to the “Wirtschaftswoche“, the state energy company Sonangol EP, together with the German companies Gauff GmbH & Co. Engineering KG and Conjuncta GmbH, signed a declaration of intent to build a hydrogen and ammonia factory in Angola. He is betting that green ammonia can be exported from 2024, the paper quotes the Angolan Minister for Mineral Resources, Petroleum and Gas, Diamantino Pedro de Azevedo. Initially, 280.000 tons of green ammonia should be produced for export, the article says. Rapid production after the construction of the factory in the port of Barra do Dande is possible because electricity from a hydroelectric power plant, water and infrastructure such as power lines are available. Gauff had already announced in March that it was examining a corresponding cooperation.
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The US manufacturer of fuel cell vehicles Hyzon Motors Inc. has purchased Bernkastel-Kues-based Orten Fahrzeugbau GmbH and its subsidiaries as well as Orten Electric Trucks GmbH. The Company 
is a manufacturer of truck and trailer bodies. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2022. With the takeover, three production facilities with 80 employees come under the roof of Hyzon. Its interest in the takeover lies primarily in the company's experience in the areas of electrification, retrofitting and body construction - according to Hyzon, "crucial elements" also for the construction of fuel cell vehicles. In addition, the location management has “extensive, long-standing customer relationships throughout Germany”. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. (Photo: Orten Bernkastel location. © Orten Group)
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The Indian state-owned company Oil India Ltd has signed an agreement to cooperate with Homi Hydrogen Pvt Ltd. According to the “Economic Times of IndiaThe companies want to cooperate, among other things, in the production of electrolysers in India. Homi Hydrogen is a joint venture between companies from Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Norway.
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Total Energies and H2 Mobility have put a hydrogen filling station into operation in Freiburg. This is available for vehicles with a pressure of 700 bar. During the current optimization operation, “final work is still being carried out in the background,” it says Message. The gas station technology comes from the French technology company Air Liquide SA. H2 Mobility Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG is responsible for the construction and operation of the hydrogen filling station. Its shareholders are Air Liquide, Daimler Truck, Hy24, Hyundai, Linde, OMV, Shell and Total Energies. The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) funded the construction with 850.000 euros.
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Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG and Symbio, a joint venture between Faurecia and Michelin for hydrogen technology, are establishing a joint venture to produce bipolar plates (BPP) for fuel cells. The Company will be by the end of the year 
begin operations under the brand name “Innoplate” and accelerate the production of “next generation” BPP for the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell market. The company is based in Haguenau, Alsace, France, and production is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2024. Initially, four million bipolar plates will be produced per year, and by 2030 around 50 million will be produced worldwide. The exclusive customers of the joint venture are Symbio and Schaeffler. Symbio has already received its first order as a supplier for a fuel cell system from an unnamed “leading vehicle manufacturer”. (Photo: The joint venture plans to employ more than 2030 people by 120. © Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG)
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