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",{"type":580,"attrs":717,"content":718},{"textAlign":49},[719],{"text":720,"type":585},"The company is now expanding its US operations to benefit from IRA subsidies. Apart from its site in Tennessee, it has two more planned in South Carolina and Bowling Green, Kentucky. ",{"type":580,"attrs":722,"content":723},{"textAlign":49},[724],{"text":725,"type":585},"The Bowling Green cell project is partly owned by Mercedes-Benz, which will buy cells from the AESC and Umicore’s partnership to power its sixth generation of BMW’s eDrive range. ",{"type":580,"attrs":727,"content":728},{"textAlign":49},[729],{"text":730,"type":585},"The partnership between AESC and the German automaker, announced in October 2022, is a move by AESC to widen its client base beyond its primary customer Nissan. 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Under the agreement, Umicore will provide AESC, bought by Chinese battery producer Envision in 2018, with high-nickel cathode active […]",[743],{"slug":568,"name":569,"content":744},{"job_title":571,"image":745,"bio":574,"linkedin":575},{"filename":573},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"a855ebb6-4822-4acc-91ba-ee8584f0be32\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[749,752],{"slug":750,"name":751},"batteries","Batteries",{"slug":587,"name":300},"private",{"id":49,"alt":755,"name":756,"focus":756,"title":755,"source":756,"filename":757,"copyright":756,"fieldtype":758,"meta_data":759,"is_external_url":51},"Aerial picture of the site location and future construction site of Umicore battery materials gigafactory in Loyalist, Ontario, Canada - taken in September 2023.","","https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/6e1e9b2415/bm-umicore-loyalist-hires.jpg","asset",{"alt":755,"title":755,"source":756,"copyright":756},"Oct 20, 2023","20th October 2023",[],[],1788535199811]