Peak Energy selected a 183,000-square-foot Sacramento facility for up to 4 GWh of annual sodium-ion storage-system capacity. The company plans to invest up to $71 million, create roughly 240 jobs, and begin production and shipments in the first quarter of 2027.
BD announced a partnership with the U.S. government that directs $3 billion of a broader multiyear U.S. investment toward manufacturing expansion at strategic domestic sites. The company said the plan would add approximately 5 billion essential medical consumables annually to U.S. production, lift its domestically supplied share to roughly 80 percent, and make all BD needles used in America domestically with American-made steel.
■BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)★NJFranklin Lakes
Smackover Lithium amended its binding Trafigura agreement to add an optional 4,000 metric tonnes per year of battery-quality lithium carbonate, bringing possible customer commitments for the South West Arkansas project to 20,000 tonnes per year. The partnership says the offtake workstream is complete while financing and a final investment decision remain pending.
Vulcan Elements was selected to supply domestically produced neodymium-iron-boron magnets for the Army's SkyFoundry initiative to manufacture small drones in Pennsylvania.
The Elmet Group signed a long-term agreement to take more than 1,000 metric tonnes of tungsten concentrate per year from Tungsten West's Hemerdon mine. The material is intended for conversion and delivery into Elmet manufacturing operations in Maine, Michigan, and Ohio.