{"id":502075,"date":"2022-07-01T10:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502075"},"modified":"2022-07-01T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:15:44","slug":"compass-minerals-and-lg-energy-sign-supply-agreement-for-battery-grade-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/compass-minerals-and-lg-energy-sign-supply-agreement-for-battery-grade-lithium\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass Minerals and LG Energy sign supply agreement for battery-grade lithium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solutions (LGES) said that it had entered into a non-binding deal for battery-grade lithium supply with Compass Minerals while negotiations for a final agreement were ongoing.<br \/>\nPrices of battery metals including lithium, cobalt and nickel have rallied to multi-year highs due to red-hot demand for electric vehicles (EVs).<br \/>\nCompass is the first US-based lithium producer to partner with the battery manufacturer as it looks to solidify its supply chain in North America to meet soaring demand for EVs, LGES said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solutions (LGES) said that it had entered into a non-binding deal for battery-grade lithium supply with Compass Minerals while negotiations for a final agreement were ongoing. Prices of battery metals including lithium, cobalt and nickel have rallied to multi-year highs due to red-hot demand for electric vehicles (EVs). Compass is the first US-based lithium producer to partner with the battery manufacturer as it looks to solidify its supply chain in North America to meet soaring demand for EVs, LGES said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}