Lithium companies marketing

Currently, several companies market lithium polymer batteries for use in, for example, phones. 

E. Norris, EMC The Global Lithium Company. Santiago, Chile Lithium Supply and Markets (LSM), 01/2009. 

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Although ethereal solutions of methyl lithium may be prepared by the reaction of lithium wire with either methyl iodide or methyl bromide in ether solution, the molar equivalent of lithium iodide or lithium bromide formed in these reactions remains in solution and forms, in part, a complex with the methyllithium. Certain of the ethereal solutions of methyl 1ithium currently marketed by several suppliers including Alfa Products, Morton/Thiokol, Inc., Aldrich Chemical Company, and Lithium Corporation of America, Inc., have been prepared from methyl bromide and contain a full molar equivalent of lithium bromide. In several applications such as the use of methyllithium to prepare lithium dimethyl cuprate or the use of methyllithium in 1,2-dimethyoxyethane to prepare lithium enolates from enol acetates or triraethyl silyl enol ethers, the presence of this lithium salt interferes with the titration and use of methyllithium. There is also evidence which indicates that the stereochemistry observed during addition of methyllithium to carbonyl compounds may be influenced significantly by the presence of a lithium salt in the reaction solution. For these reasons it is often desirable to have ethereal solutions... 

The reaction of lithium with methyl chloride in ether solution produces a solution of methyllithium from which most of the relatively insoluble lithium chloride precipitates. Ethereal solutions of halide-free" methyllithium, containing 2-5 mole percent of lithium chloride, were formerly marketed by Foote Mineral Company and by Lithium Corporation of America, Inc., but this product has been discontinued by both companies. Comparable solutions are also marketed by Alfa Products and by Aldrich Chemical Company these solutions have a limited shelf-life and older solutions have often deteriorated... 

M. Rajan, Press release. Lithium battery sales to reach 2.7 Billion by 2009, in reference to RGB-21 ON Lithium Batteries Materials and Markets, Business Communications Company, Norwalk, August 19, 2004. 

The excellent development of nonaqueous batteries (mostly lithium, metal based and Li ion rocking chair type batteries) created a market for the Li battery grade materials which are manufactured at high purity standards. These materials are manufactured by companies whose expertise lies in the production and distribution of the highly pure solvents and salts. Currently, a great part of... 

These lithium-ion batteries are quite effective and are presently produced at a rate of several millions of units per months, prevalently by Japanese manufacturing companies [20] and directed to the consumer electronics market where they have now assumed a prominent position [2]. 

In 1997, Toyota Motor Company launched electric hybrid vehicles into the world market, followed by Nissan and Honda a few years later. They were very popular because of the good fuel economy and the increasing interest in global environmental issue. Therefore, all of the car manufacturers worldwide accelerated their research and development for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technology. Although the batteries used for HEV by Toyota and Honda are nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries and they are major batteries in the field at present, the pressure for development is put on not Ni-MH but lithium because of the superior characteristics in power, weight, heat generation, and so on to Ni-MH. 

The Congo, Zambia, Canada, Morocco, and New Caledonia are considaed the main places of production of the cobalt ore. The main use of the cobalt ore was for aircraft superalloys, hard metal tools, magnets, catalysts, and pigments before the rechargeable lithium-ion battery was developed. Therefore, the cobalt oxide that could be used for batteries was low. However, the number of manufacturers producing the cobalt oxide recently has increased due to the expansion of the market In our company, various cobalt raw materials produced by 6-7 companies are always being evaluated. 

The basic concept of the currently popular lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) was developed in 1985 by Yoshino et al. from Asahi Kasei Corporation [4-6]. LIBs were first marketed by Sony Corporation in 1991, after which Sanyo Electric Company s batteries with graphite anodes were marketed in 1994 [7]. The capacity of LIBs around 1997 was more than 1.5-fold that when they were launched, and firam the point of view of battery design, increasing the capacity further was considered difficult. 

Lithium-ion batteries are the most popular rechargeable batteries—from zero market share in the battery market, in 1990, to a clear leadership in the current world sales [1]. Especially in the past decade, the production of lithium batteries has increased very fast [2]. Data of City Research for 2011 show that Japan and Korea are the major producers (both with 39%), while China is third with 14%. Other companies in North America and Europe have 8% of the global market [3]. The highest shares in the 2011 market were for Panasonic/Sanyo and Samsung SDI, each having 24% of the market LG Chemical and Sony followed with 16% and 8%, respectively. Other companies have shares below 5% [3]. Figure 23.1 presents selected manufacturers of components, cells and battery systems. As can be noticed, the majority of companies have headquarters in Asia. 

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