quartz news

All news on quartz (also known as silica and silicon dioxide): plants, production capacities, investments and involved companies.

28 April 2026

Elkem wins NOK 87m from Enova to scale biocarbon use in silicon production

Project (total NOK242m, 2026–28) will test industrial biocarbon across labs, pilots and five smelters to double biocarbon share (from ~25%) by 2030, potentially cutting up to 0.5 Mt CO2/yr

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