India began its 5G auction at the end of July and will last for a few more days to complete. India’s Western states, including Maharashtra and Gujarat, are upping the ante to compete with Southern states for chip plants investments.

BASF Toda Battery Materials (BTBM), a Japan-based maker of cathode materials established by Germany-based BASF and Japan-based Toda Kogyo on a joint-venture basis, will expand production capacity for cathode active materials (CAM) used in lithium batteries, with the expansion to begin in fourth-quarter 2022 and the additional production capacity to come into operation in second-half 2024, according to Toda.

COVID-19 is a wake-up call for a new era of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activism. Both the coronavirus and the carbon atom are invisible, but their effects are not. They have different impacts around the world but they both hurt it in unexpected and significant ways.