SAFELOOP Partner Yunasko Signs Strategic Graphite Supply MOU

We are pleased to announce the signing of a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between SAFELOOP partner Yunasko and Blencowe Resources Plc. The agreement foresees the supply of 500 tons per year of high-quality natural graphite from Blencowe Resources’ Orom-Cross critical minerals project to support next-generation energy storage applications.

Prior to its use within SAFELOOP activities (WP2 and WP6), the material will be further upgraded in Wheeling, Illinois (USA) by another SAFELOOP partner, American Energy Technologies Co. (AETC), enabling access to premium-grade graphite tailored for advanced energy storage systems.

Yunasko Executive Chairman Dr. Yurii Maletin commented:

“We are pleased to be working with Blencowe Resources to receive high-quality purified graphite from Orom-Cross natural resource for integration into Yunasko’s next-generation energy storage systems. Our testing, together with American Energy Technologies Co.’s purification and downstream processing work, confirms that Blencowe Resources’ natural graphite originating at the Orom-Cross mineral resource in Uganda provides material of particularly high suitability for these advanced applications.

Yunasko, a leader in high-power ultracapacitor and hybrid energy storage technologies, is driving meaningful innovation in the global energy storage market by delivering faster-charging, longer-life and higher-efficiency solutions. The use of premium purified graphite will further strengthen Yunasko’s ability to develop cutting-edge systems, and we look forward to a long and productive relationship as Blencowe moves towards first production.”

This collaboration highlights the growing industrial interest around the high-performance graphite material, an EU critical mineral, and reinforces SAFELOOP’s ambition to accelerate innovation and ensure a reliable path for commercialization across the supply chain of European battery and energy storage systems.