An Abbotsford tech manufacturing facility was the backdrop for an $8.6 million funding announcement from the province last week.
Anne Kang, minister of advanced education and skill training, and Ravi Kahlon, minister of jobs, economic recovery and innovation, were at Atlas Power Technologies for a tour of the operations. They are about the size of a coffee cup, and several packed together are about the same size as a car battery. They can be used quickly in emergency situations, and they’re created with byproducts of oil sands. Those materials are refined them to make high-grade, activated carbon, which is a necessary component of supercapacitors.
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