Marubeni, a Japanese commodity trader, signed an off-take agreement in early January with Canada Lithium where the Marubeni will distribute 2, 000 tons of battery-grade lithium carbonate for three years with an option to increase distribution to 5, 000 tons.
SanDisk today also unveiled a new worldwide distribution channel, "SanDisk for Business, " which offers OEM and enterprise-grade SSDs to value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators and direct market resellers (DMRs).