Battery Material

Chinese technology company Horizon and German thin-film specialist Leonhard Kurz have founded Horizon-Kurz New Material Technology GmbH which is based in Fürth, Germany.

Altech Advanced Materials has commissioned its pilot plant in Saxony and has already produced the first batches of the innovative silumina anode material.

U.S.-based battery developer Sila has started the ramp-up of its anode plant in the state of Washington. Regular operation is planned for 2025.

Vianode has received a loan commitment of 37.6 million US dollars from Norwayʼs state funding agency to expand research and development activities as well as production infrastructure.

SK ie Technology Co. (SKIET) has begun supplying separator film for battery cells to LG Energy Solution in North America. The contract is worth around 75.7 million US dollars.

In the Finnish city of Kotka, construction of a cathode material plant by Easpring Finland New Materials Oy has begun. It is scheduled to start production in 2027.

LG Chem is set to launch mass production of its precursor-free cathode materials – under the name LG Precursor Free (LPF) – in the first half of the year 2025.

Shanghai Putailai (PTL) has canceled its plans for the construction of a 1.3-billion-dollar anode factory with an annual capacity of 100,000 tons in Sweden.

Ascend Elements and the U.S. Department of Energy have agreed to cancel a 164-million-dollar grant for the production of cathode active material (CAM) in Kentucky.

Japanese mineral oil company Idemitsu Kosan intends to build a lithium sulfide plant for electrolytes for future solid-state batteries, first to be used in electric vehicles from Toyota.