Vision

Our vision is to make battery manufacturing sustainable.

Why is it important?

The trend towards electric mobility has only just begun, and the demand for battery production capacity for high quality cells is growing at an unprecedented rate – 35 new plants are planned in the EU alone by 2030, while global capacity will increase fivefold over the same period.

Problem

Cell finishing is the last of the three main steps in battery production, after electrode production and cell assembly. It currently takes up to two weeks, has a scrap rate of up to 20%, consumes 30% of the total energy required to produce the battery cell and yet provides very little data that can be used to improve the process..

It is a major bottleneck in battery production today.

What we do

Our vision is to dramatically improve the performance of the cell finishing process by improving measurement capabilities, efficiency and process control. Broadly speaking, we want to make cell finishing intelligent:

• Innovative smart sensoring
• Continuous data analytics
• Individualized process control

This

• reduces process time from up to 2 weeks to approx. 48 hours
• improves cell quality and minimizes scrap rate
• accelerate the ramp up of new chemistries
• enables manufacturers to tailor cells to customer needs

About us

We are not dreamers, idealists or recent graduates.

We are a team of experienced industry professionals with relevant scientific training and over 30 years of experience in the field of batteries.

We are based in beautiful Saxony, Germany.

Paul Büschel

15+ yrs. battery experience

Hardware lead engineer for cell finishing equipment at Thyssen Krupp Automation Engineering

PhD in electrical engineering focusing on Li-Ion battery diagnosis

Thomas Günther

15+ yrs. battery experience

Software lead engineer for cell finishing equipment at Thyssen Krupp Automation Engineering