Production starts at high-performance cathode pilot plant

It is anticipated that Integrals Power’s ‘bottom up’ approach to producing proprietary high-performance Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) and Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) [BH1] cathode active nanomaterials will help to accelerate the development of Britain’s domestic battery industry and help also to achieve its net zero ambitions.

The new facility has an annual capacity of 20 tonnes, which will be used primarily for evaluation by cell suppliers, battery and vehicle manufacturers worldwide.

The company believes that establishing manufacturing in the UK can reduce the carbon footprint of the domestic battery industry, enhance supply chain security and transparency, and mitigate geopolitical issues such as import tariffs on EVs and their components.

Integrals Power’s LFP materials have been assessed as 99.9 per cent [BH2] pure in a third-party analysis using X-ray diffusion technology to study attributes such as chemical composition and lattice structure of the molecules, key attributes to the performance of the material when built into battery cells.