June 15, 2023: Nano One Supplies and Our Subsequent Power signed a joint improvement settlement to collaborate on the validation, qualification and manufacture of a North American provide of LFP cathode energetic supplies (CAM), the businesses stated on June 14.
CAM can be manufactured at Nano One’s Pilot plant in Candiac, Quebec for potential use in cells for Our Subsequent Power’s Aries and Gemini battery power storage programs.
Nano One stated it’s repurposing the Candiac website to make use of the patented One-Pot course of for pilot manufacturing of LFP CAM, with re-commissioning scheduled for the third quarter of 2023.
Dan Blondal, Nano One CEO and founder, stated that the companions purpose to develop a “sturdy and economically secure LFP battery provide chain that’s fragmented and differentiated in nature from market dominance overseas”.
Our Subsequent Power began manufacturing its Aries LFP battery pack earlier this yr.
The corporate can also be constructing its first battery cell manufacturing unit, ONE Circle, a 20GWh facility in Michigan that ought to start operations in 2024.
Nano One introduced in February that it had accomplished a major milestone in its cathode supplies and techno-economic modeling course of with an unnamed international automobile producer.