UK battery centre to be upgraded
The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre secures £38mln funding for facility upgrade.
The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) will scale-up its facility to support innovation projects for high-tech developers and battery users.
The centre will use the funding to install additional electrode equipment and a flexible 800m2 clean and dry industrialisation space for manufacturing process demonstration.
The funding, announced in November’s Autumn Statement, is being provided by UK Research and Innovation’s £610 million Faraday Battery Challenge, a national investment programme which is delivered by Innovate UK.
UKBIC also plans to develop advanced digital manufacturing capability to change the way data is analysed.
The new capability is expected to be operational during 2025 and is hoped to bridge the gap between UKBIC's existing volume-industrialisation line and kilogramme-scale demonstrator lines elsewhere.
'UKBIC’s flexible scale-up line, in addition to the new dedicated industrialisation space, and the introduction of digital manufacturing capability will further help position the UK and UKBIC as the place to go for battery development and scale-up,' says Tony Harper, Director of Faraday Battery Challenge.
