The Faraday Battery Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, has awarded the High Value Manufacturing Catapult £12m to deliver a battery materials scale up facility through its centres CPI and WMG.
The Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC) is enhancing battery scale-up support in the UK with a new facility that will give companies access to state-of-the-art materials synthesis and processing equipment. The funding is part of a co-investment strategy between the FBC and the HVM Catapult, aligned to a common strategic vision for the UK battery scale up ecosystem in order to support the development of a battery supply chain in the UK.
The next generation of battery technologies are critical to the green energy transition and a major opportunity for UK manufacturing.
The Advanced Materials Battery Industrialisation Centre (AMBIC), which will be delivered by the HVM Catapult, will provide innovation capability for the synthesis and processing of immediate and next generation battery materials. It adds to the growing open-access scale up capability being delivered by the FBC which includes the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre and it’s new £36m Flexible Industrialisation Line.
The £12m facility will be delivered by CPI and WMG, two of HVM Catapult’s seven centres of innovation. CPI’s expertise in chemicals processing and WMG’s cell development capabilities will be brought together to allow companies and researchers to scale their innovations from the laboratory to commercially relevant scale and enable “powder to cell” support.
