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Echion Technologies

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Echion is a leading battery materials company providing advanced technology to solve some of the biggest electrification and decarbonisation challenges. We specialise in the development and supply of lithium-ion anode materials based on niobium.

Our product, XNO® delivers lithium-ion battery performance highly suited for industrial applications that demand the highest productivity and lowest total cost of ownership.  Powered by XNO® means lithium-ion batteries that can safely fast charge in less than 10 minutes, maintain high energy densities even at low temperatures, and deliver high power across a cycle life of more than 10,0000 cycles.

Echion was born in the labs of the University of Cambridge Engineering Department in 2017. Now the company operates out of its state-of-the-art develop facilities in Sawston, Cambridge. With a team of 45 and growing, Echion is ready to support global industries in their transition to net-zero.

Opportunity at Echion

We are a team of passionate, materials scientists, chemical engineers, cell scientists, battery engineers, commercial and operational people committed to enabling the electric mobility revolution.

It is a fantastic time to join Echion. The company is successfully trading with its flagship XNO® product. We have big commercial ambitions and a super exciting roadmap of new products to develop.

We are looking for the best of the best problem solvers who are passionate about making an impact. Working at Echion is challenging but immensely rewarding.

WAE

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Fortescue WAE, Fortescue’s newest acquisition, specialises in advanced engineering and is a global forerunner in electrification and energy storage. Combining cutting-edge technological advances and the industry’s best engineers with precision and speed to market derived from the ultra-competitive environment of motorsport, Fortescue WAE is transitioning to a Global Tier 1 manufacturing company, helping to lead a global energy transition; driving progress to combat climate change.

Fortescue WAE’s operations will be distributed across 3 major sites in the United Kingdom to facilitate hundreds of millions of dollars in decarbonisation initiatives in the years ahead.

Rimac Energy

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We are a technology powerhouse that designs, engineers, and manufactures the world’s most advanced products, from hyper cars to grid storage solutions. Bytes to bolts, Rimac is where everything happens.

At Rimac Technology, we are on a mission to accelerate the pace of decarbonization across various industries through our cutting-edge electrification solutions. By launching Rimac Energy and introducing next-generation stationary Energy Storage Systems (ESS). we are at the front line of this effort with the aim of facilitating the transition towards a more sustainable planet.

Prosemino

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Prosemino supports, builds and creates start-ups to tackle the net-zero challenge. We focus on electrochemical clean energy technologies that are critical to a sustainable energy system, including hydrogen, energy storage and advanced materials. Through co-founding start-ups, we accelerate the development and commercialisation of technologies by providing our lab space, pre-seed capital and in-house technical and business mentoring.

Elysia

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Elysia is a world-leading battery intelligence offering from Fortescue WAE, bringing over a decade of battery expertise to the automotive, micro mobility and battery energy stationary storage markets. Elysia’s state-of-the-art embedded and cloud-based products provide customers with unprecedented access to battery insights, and the ability to manage, optimise and enhance performance across the battery’s entire lifecycle.

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

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Benchmark is the world’s leading independent intelligence provider for the lithium-ion battery, electric vehicle and energy storage supply chain. Through our offering of market price assessments, forecasting and advisory services, Benchmark enables the biggest decisions of the energy transition. Benchmark’s price assessments are used to settle battery supply chain contracts and our lithium prices are the industry’s benchmark and reference pricing. Our forecasting services are used by industry, government and financiers to make multi-billion-dollar decisions on supply contracts, infrastructure investment and policy. Based in London and established in 2015, Benchmark is the most influential and fastest growing company in the industry.

Agratas

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Agratas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. We design, develop and manufacture high-quality, high-performance, sustainable batteries applied to multiple use cases in the mobility and energy sectors, to match our customers’ requirements. We will accelerate the global transition to net zero by creating an industry-leading benchmark in sustainability. Our world-class gigafactories will be powered by purpose-built renewable energy plants. We will also embed circular economy processes throughout our value chain to reuse, recycle and recover materials back into production. We will serve customers in Passenger Vehicle, Commercial Vehicle, 2 and 3 Wheeler and Energy Storage Solution (ESS) industries, supplying state-of-the-art high energy density NMC and long lasting LFP battery cells. Agratas will also support its customers with the integration of cells into their applications, such as modules and packs. We have already secured two anchor customers, Tata Motors and JLR. They provide us with the scale to establish our global battery business. Agratas will be driven by our pursuit of green growth and technological progress. We will develop next-generation battery technologies at new R&D Innovation Hubs in India and the UK, collaborating with world-leading universities, research institutions and strategic partners. We are a scale-up business with a start-up mentality. Our name, derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Agra’, the world’s oldest language, stands for leadership. It reflects our ambition to be purpose driven, pioneering power for future generations.

Ionworks

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Ionworks is an innovative startup at the forefront of battery simulation for design, performance and lifetime prediction, and optimisation. Our mission is to revolutionise the battery simulation industry through groundbreaking solutions that leverage advanced physics-based numerical simulation, centred around our core open-source technology: PyBaMM.

Nyobolt

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Nyobolt’s world leading team of technologists have used a systems level approach in developing ultra fast charging, high power battery solutions. Using new materials, cell designs, efficient software control and power electronics, batteries can now be produced with a much faster charging time and more power at a smaller size. Nyobolt’s unique technology is manufacturable and scalable right now. It is safer and more efficient than alternatives, reducing operational risk and down time, as well as offering higher overall performance. Co Founded in 2019 by Professor Dame Clare Grey DBE, FRS and CEO Dr Sai Shivareddy, Nyobolt is unlocking the potential of battery technology to power innovations that can’t wait.

Anaphite

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Anaphite is a technology company with a unique chemistry-based approach to developing fully formulated cathode powders for dry coating. Anaphite has developed a proprietary compositing process to safely, effectively and efficiently combine cathode active materials (CAMs) with binder, carbon black and high aspect ratio carbons, such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene. This process produces homogeneous, well-structured Dry Coating Precursor powders that can be directly applied into a customer’s dry coating process at the electrode film formation stage. It enables Anaphite’s customers to unlock the cost and sustainability benefits of dry coating with no compromise in electrode performance.

Dry coating removes solvents from the electrode manufacturing process, removing the need for large and very energy intensive drying ovens. The benefits of dry coating over current state-of-the-art wet coating:

• Up to 30% less factory space required
• Up to 40% reduction in battery cell production cost
• Up to 30% energy reduction for cell production

CRU | Exawatt

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