Battery electrode supplier Ateios Systems has teamed up with materials and chemicals manufacturer Kodak to demonstrate a high-speed, solvent-free production process for the manufacturing of high-energy electrodes for EV batteries.
The system, powered by Atelos’s RaiCure platform, reaches a coating speed of 80 meters per minute, which the companies say is nearly three times faster than the industry-standard 30 meters per minute for fluorine-polymer-based electrodes.
The system achieves those speeds while enabling high-voltage stability and coatings greater than 5 mAh/cm² thick, producing electrodes suitable for synthetic graphite, lithium cobalt oxide (LCO), nickel manganese cobalt (NMC), and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery materials.
The process builds on Kodak’s legacy in high-precision coating and materials science, combined with Ateios’s fabless manufacturing model. Kodak’s pilot line supports widths up to 440 mm at speeds over 100 meters per minute. It is capable of producing more than 500 MWh of high-energy electrodes annually. Kodak’s full-scale production line handles widths of up to 1.5 meters at a speed over 100 meters per minute, exceeding the equivalent of 2 GWh of electrode capacity per year.
In the partnership, Ateios leads the development of electrode chemistries and integration processes while Kodak contributes its expertise in mass production that achieves multi-layer precision, in-line quality scanning and full IP and supply chain security. The companies state they can take new battery designs from lab concept to commercial-scale production in 2-3 months.
Ateios was awarded a $350,000 R&D and Superboost grant from the NSF Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York.
“Backed by a resilient supply chain, RaiCure delivers high-energy, high-quality, PFA-free electrodes at record-setting speed, giving battery makers the ability to build better batteries,” said Rajan Kumar, CEO and founder of Ateios Systems. “We’ve already secured multiple purchase orders and are shipping electrodes to battery OEMs in Asia and North America.”
Source: Ateios Systems
