BASF Shanshan Battery Materials (BSBM)— a Chinese firm owned by BASF (51%) and Shanshan (49%)— is expanding its lithium-ion battery materials capacity to meet growing demands from the electric vehicle (EV) industry
The expansion projects in Changsha, Hunan Province, and Shuizuishan, Ningxia Province, will enable BSBM to achieve 100kt annual capacity for cathode active materials (CAM).
The new production lines are designed with high flexibility to produce CAM materials for lithium-ion batteries from high-nickel and ultra-high-nickel nickel-cobalt-manganese oxide (NCM) for polycrystalline and single crystalline, to manganese-rich NCM products.
The new lines are equipped with energy recovery technologies including off-gas, waste heat and oxygen recycling— the first time that such technologies have been used in the battery industry, say BSBM.
The commissioning of the new lines will start from the fourth quarter of 2022.
