Materials start-up Easyl has opened an innovation and green production center in France to develop active materials for the industrial supply of zinc batteries.
The research and innovation center near Chambéry aims to develop three ready-to-use composites to enable zinc batteries’ optimisation and enhance performance of the technology using its materials.
The new premises will allow the company to launch a pilot production line next year to test them on a larger scale; it plans to reach the industrialisation phase in 2024.
The French firm develops electrodes for zinc-air and nickel-zinc batteries that are designed to improve performances according to the manufacturer’s electrochemical requirements.
Founded in 2017, the company has been carrying out, in collaboration with the LEPMI-CNRS laboratory, R&D work on active materials and additives.
Easyl has filed a patent on the manufacturing process for Calcium Zincate (active material capable of storing electricity).
Easyl has established partnerships with zinc battery manufacturers in order to carry out cross-tests between their technologies (zinc-air, zinc-nickel, zinc-manganese) and Easyl materials.