CHARGE - Customisation, High-speed, Automation, Robust, Green, Efficient

2020年，Avocet电池材料公司（ABM）开始了一项使命，即建立欧洲第一个用于制造锂离子袋式电池片的试验工厂和卓越研发中心。ABM是Avocet Steel Strip Ltd的姐妹公司，Avocet Steel Strip Ltd成立于25年前，已经得到了Project ULTRA的支持，这是APC16轮融资的一部分。到目前为止，该项目已经从概念到规划和执行，现在已经准备好制造标签并推动标签格式创新的边界。作为CHARGE项目的一部分，ABM将设计和建造一条新的生产线，以提高生产效率，并在24个月内加快我们在电池材料路线图上的进展。该项目将有助于在英国建立关键电池组件的本地化供应链，并帮助该行业蓬勃发展。CHARGE项目的成果将使ABM从试点生产线设施发展到具有可验证的快速扩展能力的企业，使ABM能够为客户提供更低的成本，并为英国和更广泛的欧洲锂离子电池行业提供可靠的大批量和本地化的电池组件来源。

In 2020 Avocet Battery Materials (ABM) embarked on a mission to set-up Europe's first pilot plant facility and R&D Centre of Excellence for the manufacture of Li-ion pouch-cell tabs. ABM is the sister company of Avocet Steel Strip Ltd, a company established over 25 years ago and already supported by Project ULTRA, part of the APC16 round of funding. The project to date has moved from concept through planning and execution and is now business ready to manufacture tabs and push the boundaries of innovation on tab format.As part of Project CHARGE ABM will design and build a new production line to improve manufacturing efficiencies and accelerate our progress on the battery materials roadmap by 24 months. The project will help establish a localised supply-chain of critical battery components in the UK and help the industry flourish.The outcome of Project CHARGE will take ABM from a pilot line facility to an enterprise with demonstrable rapid scale-up capabilities allowing ABM to offer lower costs to customers and provide a reliable high volume and localised source of battery components for the UK and wider European Li-ion battery industry.