UK pilot plant for lithium iron phosphate cathode materials

Integrals Power has started production of its lithium-ion cathode materials in Milton Keynes, UK.

“The pilot plant capable of producing 20 tonnes a year, demonstrating that the technology will scale to volume production,” according to the company, which has proprietary nano-material lithium iron phosphate (LFP) and lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) intellectual property.

“We believe this is one of the first facilities of its kind in the UK, and is exactly the kind of state-of-the-art resource the UK battery industry needs in order to support the sustainable future growth of electromobility,” said company founder and CEO Behnam Hormozi (pictured). “We’ve designed the pilot plant from day one to manufacture different grades of LFP nano-materials to suit different applications – from long-range electric vehicles through to off-grid energy storage.”

The plant was designed in-house, and is modular to allow scaling to “volumes in the tens of thousands of tonnes”, it said.

Raw materials are sourced from European and North American suppliers.

The company has funding from multiple UK government grants.