Arkema partners on battery materials

Arkema has signed a memorandum of understanding with Senior, a specialist in battery separator technologies that it said “will accelerate the development, validation and industrial deployment of innovative material solutions for next-generation batteries in the fast-growing global new energy sector”. The two are already in a long-term strategic cooperation in this field.

They will combine Arkema’s expertise in advanced speciality materials, such as Kynar PVDF and Incellion acrylics, with Senior’s in separator design, manufacturing and large-scale industrialisation. Key areas of cooperation will include advanced adhesion technologies, controlled deposition and coating processes on electrodes, low-temperature cell assembly and emerging semi-solid battery manufacturing technologies.