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For the production of 4680 batteries in Texas
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PNT will be supplying its dry electrode equipment to Tesla, TheElec has learned.
The equipment will be used in the US carmaker’s Giga Texas facility for the production of 4680 batteries, sources said.
A dry electrode method doesn’t use N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) which is used to make a slurry out of various raw materials. Instead, they are deposited on the current collectors directly.
This allows the whole process of electrode formation to be shortened. In a wet method, the use of NMP requires the products to be dried at the latter stage of a 100m-long production line as they are inflammable.
Tesla has been using Saueressig’s dry electrode equipment so far.
PNT has been working closely with Tesla to make similar equipment. Tesla’s senior manufacturing equipment engineer Jon Redenius has been handling the project.
The South Korean equipment maker is expected to hit an annual revenue of 1 trillion won through the winning of such a large customer as Tesla. As of the first quarter, it had 1.6 trillion won in remaining orders.
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