Trinseo Portfolio Of EV Battery Solutions To Maximize Mobility On Display At Battery Show Europe
Trinseo (NYSE: TSE) will showcase its EV battery solutions at The Battery Show Europe in Stuttgart, Germany, from June 18-20, 2024. The company will highlight its innovative lightweight thermoplastic battery casing and VOLTABOND™ water-based latex binders. The thermoplastic casing offers recyclability, enhanced performance, and design flexibility, while the VOLTABOND™ binders improve battery life, charging speeds, and overall performance. The thermoplastic casing uses the Direct Long Fiber Thermoplastic (DLFT) molding process, which allows for shorter production cycles and increased energy efficiency compared to metal casings. Additionally, a dedicated battery binder lab has been opened in Rheinmunster, Germany.
- Introduction of innovative lightweight thermoplastic battery casing for EVs.
- Thermoplastic casing offers recyclability and comparable performance to metal casings.
- Increased design flexibility and shorter production cycles with DLFT molding process.
- VOLTABOND™ water-based latex binders enhance battery life and charging speeds.
- Dedicated battery binder lab opened in Rheinmunster, Germany.
- Possible initial high cost of transitioning from metal to thermoplastic casings.
- Uncertain market acceptance and adoption rate of the new technologies.
High Performance Battery Binders, New Lightweight Thermoplastic Battery Casing Offer Enhanced Performance, Recycling Opportunity and Efficiency
- Innovative, lightweight thermoplastic battery casing enables recyclability, comparable performance characteristics of metal casing and short production cycle times as compared to metal casings
- VOLTABOND™ Water Based Latex Binders enhance battery life, charging speeds, range, and overall performance
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Dedicated battery binder lab opens in Rheinmunster,
Germany
The thermoplastic battery casing that will be showcased is produced using the Direct Long Fiber Thermoplastic (DLFT) molding process. This gives EV OEMs the option to move away from more expensive heavy rigid metal casings to high performance thermoplastic trays and covers, without compromising performance or protection. It also allows for shorter cycle times for high volume manufacturing, part toughness, along with structural flexibility and greater design freedom for complex part geometries. Lighter weight casing helps increase energy efficiency, and range in EVs as compared to metal casings. And using high performance thermoplastic offers increased design flexibility as compared to metal casing for innovative functional integration while providing electric insulation, heat insulation and fire resistance the industry demands.
“To us, the same principles of innovation, science, engineering, and design that define the external aesthetics of an electric vehicle, also apply to the internal components,” said Chief Technology Officer Han Hendriks. “In addition to the benefits of weight reduction, our thermoplastic casing material is available in grades containing recycled polycarbonate content produced by our in-house PC dissolution technology.”
Also on display is Trinseo’s VOLTABOND™ aqueous-based anode binder that binds the graphite and conductivity agent powder together and onto the foil current collector of a battery. VOLTABOND™ binders provide high peel strength, low DCIR and low re-bounce. In addition, its unique chemical structure enhances battery life by offering resistance to electrolyte dissolution.
“By improving electrical conductivity, structural integrity, cyclability, and energy density, with our VOLTABOND™ latex binders, we’re helping batteries last longer, charge faster, go farther and perform better,” added Hendriks. “At less than one percent of the battery’s weight, we can make a big impact on a number of performance characteristics that the industry is looking for.”
About Trinseo
Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a specialty material solutions provider, partners with companies to bring ideas to life in an imaginative, smart, and sustainably focused manner by combining its premier expertise, forward-looking innovations, and best-in-class materials to unlock value for companies and consumers. From design to manufacturing, Trinseo taps into decades of experience in diverse material solutions to address customers’ unique challenges in a wide range of industries, including building and construction, consumer goods, medical and mobility. Trinseo’s approximately 3,100 employees bring endless creativity to reimagining the possibilities with clients all over the world from the company’s locations in
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