Kyushu advances strategic investment in Taiwan’s ProLogium

Taiwanese solid-state battery developer and manufacturer ProLogium has announced a deepening of its long-term strategic partnership with Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power. 

Following ongoing collaboration across energy, next-generation batteries and related industrial fields, Kyushu Electric Power is now moving forward with a strategic investment in ProLogium, extending the relationship from industrial collaboration to strategic capital participation, ProLogium said in a press release.

The two companies have maintained ongoing engagement across next-generation battery technology, energy and industrial applications, as well as related commercialization opportunities, while jointly exploring the potential of next-generation batteries across a range of use cases. 

The companies are also continuing to explore the establishment of next-generation battery module manufacturing capabilities in Japan, combining ProLogium’s cell technology with local industrial resources to advance battery module applications for construction machinery and other electrification use cases in demanding operating environments where safety, environmental resilience and performance are critical, the press release said.

“We are grateful to Kyushu Electric Power for its long-standing collaboration with ProLogium,” Vincent Yang, Founder and CEO of ProLogium, said. “We look forward to building on this latest progress to broaden and deepen our collaboration with Kyushu Electric Power and to jointly explore commercialization opportunities for next-generation batteries across a wider range of energy and industrial applications.”