Blackstone Battery production capacity increase tenfold

Blackstone Technology will increase manufacturing capacity tenfold to 500 MWh per annum by 2022 for Li-ion batteries, which contain 3D-printed battery electrodes, at Blackstone’s Döbeln site in Saxony. The company recently signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Triathlon Batteries GmbH, a German manufacturer of battery systems for industrial trucks, to supply 3D printed battery cells with several 100MWh per year. In addition, there are further LOIs with customers spanning marine applications, e-motorcycles, e-commercial vehicles and e-buses, which in total have a combined value of approx. EUR 184 million.