![]() ![]() Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency through the Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy Technologies With Untapped Potential Program, Natron will install new cell assembly equipment in the Clarios Meadowbrook plant to enable mass production of sodium-ion cells for its customers in the industrial power market. Natron Energy Santa Clara, CA Posted: AugFull-Time Natron seeks a Senior Buyer Planner to carry out procurement activities. This similarity in manufacturing requirements enables Natron and Clarios to leverage a portion of the Clarios Meadowbrook lithium-ion facility for sodium-ion manufacturing, at a lower cost and faster time to market compared to building an entirely new factory. Under the terms of their agreement, electrodes and large format cells based on Natron’s proprietary Prussian blue electrode sodium-ion chemistry will be manufactured in the existing plant with workers using the same tools and equipment used for lithium-ion manufacturing. The original Clarios Meadowbrook plant was built as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Energy program and has produced automotive lithium-ion cells for the past decade. The company has said future applications for sodium-ion batteries may also include electric vehicles and grid energy storage.Įven before the work on the manufacturing plant gets underway, both companies say there are extraordinary advantages to their hook-up. ![]() In addition to effectively solving the supply chain issues associated with lithium batteries, they’d also be far less costly to produce. However, they have one great advantage over their lithium predecessors - sodium is naturally abundant almost everywhere, whereas lithium battery components like cobalt, copper, nickel and lithium itself are often difficult to source. Natron is seeking a collaborative Quality Assurance Engineer or Senior Quality Assurance. Sodium-ion batteries are rechargeable batteries analogous to the lithium-ion battery most people are already familiar with. Position Title: Engineering Intern or Co-Op Student Reports To. Natron Energy Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based maker of sodium-ion batteries, and Clarios International Inc., a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based maker of low-voltage advanced battery technologies, have agreed to retool the latter’s so-called Meadowbrook facility and start mass producing sodium-ion batteries there starting in 2023. A city perhaps best known today for being the home of the much-photographed Big Red Lighthouse that stands between the channel linking Lake Macatawa to Lake Michigan, will soon be home to the world’s first mass-scale sodium-ion battery plant. ![]()
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