Battery Passport Rules and What They Mean for Plants
The EU battery passport has one fixed point and a lot of moving parts. The fixed point is the date: from 18 February 2027, electric vehicle batteries, light means….
Sodium-Ion Battery Manufacturing: What Changes on the Line
For years sodium-ion sat in the category of promising chemistry that never quite arrived. That changed in the last eighteen months. CATL launched its Naxtra sodium-ion brand…
Scaling from Pilot Line to Gigafactory
Announcing a gigafactory is the easy part. The industry has seen a great many announcements, and a far smaller number of plants actually running at rate….
Two-Wheeler and E-Rickshaw Battery Pack Assembly in India
A battery pack in an electric car sits bolted into the floor, cooled by liquid, sheltered from the weather and rarely touched for years. A pack in an Indian electric scooter…
Battery Pack Traceability and MES Integration
A cell supplier calls to say one production lot may have a separator defect. Two questions follow immediately. Which of your packs contain cells from that lot, and where….
Pneumatic Butterfly Valves: Working Principle and Industrial Applications
Walk through almost any process plant and you will find pneumatic butterfly valves everywhere: on silo outlets, dust collection ducts, water lines…
Ploughshare Mixers: How to Select the Right Mixer for Your Process
Two ploughshare mixers with the same drum size can perform very differently. One blends a difficult formulation in a few minutes and empties clean. The other leaves…
Plough Shear Mixers: High-Performance Mixing for Industrial Applications
The tools inside a plough shear mixer look a lot like the blade of a farm plough, and they work in a similar way. As the shaft turns, each plough-shaped tool lifts material…
Paddle Mixers: Working Principle, Applications, and Benefits
Watch a paddle mixer run with the lid off and the first thing you notice is movement. Material is not just stirred, it is lifted, thrown, folded and dropped again…
Paddle Mixer Machines: Choosing the Right Industrial Mixing Equipment
Paddle mixers occupy a useful middle position in industrial mixing. They are gentler than ribbon blenders, faster than tumble blenders, and in twin-shaft….