If you happen to’ve received a UK firm that’s engaged on modern battery tech, test in with the funding physique UK Analysis and Innovation, which has launched a brand new £1.5-million competitors to help UK small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) working within the battery sector.

The competitors will give SMEs the chance to work with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), which was created to supply UK battery manufacturing scale-up and abilities for the battery sector.

The competitors is open to UK SMEs targeted on full battery cell improvement tasks, together with mixing and coating, calendering and slitting, to cell meeting, formation and ageing; and proving electrode manufacturing at scale, together with mixing and coating.

“Creating a home-grown cell provide chain is vital to the expansion of the UK’s battery business and the cornerstone of constructing an ecosystem which may help the institution of gigafactories within the UK,” mentioned UKBIC Enterprise Growth Supervisor Dr. Vishal Nayar. “This competitors will assist bridge the hole for these corporations who want to get on the scale-up ladder.”

“By giving SMEs working within the battery business the chance to make use of the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre’s state-of-the-art amenities at a decreased value, we hope to develop UK battery improvements that won’t in any other case get an opportunity,” mentioned Oyebola Bello, Program Supervisor on the Faraday Battery Problem. “We’re supporting that transfer from technological potential in direction of business functionality.”

The competitors will shut for entries on  April 4.  corporations ought to contact UKBIC at gross sales@ukbic.co.uk.

Supply: Battery Tech Hub