SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – Toda America is scouting locations in Michigan and South Carolina to build a new lithium-ion battery cell production factory. Toda America wants to find a shovel-ready site, contingent upon winning a Department of Energy grant under the Recovery Act – Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative to be awarded in late July.
“Toda intends to be a catalyst for the development of the U.S. lithium-ion battery industry supply base,” said Toda America President Jun Nakano. “Having a local supply base is a key step in the development of a sustainable electric drive vehicle market in the United States.”
Growing the next-generation battery industry in the U.S. requires a robust, local supply chain and Toda’s proprietary process engineering and extensive manufacturing experience enables it to produce large quantities of high quality and low cost materials.
“Saft America and Saft Group are world specialists in the design and manufacture of high-tech batteries for industry,” said Tom Alcide, General Manager of Saft Specialty Battery Group.
“As a high performance leader, Saft has come to rely on our trusted providers to keep us in front of the technological curve. Toda America, a partner since the ’90s, produces a wide range of products relevant to the manufacture of lithium-ion power and energy cell components. Toda has been Saft’s primary supplier of cathode materials. Saft America is committed to driving future technological innovations in the production of Li-ion batteries. Because of its extensive product portfolio and excellent development capability, the Toda Group including Toda America is expected to be a crucial partner for our future development and the development of this industry.”
Toda Kogyo is a global leader in solid state chemistry of advanced materials, like high-quality iron oxides, numerous other inorganic compounds and built-to-specification products including cathode materials key to the advancement of battery systems. Toda Kogyo has backward integrated into unique nanoscale synthesis technologies, in order to control quality of the whole supply chain and to build a business on providing materials, research and solutions to many of the world’s top companies.
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