Sakuu has been named a winner in Quick Firm’s 2025 World Altering Concepts Awards for its Kavian dry electrode printing course of. The corporate’s platform permits battery producers to print electrodes with out utilizing moist processes. In keeping with Sakuu, this know-how addresses challenges in scalability, sustainability, and price discount for battery manufacturing.
The Kavian platform integrates dry manufacturing steps right into a single software that produces lithium-ion battery electrodes. It requires lower than half the manufacturing unit house of typical moist coating tools. The system can print varied cathode and anode chemistries together with NCM, NCA, LFP, graphite, and silicon-graphite on present collector foil.
“It’s an awesome honor to have Quick Firm acknowledge our dry electrode printing course of as a World Altering Concept,” stated Robert Bagheri, Sakuu founder and CEO. “This award additional validates the effectiveness of our Kavian Platform for enabling battery cell producers and OEMs to scale up manufacturing to assist the expansion, sustainability, and effectivity calls for of the long run.”
Quick Firm’s judges particularly acknowledged Kavian for “paving the best way for safer, extra environmentally sustainable battery electrode printing.” The competitors evaluated greater than 1,500 entries based mostly on influence, sustainability, design, creativity, scalability, and societal advantages.
Sakuu claims a number of benefits for its know-how, together with full elimination of poisonous solvents and water, 55% discount in CO2 emissions, and 60% smaller manufacturing footprint. The corporate additionally states the system provides 20% discount in capital tools prices and 30% financial savings in utility working prices. Sakuu stories having 113 patents in materials, course of, and manufacturing, together with over 130 commerce secrets and techniques in chemistry and course of IP.
