12 Apr 2021

Big Gains for Low-loss Materials in the 5G Market
The emphasis on low-loss materials in 5G has already started to take effect.
1 Apr 2021

Apple's New Energy Storage Project, Renewable Energy Solutions
Apple today announced over 110 of its manufacturing partners around the world are moving to 100 percent renewable energy for their Apple production, with nearly 8 gigawatts of planned clean energy set to come online. Once completed, these commitments will avoid over 15 million metric tons of CO2e annually — the equivalent of taking more than 3.4 million cars off the road each year.
Background
23 Nov 2020

M&I Materials and Faraday Future: Immersion Cooling
Faraday Future has partnered with M&I Materials to design an immersion-cooled battery pack for their electric vehicles.
Full profile interview
9 Nov 2020

Solid Power
Solid Power is a spin-out from the University of Colorado Boulder developing sulfide-based all solid-state batteries (ASSB) and has been in operation since 2014.
Full profile interview
28 Oct 2020

Carbonfree Chemicals
Carbonfree Chemicals is a company developing technologies for capturing and utilizing carbon dioxide emissions, aiming to simultaneously fight climate change and create useful products. In October 2020, IDTechEx Senior Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Martin Keighley, CEO of Carbonfree Chemicals.
Background
17 Apr 2020

Solvay
Solvay are an advanced materials and speciality chemicals company. They notably entered the carbon fiber industry back in 2015 with the acquisition of Cytec.
Background
31 Mar 2020

SGL Carbon
SGL Carbon have units: composites - fibers & materials (CFM) and graphite materials & systems (GFM). They are one of the largest producers of carbon fiber (ca. 15,000 tpa) and focus on the heavy tow variants (24k and 50k).
Topic overview
31 Mar 2020

2020 status and outlook for the carbon fiber market
This premium article summarises the status of the PAN-based carbon fiber players. It provides a market overview for the capacity and impact of announced expansions. It highlights the main and upcoming players as well as notable acquisitions, partnerships and cost trends.
20 Mar 2020

Immersion of Electric Vehicle Batteries: The Best Way to Keep Cool?
The electric vehicle market is growing rapidly, and with it the demand for fast charging, increased energy density and improved safety. Something that all these areas have in common is heat. Charging a battery quickly generates a lot of heat, with the extra energy capacity of modern and upcoming electric vehicle batteries, extracting this heat becomes more challenging.
Full profile interview
11 Feb 2020

Leclanché (2019)
Leclanché are a premium European battery maker and energy storage solutions provider based in Switzerland. The company supplies battery solutions to many industries, from industrial vehicles and stationary energy storage to robotics.
Update
24 Jan 2020

Samsung
Samsung is a leader in production of QD displays.
Background
23 Dec 2019

AVE
AVE are a French company that make what they call chimera materials. IDTechEx interviewed Edward Ryall.
Full profile interview
29 Nov 2019

Engineered Fluids
Engineered Fluids are a Texas based company that sell single-phase immersion coolants, their AmpCool product range is specifically tailored for several components within electric vehicles including the batteries and motors.
Update
27 Nov 2019

Roboze
Dr Bryony Core caught up with Roboze at Formnext 2019. Roboze are an Italian 3D printer manufacturer who develop professional level FFF printers compatible with high performance thermoplastic filaments.
Full profile interview
27 Nov 2019

Solvay Specialty Polymers
Solvay Specialty Polymers produce over 1500 products across 35 brands of high-performance polymers. In addition to providing for a large range of applications, Solvay have products that have the potential to be used in electric vehicles, a market that they are very interested about getting involved with.
Included are:
Background
8 Nov 2019

NOHMs
NOHMs is a start-up that develops ionic liquid electrolytes for Li-ion batteries. Their technology originated from research at Cornell University with company's CEO and lead researchers all Cornell alumni. They claim their material improves safety by improving thermal and high-voltage stability without impacting cycle life or power.
This profile is an updated version. IDTechEx principal analyst Franco Gonzalez interviewed NOHMs CEO Nathan Ball in 2016.
Full profile interview: SWOT Analysis
10 Sep 2019

Aerosint
29 May 2019

A Solid Future: New Opportunities enabled by Solid State Batteries
Solid state batteries have been considered as the avenue to the next generation energy storage solutions. According to IDTechEx's research "Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2019-2029: Technology, Patents, Forecasts, Players" www.idtechex.com/solid.
19 Apr 2019

Partners to develop solid state batteries for future electric vehicles
Solid Power is teaming up with Ford Motor Company to develop all solid-state batteries for next-generation electric vehicles.
16 Jul 2018

Apple launches new clean energy fund in China
Apple announced a new first-of-its-kind investment fund in China to connect suppliers with renewable energy sources. As part of Apple's commitment to address climate change and increase the use of renewable energy within its supply chain, 10 initial suppliers and Apple will jointly invest nearly $300 million over the next four years into the China Clean Energy Fund.