Technology:
Daikin, Japan’s
leading industrial air-conditioner maker, developed a high performance
electrolyte that doubles the capacity of a lithium-ion battery, and will start
to mass produce it in its plant in Alabama in the U.S. shortly. The company
originally produces the raw materials for electrolyte, but it successfully
increased the performance of an electrolyte by improving the composition of the
raw materials. Using a fluorine series solution as the raw material, the new
electrolyte allows for charging at a higher voltage than the standard
electrolyte. Besides increasing the battery capacity, it can lengthen the life
of a lithium-ion battery because it does not deteriorate easily. The company
wishes to get sales of 15 billion yen from this new electrolyte in 2015.
The mass production
plant in the U.S. will be ready to operate in August with an annual production capacity
of 2,000 tons. Daikin plans to build a plant for mass production both in China
and Japan to increase the total annual production capacity to 10,000 tons. The
new electrolyte will be put on the U.S. in January 2013. Daikin reckons the
market of electrolyte for lithium-ion battery will grow from current 30,000
tons to 50,000-100,000 tons in 2015, and plans to get 10% share in the world
market in 2015. The company is the world second largest maker of
fluorine-related chemical products following DuPont of the U.S.
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