Altech Chemicals' high-purity alumina attractive to Asian battery markets
Altech Chemicals Ltd (ASX:ATC) has identified an emerging opportunity in the Asian lithium-ion battery sector for its high-purity alumina (HPA) produced in Malaysia from Western Australian kaolin.
The company attended Battery Osaka, a three-day international rechargeable battery exhibition, which attracts representatives from major lithium-ion battery manufacturers and materials suppliers in Japan, South Korea and China.
Discussions Altech had at the conference made it apparent that HPA was now increasingly being directly applied as an outer coating layer onto anode and cathode materials used in lithium-ion batteries, as well as being used as a coating on polymer separator sheets.
Altech considers this development to likely represent an additional market opportunity and demand driver for its 99.99% (4N) HPA.
HPA-coated lithium-ion battery separator sheets greatly increase the integrity of the separator.
This allows a lithium-ion battery to operate at higher temperatures, enhances heat dissipation and assists to prevent thermal run-aways, increasing overall battery safety.
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