Comau has developed and delivered an industrialized, laboratory-scale cell formation and testing answer for Slovenia’s Nationwide Institute of Chemistry (NIC) designed to help materials validation, product growth and cycle life testing.
The custom-made, turnkey system brings industrial processes and requirements into the NIC laboratory whereas sustaining the flexibleness required for analysis and growth.
In a position to handle pouch, cylindrical and prismatic cells on a standard platform, Comau’s answer seamlessly accommodates totally different cell sizes, chemistries, and applied sciences, giving researchers and industrial entities the liberty to work with a variety of battery cells for laboratory and industrial functions.
The answer delivered to NIC combines devoted thermostatic chambers for cell formation and testing masking a large temperature vary (-20 °C to +60°C) with room-temperature walk-in rooms for cell testing.
Designed to carry industrial ranges of security, flexibility and reliability to a laboratory-scale setting, the tools helps totally different cell codecs (cylindrical, pouch and prismatic) whereas remaining compact, accessible and simple to function and with the important thing intent of serving to bridge the hole between tutorial analysis and business battery growth.
Within the thermostatic chambers standardized cell tray positioning, industrialized cabling and automatic distant cell connection reduce guide intervention and assist shield operators from electrical dangers whereas using simply customizable 3D-printed fittings permits the tools to be shortly and cost-effectively tailored to totally different cell codecs.
The system additionally meets stringent security and safety necessities (EUCAR compliant), together with a hearth suppression system. Within the room-temperature managed setting, alternatively, versatile fixtures are optimized for long run testing (cycle life) permitting researchers to deal with the cells by means of a single channel unbiased management.
General the delivered applied sciences give NIC the flexibleness to work with totally different cell sizes, codecs and testing necessities inside the identical industrialized laboratory setting.
Furthermore, the set up permits NIC to help business customers within the growth and validation of latest battery applied sciences whereas retaining the flexibleness required for analysis actions.
Aldo D’Ambrosio, battery and gas cells phase chief, Comau, says: “Battery innovation more and more is determined by the power to maneuver promising applied sciences out of the laboratory and consider them utilizing processes and circumstances that replicate industrial actuality.
“By supporting totally different cell codecs and testing necessities on the identical platform, we’re serving to NIC create an essential hyperlink between analysis and the subsequent phases of battery growth.”
The NIC facility, which is open to each tutorial and industrial customers, is effectively positioned to help battery analysis and cell testing wants from throughout Europe. The mission additionally displays Comau’s broader capabilities throughout the battery manufacturing course of.
Certainly, the corporate helps battery producers from early-stage validation by means of industrial manufacturing with versatile, extremely tailor-made options and can showcase its end-to-end provide at The Battery Present North America, October 12-15, 2026.
