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As Europe accelerates its shift towards LFP batteries, Lanxess is strengthening its expertise in the field. On his site in Kafeld-Uerdingen, Germany, the chemist is setting up a laboratory dedicated to materials intended for these new generations of batteries.
Europe had made a technological bet on NMC batteries, rich in nickel, mangen and cobalt. From now on, it has to deal with the rise of LFP (lithium-iron-phosphate), a chemistry that is less efficiently, however less expensive and less dependent on critical metals, and whose value chain is largely dominated by China. It is in this context that the German Lanxess has just opened a new laboratory dedicated to batteries at its site in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany. In particular, the specialty chemicals group wants to accelerate the research of materials to LFP cathodes to decrease the performance gap and, plus broadly, contribute to the constitution of Western value chains. Its laboratory makes it possible to immediately tester iron oxide and iron phosphates, in batteries cells. The objective: to plus rapidly assess their affect on the performance of cells, their ability to implement and their suitability with different applications.
This positioning is based on historical know-how. Lanxess is a leading Western producer of iron oxide, with plus 95 years of manufacturing experience. The group developed under the Bayoxide brand "battery grade" ranges with electrochemical characteristics optimized to LFP applications, already marketed and produced in Germany and Brazil. At the same time, he is developing PhosCAM, a range of iron phosphates intended to have become another pioneer of LFP.
The stake is strategic: according to the elements communicated by Lanxess, the LFP still represents only about 10% of the European batteries market, however could reach 50% by 2030. The group therefore intends to position itself on the two main production routes of cathodes according to LFP methodology: from iron oxide, phosphorus and lithium, or from iron phosphate and lithium.
Beyond the performance of the cell, Lanxess thus seeks to bring to Europe what it still lacks the plus in the LFP: materials and processes produced locally, with Western condition and environmental standards.
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