DOVER, Del., Aug. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Rain Carbon
Inc. (RAIN), a global leader in upcycling of industrial by-products
to high value carbon materials, has announced a 30,000 sq. ft.
industrial facility in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada to serve as the location for the new RAIN Innovation
Center for Energy Storage Materials, marking another significant
step in the company's commitment to advancing sustainable energy
storage material solutions. The R&D center consists of a
demonstration facility, allowing pilot-scale processing of carbon
and carbon precursor materials, and laboratories dedicated to the
carbon material analysis with state-of-the-art analytical and
electrochemical testing equipment.
First and foremost, the R&D center will facilitate the
testing and application development of RAIN's LIONCOAT®
thermoplastic precursor products used for enhancing the
electrochemical performance of battery anode materials. In
addition, the facility will support the development and
commercialization of new, innovative energy storage material
solutions based on natural and synthetic graphite as well as
silicon-carbon composites for lithium-ion batteries. The center
will also house the product innovations for carbonaceous materials
tailored to emerging energy storage technologies such as
solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries and hydrogen fuel
cells.
Equipment installation is already underway, with the start-up of
the demonstration facility scheduled to commence in the first
quarter of 2025.
"Our new R&D center is the natural, next step to bring
together RAIN's battery materials and high-purity carbon
businesses, which are well established in the energy storage
materials sector in both Europe
and Asia," said Gerry Sweeney, President of RAIN. "Our R&D
teams are already known as market leaders. We aim to combine these
strengths with our long-standing presence in North America to use this new facility to
expand our existing list of patents and to spring-board RAIN to an
even higher, more-value-added level in the evolving energy storage
space."
Dr. Michael Spahr, Vice President
of Innovations in RAIN's Carbon Distillation & Advanced
Materials business unit, expressed enthusiasm about this R&D
investment, emphasizing: "We are thrilled to expand our global
R&D and Energy Storage Materials expertise. This move reaffirms
our dedication to the growing North American Energy Materials
supply chain while maintaining our position as an innovator on a
global scale."
Rain Carbon Inc., a company with headquarters in Dover, Delaware, USA, is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Rain Industries Limited and is a global, vertically
integrated supplier of a diversified portfolio of carbon-based and
chemical products that are essential raw materials for staples of
everyday life. The company's Carbon segment converts industrial by-products
of oil refining, steel production, bio-based and recycling sources
into high-value carbon materials and intermediate chemicals. The
Advanced Materials segment extends the value chain of its carbon
processing through the down-stream refining of a portion of its
output into eco-friendly, specialized chemical products. RAIN
products enable customers in the aluminum, green steel, graphite,
energy storage, tire, adhesive, coatings, pigment and specialty
chemicals industries to transform by-products into usable, valuable
products. RAIN's LIONCOAT® battery-grade carbon
precursor materials are world-wide used ingredients for graphite
and silicon-carbon composite materials used in lithium-ion
batteries.
Learn more about RAIN's innovative technical product solutions
at www.raincarbon.com.
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