DGAP-News: FUCHS strengthens e-mobility business and enters the battery market

The FUCHS Group, which operates globally in the lubricants sector, has taken above 28 p.c of the shares in E-Lyte Improvements GmbH. This youthful enterprise develops and makes groundbreaking liquid electrolytes for significant-overall performance batteries in the industrial and automotive sectors. “We are placing foot on new terrain outside the house the common programs for lubricants. The world is transforming speedily and we dont just want to hold rate, we want to actively fulfill the upcoming: by moving into a pretty exciting, globally fast-increasing sector with sizeable business enterprise potential,” reviews Stefan Fuchs, Chairman of the Government Board, describing the explanations at the rear of the the latest investment.

The Group introduced its FUCHS2025 tactic application back again in 2019. More than the subsequent couple of years, this application will help the organization take gain of the prospects introduced by the megatrends of digitalization, sustainability, and e-mobility. The new investment will also feed into this, as it grants FUCHS accessibility to the speedy-expanding current market for electrolytes. This marketplace is set to grow to be significantly critical, specifically in and out of Europe, considering the fact that
electrolytes stand for a essential ingredient of the lithium-ion batteries applied in countless programs, which include e-mobility. FUCHS is investing around EUR 8 million in this new area of action. The share purchase agreement also opens up the risk of getting more shares on a action-by-phase foundation over time.

“Although this market is uncharted territory for us, at FUCHS we are experts in acquiring tailor made-made methods for exclusive buyer needs and a very broad selection of purposeful fluid purposes globally,” provides the CEO. 1 thing the two new partners have in popular is the simple fact that they are not searching to serve the mass market, but fairly aim on promising superior-efficiency purposes. The expense signifies an vital move and extends FUCHS’ skills in the discipline of e-mobility. The Group previously extended its portfolio in 2020 with FUCHS BluEV, a devoted solution line for the most recent e-mobility applications.

The E-Lyte product technologies also focuses on conference certain specifications and is centered on specific overall performance attributes, these types of as a lot quicker battery charging periods. These are not only of very important significance for electric cars, but also maintain likely for numerous other promising parts, this kind of as drones, healthcare engineering, higher and reduced temperature purposes, or the aerospace sector.

“There is no for a longer time just one universal electrolyte for batteries and the distinctions among these readily available are getting to be a lot more and additional pronounced. The fast producing battery technologies for a broad range of applications are resulting in skyrocketing demand from customers for customized electrolyte formulation and at any time larger generation volumes. In buy to cater for this, we have to have a nearby supply chain, not only since the electrolyte doesn’t permit lengthy delivery and storage instances for the reason that of its limited shelf lifestyle,” says Dr. Ralf Wagner, Taking care of Spouse of E-Lyte Improvements GmbH.

In the upcoming stage, the essential creation infrastructure will be proven jointly at the FUCHS site in Kaiserslautern, Germany to aid industrialization, scaling, and further more expansion. Resources are in certain being invested in the generation amenities and laboratory machines. Creation is scheduled to start off in the summer season of 2023.

German business Customcells Holding GmbH, a main intercontinental firm in the enhancement of unique, superior-effectiveness lithium-ion battery cells, is the 3rd companion in the joint venture.

Mannheim, Might 25, 2022

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About FUCHS
Established in 1931 as a household business in Mannheim, FUCHS is now the world’s major unbiased provider of impressive lubrication methods, covering almost every market and application. Nowadays, the company’s 6,000 employees in about 50 nations around the world nevertheless share the similar objective: to maintain the globe relocating both equally sustainably and successfully. To live up to this claim, we think in conditions of perfection, not just criteria. When developing individual remedies, we enter into an intense consumer dialogue performing as an professional expert, progressive trouble solver and trusted crew partner.

About E-Lyte Improvements
E-Lyte Improvements GmbH operates out of the city of Münster in Germany, where it develops and generates groundbreaking electrolytes for modern day energy storage systems with a emphasis on specific demands. The firm was founded in 2019 as a startup, splitting absent from the Meet up with Battery Study Heart at the University of Münster (WWU). It is supported by the EXIST Transfer of Investigate pre-seeding system, which by itself is financed both of those by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Financial Affairs and Local climate Action (BMWK) and the European Social Fund. The team at the moment has twelve customers.

About CUSTOMCELLS
CUSTOMCELLS is a major organization in the growth and series manufacturing of point out-of-the-art lithium-ion battery cells. Based mostly on flexible production principles and state-of-the-art investigation and creation services, CUSTOMCELLS develops and makes high-tech solutions in the field of electrodes, electrolytes, battery cells and battery modules tailored to the respective prerequisite profile of its clients. The buyer spectrum covers a broad assortment of industries  with a concentration on the automotive, maritime, oil & fuel and, in the upcoming, aviation sectors.

At the signing of the deal (from remaining): Dr. Stephan Röser (Head of Generation E-Lyte Innovations GmbH), Kay-Peter Wagner (Running Director FUCHS SCHMIERSTOFFE GmbH), Torge Thönnessen (Taking care of Director Customcells Holding GmbH), Stefan Knapp (Chairman of the Government Board FUCHS SCHMIERSTOFFE GmbH), Dr. Ralf Wagner (Taking care of Director E-Lyte Improvements GmbH), Dr. Kolja Beltrop (Head of Exploration & Advancement E-Lyte Improvements GmbH)