MEGTEC Systems announces that International Advanced Research Center for Power Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), a Research Institute of the Indian Government, has chosen MEGTEC to supply a complete lithium-ion laboratory battery line for their research and development facility in Chennai. It is planned for the battery line to be installed in the first quarter of 2012.
ARCI's decision to select MEGTEC as the supplier of all major equipment for the battery line is based on MEGTEC's advanced electrode production equipment technology. The installation of this laboratory battery line will give ARCI the capability to design and develop various battery configurations, with MEGTEC acting as a single source of supply, integrator and facilitator for all the major equipment.
MEGTEC will serve as supplier and facilitator for integration of all the major equipment for the project which includes a coater, mixing equipment, calendar, slitter, cell winding equipment and electrolyte filling machine. MEGTEC's service and engineering team from its Pune, India, location will also manage the installation and start-up phases of the project.