Global specialty chemicals company Orion S.A. will be spotlighting its acetylene-based PRINTEX kappa 100 conductive additives at The Battery Show, October 7th to 10th in Detroit (Booth 5330).
Orion’s highly conductive acetylene black plays a major role in the lithium-ion battery. Learn more in this video.
PRINTEX kappa 100 improves lithium-ion battery performance, enabling higher electrical conductivity, significantly higher power densities, and longer battery life than with other carbon blacks. The high-performance conductive additive forms an excellent percolation network across the cathode surface for effective charging and discharging. It’s supplied as a powder or as beads.
“PRINTEX kappa 100 is helping our customers resolve their battery power challenges,” said
Kevin Milks, Orion marketing manager for polymers, batteries, and special applications. “It is
exceptionally pure, highly refined, and easy to process.”
Orion’s acetylene black production has a clean input material and generates a high yield, giving PRINTEX kappa 100 a low-carbon footprint. The sustainable chemistry of this process reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps customers to reduce their carbon footprint along the battery value chain.
The first acetylene black plant in the US
In April of this year, Orion broke ground on a plant in La Porte, Texas, which will be the only facility in America producing acetylene-based conductive additives for lithium-ion batteries and other applications vital for the global shift to electrification.
PRINTEX kappa 100 and other conductive additives produced at the La Porte plant will be super clean, with only one-tenth of the carbon footprint of other commonly used materials.
“Our La Porte facility will complement our acetylene-based conductive additives plant in
Europe, where we are already the sole producer of acetylene black,” said Dr. Adrian Steinmetz,
Orion global VP for conductive additives. “When it goes online, which we expect in the second quarter of 2025, the new plant will quadruple Orion’s manufacturing capacity for acetylene-based conductive additives.”
Key equipment procurement and off-site fabrication are advancing steadily and field construction activities are currently ramping up.
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