eliver heat to car components including batteries, seats, passenger cabin “Surround Heat” and more.  These innovations will enhance passenger comfort and safety while preserving battery life and increasing vehicle range. Since its founding in 2016, Nanotherm has been advancing carbon nanotube (CNT) technology from coatings to films, with scalable roll-to-roll production capabilities that ensure consistent quality at high volume. Battelle, wi...

News  Updated at: 2025/05/14

Canatu, Finland partners with DENSO to improve carbon nanotube performance Canatu Plc signed a one-year joint development agreement (JDA) with DENSO Corporation to improve the performance of Canatu carbon nanotubes (Canatu CNTs). DENSO is one of Canatu’s largest shareholders. This JDA builds on the MoU signed by Canatu and DENSO last year for enhancing CNT performance, developing advanced reactors, and enabling practical applications like ADAS ...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/16

ng ecosystem named Venture Platform. The 20 companies include Betterial, BEI Lab, and Carbon T&C. Their products are: carbon nanotubes for secondary batteries; products to reduce the weight of lithium-ion batteries by 50% while maintaining more than twice the energy density; and lithium-ion battery CNT and graphene slurries, respectively. (From a press release on December 30, 2024)...

News  Updated at: 2025/01/06

TwoDM to build new CNT factory in Pohang, South Korea South Korea’s TwoDM Co., Ltd. will construct a new plant to make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for secondary batteries in Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do. The company will invest KRW 30 billion (JYP 3.3 billion) to create an annual output of 120 tons of CNT powder and 2,400 tons of dispersion liquid. TwoDM has headquarters in the Ulsan Metropolitan City and a plant in Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do. (From a pre...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/26

Canatu, Finland signs MoU with DENSO to commercialize carbon nanotube products On December 4, Canatu signed a technology memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DENSO CORPORATION. This partnership leverages Canatu’s carbon nanotube (Canatu CNT) technology to deliver new value-add to customers around sustainable mobility.  Integrating Canatu’s carbon nanotube technology, DENSO focuses on promoting efforts toward the practical application of tr...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/05

urpose Acquisition Company founded for corporate acquisitions.  After the completion, the combined company will be renamed Canatu Plc (in Finnish Canatu Oyj). The new combined company targets a revenue of over EUR 100 million and an EBIT margin of over 30% in 2027. Canatu’s current core includes CNT membranes for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography in semiconductors and film heaters for ADAS in automotive. The combined company will be an att...

News  Updated at: 2024/07/10

employment. The work started in 2023 and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024.  The new clean room meets the ISO3 level, the strictest standard in the semiconductor industry. In an ISO 3 class clean room, there must be no particles larger than one micrometer in size. The more efficient CNT film production line, on the other hand, triples the capacity and halves the lead time. Based on Canatu press release ...

News  Updated at: 2024/05/01

LG Chem to join Chinaplas 2024 plastic exhibition Several South Korean media sources reported that LG Chem Ltd. (LG Chem) will participate in Chinaplas 2024, a four-day event starting on April 23, 2024, in Shanghai, China, to showcase plastic products. The South Korean company’s exhibits will include carbon nanotubes (CNT) and engineering plastics applied in electric vehicle (EV) batteries and chargers, automotive interior and exterior material...

News  Updated at: 2024/04/25

oped carbon nanotube reactor at the Canatu factory in Finland. The reactor was developed to scale up carbon nanotube film manufacturing to meet increasing demand to address the global ADAS market. Through this development, Canatu and Denso can triple the throughput of Canatu carbon nanotube (Canatu CNT) films. They have significantly progressed in scaling and controlling the chemistry of the CNT synthesis process. The newest reactor will be expan...

News  Updated at: 2024/04/11

pany. The JV will secure technologies relating to next-generation secondary battery materials. Chemowave is a subsidiary of Yonsei Technology Holdings and has about 40 patents on material composite technologies at home and abroad. The two companies are conducting joint research on carbon nanotubes (CNT) and the use of nanomaterials for improving the performance of secondary battery materials. (From various releases on September 18, 2023)...

News  Updated at: 2023/09/19

Applied Materials and Fraunhofer IPMS launch European Semiconductor- Metrology Technology Hub On July 17, Applied Materials, Inc., and the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, announced a collaboration to create Europe´s largest technology hub for semiconductor metrology and process analysis. It will be situated at the Center Nanoelectronic Technologies (CNT) of Fraunhofer IPMS in Dresden. The new hub will provide state-of-the-ar...

News  Updated at: 2023/07/18

Kanematsu, F.C.C. and CARBON FLY to jointly commercialize carbon recycling Kanematsu Corporation (Kanematsu), F.C.C. Co., Ltd. (F.C.C.), and CARBON FLY, Inc. (CARBON FLY) announced that they will start discussions on the joint commercialization of carbon recycling. The three companies will jointly develop a manufacturing technology for carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which is a high-performance material, by extracting carbon from carbon dioxide (CO2) em...

News  Updated at: 2023/06/15

LG Chem to build new CNT plant in Seosan, South Korea LG Chem Ltd. (LG Chem) announced that it has broken ground for its fourth carbon nano-tube (CNT) plant at its Daesan complex in Seosan, South Chuncheong Province. The South Korean company has its first, second, and third CNT plants in Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, with a total annual output of 2,900 tons. Once the fourth plant starts operating in the first quarter of 2025, the company’s gross yearly ...

News  Updated at: 2023/06/01

Enplus to join Battery Show Europe 2023 in Germany Several South Korean media sources reported that South Korea’s Enplus Co., Ltd. (Enplus) will participate in the Battery Show Europe 2023, which will be held from May 23 to 25, 2002, in Stuttgart, Germany. The company will exhibit products for secondary batteries, including dry electrodes and other electrode products, carbon nanotube (CNT) conductive materials, prismatic and pouch batteries, an...

News  Updated at: 2023/05/17

Canatu, Finland increases CNT film production capacity  On March 8, Carbon nanomaterial developer Canatu Oy announced that it has upgraded its carbon nanotube (CNT) film manufacturing to meet the rising demand for ADAS heater products in the automotive industry.  Canatu has improved its step-and-repeat (SAR) CNT film production line by adding new reactor capacity and ramping up the level of automation. These improvements have effectively doubl...

News  Updated at: 2023/03/14

ilm heaters can be integrated inside the automotive windshield glass B and C surfaces, or laminated on the inner (D) glass surface. Canatu also presents its 3D touch sensors, adapted for various automotive interior applications. An on-glass laminated ADAS camera heater demonstrator by DENSO, Canatu CNT film heater is laminated on D (inner) glass surface using Optically Clear Adhesive (OCA). This entirely wire-free CNT film heater provides fast, e...

News  Updated at: 2023/01/09

Toyo Ink, Japan to produce CNT dispersion for lithium-ion batteries in Hungary On October 18, Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency announced that Toyo Ink has opened its first European plant in Újhartyán, Hungary to produce CNT dispersion for lithium-ion batteries. The HUF 7 billion investment will create 45 jobs.  Up till the opening in Hungary, Toyo Ink’s key customer, leading battery manufacturer SK On had been supplied from the America...

News  Updated at: 2022/10/19

Enplus to join Automechanika Frankfurt 2022 in Germany South Korea's Enplus Co., Ltd. (Enplus) announced that it will join Automechanika Frankfurt 2022 to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, from September 13 to 17, 2022. The company will exhibit secondary battery materials, such as positive and negative electrodes, carbon nanotubes (CNT), thermal gap fillers (GF-200, GF-300, GF-500), and thermal pads (GP-300, GP-500). The South Korean company plans t...

News  Updated at: 2022/09/16

Enplus to supply carbon nanotubes to Grinergy Several South Korean media sources reported that Enplus Co., Ltd. (Enplus) has signed a contract with a South Korean secondary battery manufacturing venture, Grinergy, on the supply of carbon nanotubes (CNT). The contract is valid from May 2022 to December 2023, and the sales under the contract are expected to reach KRW 22.16 billion (JPY 2.22 billion). In March 2021, Enplus and Grinergy signed a busi...

News  Updated at: 2022/05/10

LG Chem to raise carbon nanotube production capacity South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. (LG Chem) announced that it has completed the construction of its second carbon nanotube (CNT) plant in Yeosu-si, Jeollanam-do, and launched the commercial operation. The company has expanded its annual CNT output to 1,700 tons from 500 tons. The Yeosu Plant produces CNT as positive electrode conductive materials and delivers them to LG Energy Solution and other ele...

News  Updated at: 2021/04/14