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Sakuu Featured in The Wall Street Journal

"A better process"

Christopher Mims, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, interviewed Sakuu President and CTO Arwed Niestroj recently, and covered Sakuu's manufacturing technology in his column.

In "The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing," Mims writes that "one of the biggest advantages of 3-D printing is that it works with any battery, regardless of its cell chemistry. It could advance today’s lithium-ion as well as emerging sodium-ion and solid-state tech."

Mims also noted that Sakuu's additive manufacturing approach "has the potential to show up in commercial batteries much sooner." He wrote:

"Existing battery assembly lines include football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents. This requires a huge amount of energy and is a significant contributor to manufacturing costs, a big reason EV batteries aren’t cheaper. Sakuu’s process, under development for years, uses additive manufacturing to lay down key battery components without solvents, eliminating the need for ovens, says Niestroj."

Read the full WSJ article: The Secret Revolution in Battery Technology: 3-D Printing.