HiQ-CARB – Greener Carbons

To provide the fast-growing battery industry with affordable, sustainable and high-quality carbon additives, these alternative carbon blacks are being upscaled, combined and commercialized by the HiQ-CARB consortium. The HiQ-CARB project aims to provide the European industry with more sustainable and hiqh-quality carbon additives for advanced lithium-ion batteries. A competitive manufacturing value chain in Europe is to be created – last but not least to foster green battery technologies with improved environmental performance. The project consortium includes the leading materials manufacturers Orion Engineered Carbons and Arkema as well as the innovative cell manufacturer Customcells. Application-oriented battery R&D competences and a life cycle assessment are provided by Fraunhofer ISC, Aalto University and the University of Bordeaux. To provide sustainable, high-quality carbon additives to the rapidly growing battery industry, Orion’s Acetylenes Black and Arkema’s resource-efficient carbon nanotubes are being used, combined and commercialized on a larger scale. HiQ-CARB wants to significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the production of conductive additives for batteries – and thus make an important contribution, because the production of conventional conductive additives accounts for a large part of the carbon footprint of batteries.