Distributed energy producers, such as wind turbines, require sophisticated technologies to store the excess power they generate. Whether in the production of green hydrogen or in the storage of electricity in large batteries,
this is where engineering plastics often excel because they can be used at high temperatures in many components, and guarantee a reliable service life. Thanks to our many years of experience and broad solutions offering, Ensinger is in a position to supply customer and application-specific compounds and composites.
"Battery 2030" and other global projects show that battery technology is one of the important core topics for a wide variety of applications: these applications are important for thermal storage, short-term storage, local small-scale storage, decentralized large-scale batteries and centralized storage power plants.
In order to define innovative materials for existing productions, but also for further developments, interfaces between OEMs and plastics manufacturers like Ensinger are of utmost importance. This is the only way to find materials that meet the OEMs' production processes on the one hand and new requirements such as recycling (circular economy) on the other. As a supplier of high-performance plastics, Ensinger is involved in the development of materials together with OEMs, e.g. for post-lithium batteries (redox flow, lithium-ion, solid-state lithium-ion, lithium-air, lithium-sulfur, etc.).
