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Cenate preparing for first industrial production Cenate yesterday awarded Vysus Group the task to carry out a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) for its planned industrial production line at Holtskogen in Norway. This analysis is in practice a prerequisite by the Norwegian Authorities in order to obtain the necessary permits for new large scale process industry in Norway.   -The initiation of the QRA marks a major milestone for the industrial maturity of our products and production technology, and it is a great testimony to our scale-up team at the Holtskogen pilot plant, our material evaluation team at Forskningsparken - Oslo Science Park and to DYNATEC Engineering, who all are working intensively to make our scaled up processes work as required, says Erik Sauar, the CEO of Cenate.   -The QRA for Cenate is an exciting task for us in Vysus Group. The Norwegian process industry has long roots in metal production, oil and gas, and Cenate’s project is an exciting step for us into a new industry of advanced battery materials for the future transport sector, says Catharina Lindheim, Department Manager in Vysus Group.  A continued gratitude is also given to Innovation Norway, who has co-funded the scaling of the process equipment and to Norges forskningsråd, who has supported the product development.

Cenate and Erik Sauar just presented our new EV silicon anode products 🔋🚗at the Pareto Conference! 💡 Key takeaways:  ✅ Cenate’s nano composites will save large amounts of Lithium for the battery producers due to the high Lithium efficiency of our products.  ✅ The energy density gain per kg of silicon anode product is probably the highest in industry for Cenate’s new products.  ✅ The manufacturing problems experienced with most silicon anode products have been resolved by Cenate. A big thank you to Pareto Securities for a well-organized and professional event ! A big thank you to Norges forskningsråd and Innovation Norway for their strong support !

A large congratulations from us in Cenate to Vianode (one of our owners and collaboration partners) for their achievement of a large multi-billion contract with General Motors in US. This contract demonstrates very well the global relevance and competence of the Norwegian materials and process industry in the international battery market. For us in Cenate AS this contract is very inspiring, and we are not very far behind in time, but with a completely new silicon anode product that the world never has seen before, and that gives major benefits to the battery producers. On top of the commercial success, Vianode's new process will also greatly help reduce global CO2 emissions. This we are all greatful for. Congratulations and thanks to amongst others Stian Madshus, Burkhard Straube, Hans Erik Vatne, Bridget Deveney, Gunstein Skomedal and the entire Vianode team!

Cenate has now begun shipping products from its new mass production reactor to both world leading and to leading European battery producers. These shipments mark another important milestone in Cenate’s journey towards full scale commercial production of its new and unique silicon anode materials. #BatteryMaterials #EV #Siliconanode

On Wednesday Nov 6 Cenate's CEO Erik Sauar will present our new and industrially available nanostructured silicon materials for batteries at the last FME MoZEES conference in Oslo. These are materials that will now make it possible to strongly increase the energy density of tomorrow's batteries, and cut emissions and costs, without taking on the typical problems of higher cathode costs or costly and cumbersome pre-Lithiation.

A great congratulation to our strong partner and co-owner, Vianode, who today is opening the first full scale graphite production plant in Norway - with anode materials for EV batteries! We in Cenate AS wish you all the best and good luck with ramping up the new plant - and building more. With so many competent people, like Burkhard Straube, Hans Erik Vatne, Stian Madshus, Bridget Deveney, Andreas Forfang and Gunstein Skomedal to mention a few, this looks very promising.

Kombinasjonen solkraft og batterier vil bli den dominerende kraftkilden i store deler av verden, og batterier er også nøkkelen til å kutte utslippene i store deler av transportsektoren. Det blir derfor ikke noe grønt skifte uten batterier! Hvordan kan vi styrke Norges- og EUs posisjon i det globale batterimarkedet? Norsk Industri og Battery Norway inviterer til paneldebatt live og på streaming mandag 12. oktober kl. 16.30 på bærekraftscenen i Arendal. Christer Tryggestad fra McKinsey & Company vil introdusere de viktigste nøkkeltallene og trendene, etterfulgt av en spennende panelsamtale ledet av Axel M. Thorsdal fra Advokatfirmaet Grette AS. I panelet: - Harald Solberg (Norsk Industri) - Tore O. Sandvik (statssekretær Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries) - Erik Sauar (Cenate AS) - Nils Klippenberg (Siemens) - Thina Margrethe Saltvedt Saltvedt (Nordea) Se mer informasjon om arrangementet under

Cenate is today proud to announce that the company has successfully scaled its manufacturing process for its new and proprietary silicon nano composites to commercial scale. – We now consider that the largest scale-up risks are behind us, and are preparing to deliver large, industrial-scale test batches to multiple customers in the coming year, says Cenate CEO Erik Sauar. A big thank you goes to our funding sources and collaboration partners in Innovation Norway, Norges forskningsråd, Nysnø Climate Investments, Must Invest, Fred Olsen, DYNATEC, Institute for Energy Technology, SINTEF, Onsagers AS and Vianode. #siliconanode #batterymaterials #electricvehicles, #batteries

Development of new world leading battery technology is not only about technology. It is also about people. Highly competent people from nearly all continents coming together in advanced collaboration. And often in a very different climate from “back home”.   Nearly half of Cenate’s team are coming from other countries, and many have never learnt to ski, skate, make snow angels, drive a sleigh or all the other fun you can do with and on snow. At the same time there will be parts of the Norwegians in the team that love and master all kinds of winter sports, but also some that don’t. In last year's winter activities our Italian organic chemist broke her leg in downhill sleigh riding in Oslo's famous Korketrekker'n while screaming that she yet had more surface coatings to do in order to complete her job task. So how could we do something fun together in the the snow this year, but avoid broken legs..... ? And give everybody at least a taste of why many Norwegians love their winter?   At Den Norske Turistforening's Finse hut we found a great solution. We could work together in the morning, split into 3-4 different teams for winter activities in the afternoon, and come together again in the evening. Luckily, the weather was fantastic for the people who learnt to ski for the very first time in their life, and they all got their first kilometers passed with joy and excitement. The same great weather (without wind) wasn’t equally good for the group that had prepared for snow sailing. They had to replace a half day of snow sailing with avalanche rescue training instead. But for the mountain ski groups again, it was great.   As a side benefit we could also introduce our new Norwegians to the huge network of about 400 DNT cabins all over Norway - and that everybody can use against a fairly moderate payment. Not all our employees were able to join. Not all got into these photos, but as in the Norwegian saying "All agreed that it had been a great tour."