COV - UK BiC - Formation, Aging and Test

UKBIC is part of the UK government's Faraday Battery Challenge.On the 29th November 2017,it was announced the consortium of Coventry City Council, Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, and WMG, at the University of Warwick,had been awarded £80 million,through a competition led by the Advanced Propulsion Centre and supported by Innovate UK,to establish a new national facility. Opening in 2020,the UKBIC delivers on the UK's Industrial Strategy's 'Future of Mobility' Grand Challenge. It fills a strategic gap in the UK - facilitating scale up to high volume processes for battery materials,cells,modules and packs 2 / 4 primarily for the automotive sector but with wider application. The planned cell production lines will be used to develop and prove materials, cell designs, manufacturing processes and parameters 'at rate' prior to full plant investments. Further information can be found at www.ukbic.co.uk. This tender is specifically for Formation, Aging and Testing equipment.