In addition to its ongoing development and production activities, ElevenEs is committed to strengthening the EU battery supply chain by providing services for qualifying novel materials from EU startups by producing prismatic LFP blade-type cells and validating the performance of novel materials inside these battery cells. The joint development agreement with CarbonX focuses on evaluating an innovative material and benchmarking its performance against standard graphite anodes. Through this collaboration, LFP cells with CarbonX’s material will be produced to assess its potential, fostering innovation and enhancing the sustainability and competitiveness of the European battery industry.

Together, these two high-potential companies mark a significant step in building a resilient local supply chain for LFP batteries in Europe.

CarbonX is a leader in utilizing low-cost, energy-efficient carbon black production processes with their patented feedstock material to create a next-generation carbon-based anode active material. With current, already at scale, production capacity at 20ktpa, their X7 product is replacing natural and synthetic graphite with a product that outperforms graphite on every key metric. CarbonX is in advance negotiations to supply anode materials to customers from the US and Asia, breaking first ground in Europe. Founded in 2014 but the first patents families filed in 2009, CarbonX has been supplying advanced materials to the automotive industry since 2019. Currently, the company headquarters are based in Delft, Netherlands.

ElevenEs is a pioneer in LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) cathode battery technology and the creator of Europe’s first and largest full-size LFP blade prismatic battery cell.  The company was established in 2020 as a spin-off of the Al Pack Group, an aluminum packaging company. ElevenEs opened its LFP battery R&D center in 2021. An LFP pilot manufacturing facility with a 10MWh capacity was opened in April 2023. The new business stage is in preparation: building and launching the Megafactory with 1,000MWh capacity in Serbia.  ElevenEs plans to ramp up to altogether 49GWh of manufacturing capacity in Europe and the US before the end of the decade. ElevenEs aims to create accessible, safe, and sustainable batteries for industrial applications, energy storage systems, and electric vehicles. The company is supported by EIT InnoEnergy.