Comau’s newly-built dry room enables research on battery cells in Turin, Italy

Industrial automation specialist Comau has built a proprietary, fully-equipped dry room laboratory at its Italian headquarters in Grugliasco, near Turin, Italy, to develop and test the cell manufacturing equipment the company has already developed. The system will also be used to test new machines targeting Lithium-Ion and Lithium Metal cells, in order to access solid state technologies as a further step towards next-generation and post Lithium batteries.

Indeed, the new dry room, for which Comau has invested close to €1 million, aims to facilitate and speed the development and commercialization of new technologies. It’s quite noteworthy that the new dry room will be openly available to customers, universities and associations in addition to Comau’s Global Competence Center team which at present consists of more than 40 engineers.

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Of course, proprietary industrial robots developed by Comau itself will be employed in the dry room. More into details, in terms of processes, the dry room will facilitate Comau’s development in electrode manufacturing, cell assembly and formation aimed primarily to study and validate solutions for solid state and next generation battery production technologies.

“As recently demonstrated by the launch of a new full line of Cobots and AMRs, as well as welding technologies, Comau continues to invest in research and development across all of its strategic sectors, including e-Mobility. Our new dry room, which allows us to experiment with new battery cell formats and materials in a controlled, humidity-free environment, reflects our ongoing commitment to advancing industrial innovation while also reinforcing our presence and investments in Italy”, stated Pietro Gorlier, CEO at Comau.