“This is a major step forward in battery evolution and the energy transition journey.”
Richard Meserole
President of Fluor’s Advanced Technologies & Life Sciences business line
.…on Fluor partnering with Sweden’s Altris AB to provide front-end engineering and design services for the world’s first industrial-scale sodium-ion battery production facility.
The race is on to find a next-gen alternative to lithium-ion batteries, which power most of our laptops, mobile devices, and millions of battery-electric vehicles worldwide. One leading alternative: Creating sodium-based batteries made mostly of salt, wood, iron, and air.
Irving-based Fluor Corporation announced Thursday that its Advanced Technologies & Life Sciences business line has been selected by Altris AB (whose CEO, Björn Mårlid, is seen above) to provide front-end engineering and design services for the world’s first industrial-scale sodium-ion battery production facility in Sandviken, Sweden.
You can read all about the partnership—and why sodium-based batteries might become a game-changer—in our story here.
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Irving-based Fluor and Altris AB will work to advance a next-gen alternative to lithium-ion batteries, which contain toxic metals and require complex recycling. By contrast, sodium-ion batteries are safer and made mostly of salt, wood, iron, and air. Another big plus: Sodium is 500 times more abundant than lithium.
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