KOTA Technology participated in the "Battery Craftsmen Annual Conference" as a title sponsor and won the Annual Innovation Pioneer Award

On March 28-29, the "21st Battery Series Event - Battery Craftsmen Annual Meeting 2024" was grandly held in Shanghai. More than 800 guests from upstream and downstream companies of composite current collectors such as automobile companies, power batteries, new materials, and vacuum coating equipment conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions.

　　As the domestic new energy high-end equipment manufacturer that masters and adopts the one-step all-dry process route to design, produce and manufacture vacuum coating equipment, KOTA Technology was invited to attend the conference and named the "Composite Current Collector Forum". Mr. Zhu Kaixing, the company's deputy general manager and secretary of the board of directors, presided over the sub-forum. He said: In this bright spring season when everything is lush and green, the guests from all parties gathered at the Shanghai Battery Craftsmen Annual Conference will surely promote the continuous linkage and innovation of upstream and downstream manufacturers in the composite current collector industry, and promote the accelerated penetration of composite current collectors in new energy vehicles and other fields. He also expressed a warm welcome and sincere thanks to the guests who came to this forum!

　　Mr. Zhu Kaixing introduced: At present, with diversified energy demand, power batteries, as core components in the field of new energy, have become the focus of global attention and have also ushered in development opportunities. As a substitute for traditional aluminum foil and copper foil for positive and negative electrodes of lithium batteries, composite current collectors have unique advantages such as "low cost, high safety, long life and high energy density". As the domestic manufacturer to master and adopt a one-step all-dry process route to design, produce and manufacture vacuum coating equipment, KOTA Technology has a complete product matrix, including: vacuum magnetron sputtering coating machine (can be double-sided metal material), vacuum evaporation coating machine (can be double-sided aluminum), vacuum magnetron sputtering evaporation composite coating machine (can be double-sided copper and aluminum), the vacuum coating equipment developed and manufactured by the company can achieve roll-to-roll double-sided 1μm metal material at one time (can be gold, silver, copper, aluminum and other metal materials), and is widely used in lithium batteries, pan-semiconductors, photovoltaics, military aerospace, consumer electronics and other fields.

　　At the forum, Mr. Zhu Kaixing also gave a keynote speech on "Ultra-precision vacuum coating equipment to promote the development of composite current collector industry" and successfully organized a roundtable forum: Pain points of composite current collector marketization and exploration of composite current collector technology routes. Experts and scholars from upstream and downstream composite current collector industries such as Yinglian Composite Current Collector, KOTA Technology, Guanghua Technology, Dongsheng Intelligence, Shengdongli, and Dongfulai participated in the interactive exchanges and fully analyzed the current status of the industry and future development prospects. Mr. Zhu Kaixing concluded that the current process route, substrate stability, cost and yield of composite current collectors are the focus of the industry chain. KOTA Technology is willing to work with colleagues in the industry to form a collaborative, open and innovative "Composite Current Collector Industry Alliance" to jointly explore breakthrough paths for key technologies, promote the rapid development of the composite current collector industry, and contribute to the progress of my country's new energy field.

　　The conference also held an award ceremony for companies that won the "21st Battery Craftsmen Annual Conference Craftsmanship Cup". KOTA Technology won the title of "Annual Innovation Pioneer Award" and Mr. Mitsuya Matsuda, general manager of KOTA Technology, went on stage to receive the award as a representative of the company.

　　KOTA Technology will always focus on solving the key bottlenecks in the future development of China's high-end copper foil production equipment and ultra-precision vacuum coating equipment, adhere to the localization of my country's high-end copper foil production equipment and ultra-precision vacuum coating, break overseas technical barriers, and enhance the independent and controllable supply chain industry chain. It is committed to becoming a "world- new energy high-end equipment manufacturer".