September 14, 2023: KORE Power will use lithium separators manufactured at ENTEK’s new plant under construction in Indiana, the companies announced on September 12.
KORE will buy separators for both NMC and LFP battery cells produced at its Arizona KOREPlex facility.
Under the terms of the agreement, which runs until at least 2031, ENTEK will supply enough separators for KOREPlex’s initial 7GWh capacity and could later double the amount.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The supply agreement followed ENTEK’s September 6 announcement that it had broken ground at the site of its $1.5 billion lithium ion battery separators production plant in Indiana.
Indiana governor Eric Holcomb, Larry Keith, CEO of ENTEK and Kimberly Medford, president of ENTEK Manufacturing, were among those attending the event at Terre Haute, which marked the formal start of construction on the 1.4 million ft2 plant by design-build contractor Clayco.
Operations are set to start in 2025-2027.
Holcomb said the project would have a transformational impact on the region for generations to come.
The plant is set to produce up to 1.4 billion m2 of battery separators annually — enough to supply material for about 1.4 million EVs every year.
Last month, KORE announced an agreement to supply batteries for Energy Vault energy storage systems manufactured in the US.
KORE will start supplying Energy Vault in 2025 after the first phase of its KOREPlex facility comes on line.