CARMERY charcoal US 0.1 billion yuan financing landing, accelerate the carbon-based energy storage materials research and development process!

Recently, CARMERY New Materials (Huzhou) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guoke Tanmei") successfully obtained 0.1 billion yuan of angel round financing. This round of financing was led by Lihe Capital, and many well-known institutions such as Shenneng Chengyi, Dongfang Jiafu, Chaowei Group, Hongyu Capital, Cuiying Venture Capital, Guohua Investment, Changxing Financial Control, Shanghai Rong Venture Capital and Yunle Capital followed. This round of funds is mainly used to promote the construction of a thousand tons of hard carbon production line and material research and development and testing platform.

This is the third round of financing completed by Guoke Tanmei after the seed round and angel round financing. In less than two years, the company has won the support of new and old shareholders by relying on the comprehensive advantages of various raw material system technologies and material application system solutions, which fully demonstrates the high recognition and expectation of the market for the company.

CARMERY Carbon United States focuses on the needs of the lithium, sodium ion battery and supercapacitor industry, with hard carbon and porous carbon materials as the main direction, and is committed to providing users with reliable carbon-based energy storage materials and their system application solutions. The company's goal is to become an international leading carbon material platform enterprise through resource integration and strategic layout.

Hard carbon has the advantages of good sodium storage capacity and high capacity, and is the main negative material for sodium ion batteries. However, due to the late start of China's hard carbon anode industry, the current market mainly relies on imported hard carbon for product research and development, high prices limit its wide application in production, which makes hard carbon materials become a bottleneck restricting the further development of China's sodium power industry. With mature and cost-effective material preparation technology and solutions, promoting the localization of hard carbon materials is the key to achieve competitive breakthrough in the existing market environment.

Since its establishment, CARMERY Charcoal America has closely followed the changes in the market and users' needs, and actively explored the preparation process of high-performance carbon material products through in-depth market research and continuous research and development investment. At present, the company has conquered three different raw material technical routes of biomass, coal and asphalt, and successfully developed a series of hard carbon products such as GHC-A300, B280, C300 and C300A, relying on its own electrochemical energy storage device assembly and evaluation platform, A system that can output material to the user applies the solution.

Chen Chengmeng, founder of CARMERY, said that carbon-based new materials have historically been key materials to promote social progress because of their unique structure and function designability, and are of great significance for ensuring national defense security, serving advanced manufacturing, helping the "double carbon" goal and supporting high-quality economic development. In the field of electrochemical energy storage, carbon materials also play an irreplaceable role. It is not only an important way to realize the materialization of biomass or fossil resources, but also a necessary support for the development of new energy industry.

CARMERY officially started the construction of a 1000-ton lithium/sodium battery anode material industrial demonstration line in August 2023, completed the construction in January 2024, and is currently undergoing production commissioning. At the same time, the company's R & D center will soon be completed, which will become the industry's leading material development and performance evaluation platform.

In terms of products, CARMERY Carbon US hard carbon products have been sent to 30 downstream users for evaluation and verification. Among them, the user feedback of asphalt products shows that its capacity, first effect, magnification, high and low temperature performance is equivalent to that of imported products, and its cycle performance has surpassed imported products and reached the leading domestic level. Coal products are also widely concerned by downstream users because of their high cost performance.

In terms of operation and management, CARMERY is constantly establishing and improving the internal management system, promoting the construction of quality management system, actively recruiting excellent talents, standardizing the human resource management system, and building "standardized operation" and "high performance team" to provide strong guarantee for the rapid development of enterprises.

Chen Chengmeng said that 2023 is the first year for Guoke Charcoal to set sail, and 2024 will be a critical moment for the company's hard carbon products to be put into production and market promotion. Based on the technical accumulation and advantages in the field of carbon-based new materials, CARMERY Carbon United States will continue to base itself on carbon-containing resources such as oil, coal, graphite and biomass, and face the needs of new energy, electric vehicles, aerospace and information electronics industries for energy storage and thermal control. Taking hard carbon as the starting point, it will expand the layout of porous carbon and thermal management materials and other products to extend the formation of short-term high-frequency energy storage solutions for supercapacitors, inject new impetus into the company's sustainable development.

Zhang Shulue, founding partner of Lihe Capital, said: "Sodium-ion batteries are in the initial stage of industrialization. Compared with lithium batteries, sodium-ion batteries have the advantages of better safety, higher rate, and richer resource reserves. There are large application markets in electric vehicles, electric two-wheelers, base stations, etc. The team of Dr. Chen Chengmeng has accumulated rich research results and industrialization experience in the field of carbon-based materials. The company to biomass, coal and asphalt and other raw materials as a precursor, the preparation of low-cost, high-performance hard carbon materials, is the current * suitable for sodium ion battery negative material, the domestic leading technology. In addition, the company also has technical reserves in the field of porous carbon and other carbon materials, which is very suitable for the preparation of silicon carbon anode materials by vapor deposition method, which is the company's second growth curve in the future."

Xu Yi, co-head of Dongfang Jiafu's intelligent manufacturing and new materials industry, said: "Although sodium batteries have the disadvantage of low energy density compared with lithium batteries, they have performance advantages such as rate performance, high and low temperature performance and safety. It is expected to supplement and replace lithium batteries in scenarios such as energy storage and two-wheeled vehicles. At present, the sodium battery industry is progressing rapidly and has great potential for development. Relying on Shanxi Coal Chemical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team has many years of experience in carbon material research and development and engineering, and the team strength is strong. The company has a variety of systems of hard carbon products, its capacity, magnification, the first effect and other performance industry-leading. We believe that under the leadership of Dr. Chen Chengmeng, Guoke Carbon America is expected to lead the rapid development of carbon material technology."

Zhang Yunxuan, head of Chaowei Group's war investment, said: "Guoke Charcoal America is one of the few enterprises that have entered the pilot stage of fossil-based hard carbon. After testing its products, we found that its comprehensive performance in the cycle and dynamic performance is better, its product processing performance is excellent, compaction density has advantages, in the current evaluation of the same type of domestic hard carbon in the leading level. In addition, we believe that the future of coal-based hard carbon to meet the two-tricycle battery for the ultimate cost-effective requirements."

Chen Gen, Executive General Manager of Hongyu Capital, said: "As a fund manager of Shanghai Airport Group, we pay special attention to" double carbon "related investment opportunities that can promote the construction of green airports. As a new generation of battery system, sodium power, based on its low cost, high safety, high cycle life and low temperature performance characteristics and supply chain security characteristics, will be in the airport and other strong security requirements of energy storage, automotive and other scenarios have a wide range of applications. Relying on the transformation of the achievements of Shanxi Institute of Coal and Chemical, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guoke Carbon Beauty has a domestic first-class carbon material research and development and engineering team. At present, the company to hard carbon sodium ion battery negative material as the main direction, covering biomass, coal-based and asphalt-based and other product categories, according to user needs to provide high-capacity, high-rate, long-life and low-cost hard carbon materials, product performance has basically achieved domestic technology breakthrough. After this financing, the first batch of mass production products industry landing will vigorously promote the overall commercial application process of sodium ion batteries."

Xu Liangxin, senior investment manager of Sheneng Chengyi, said: "The pitch-based hard carbon material of Guoke Tanmei is the leading technology in China and has sufficient upstream supply. In the case of large-scale mass production, the cost reduction space is huge, which is suitable for application in the field of power generation and energy storage. At present, Shenneng is investing in or holding a number of excellent positive and negative materials, cell modules and PACK enterprises in the sodium power industry, laying out the sodium power industry chain to meet the energy storage needs in the process of developing from a single thermal power to gas power, nuclear power, hydropower, wind power, photovoltaic and other diversified power sources. The original porous carbon products of Guoke Carbon United States have obtained new application scenarios with the major technological breakthrough of G14 in the new silicon carbon anode material. Its team originated from Shanxi Institute of Coal Chemical Industry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2012, it has been engaged in the research and development of porous carbon technology. It has accumulated a deep technical accumulation. It has conducted in-depth research on the formation mechanism of the microstructure of porous carbon. At present, related products have been formed, and large-scale applications can be expected in the future."

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