WKT Declares “Provincial Key Laboratory of Specialty Battery Materials and Technology” Successfully Selected in the List of Provincial Key Laboratories in 2024!

2025-06-04

On June 3, Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Department issued the “Notice on the Announcement of the Results of the 2024 Provincial Key Laboratory Recognition”, and the “Provincial Key Laboratory of Specialty Battery Materials and Technology” declared by WKT as a co-builder was successfully selected into the list of key laboratories in the province.

Zhejiang Key Laboratory is an important part of the scientific and technological innovation system of Zhejiang Province, which is a high-capacity science and innovation platform to support the national strategy and to build a source of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development in Zhejiang. The laboratory jointly built by WKT will focus on key areas such as special battery materials and new battery technology, and promote the research and development of cutting-edge technologies and the deep integration of industry, academia and research.

The company has accelerated the layout of sodium electric technology research and development and industrialization application, and made significant breakthroughs in mainstream technology routes such as layer oxygen and polyanion, with industry-leading performance indexes; ranked first in both sodium battery shipments and sodium battery shipments for energy storage in 2024 (SPIR data), and became the first sole supplier of battery cells for the first public tender of a 100 MWh sodium storage project in China, which consolidates the company's leading position in the field of sodium electricity. This consolidates the company's leading position in the sodium power field.

The company deeply empowers the scale application of sodium power storage, including Guangfa 100MW/200MWh sodium power storage power station, Inner Mongolia Kezhen 2.5MW/10MWh sodium power storage power station and Lianyungang City Energy Group 1MW/2MWh energy storage, and many other demonstration projects, which validate the core competitiveness of the whole chain from technology research and development to large-scale delivery.

The company's success in being selected as a provincial key laboratory once again highlights the company's scientific research and innovation capabilities in the field of new battery materials and technology and industry authority recognition. In the future, the company will continue to focus on the industrial frontier, give full play to the scientific and technological strategic power of the key laboratory, join hands with Wenzhou University and other colleges and universities, to carry out cutting-edge technological innovation and cooperation between industry, academia and research, to empower the development of new quality productivity, and to further consolidate the company's leading position in the field of new batteries!