ExxonMobil Chemical Affiliate in Japan Presents Capabilities at Specialty Battery Exposition
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TOKYO -- ExxonMobil Chemical's affiliate in Japan, Tonen Chemical Corporation (TCC), will feature its innovative microporous film lithium ion battery (LIB) separators designed for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications at the 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exposition (EVS 22), Yokohama, October 23-28, booth A-62.
TCC's advanced performance separators are expected to significantly improve LIB power and safety performance in HEV applications. They offer the potential to make HEV batteries lighter weight and smaller, thereby contributing to HEV system cost reduction and to improvements in design flexibility and durability.
TCC is committed to LIB separator technology development and production process improvements. It has more than 20 years of research and development in LIB separators and has supplied its proprietary separators for the world's first commercial rechargeable LIB. TCC has collaborated with ExxonMobil Chemical, one of the global polyolefins technology leaders, to develop a new generation of advanced performance LIB separators for HEV.
"The collaboration combines TCC's outstanding process technology and ExxonMobil Chemical's advanced polymer science technology," according to Junya Ishiyama, president of Tonen Chemical Nasu (TCN), wholly owned affiliate of TCC. "Our separators offer broader design flexibility with enhanced performance target to capture cost benefits of LIB HEV."
TCC will showcase the advanced performance separator films which have higher melt integrity and a significant reduction in heat shrinkage, while maintaining good permeability and tensile strength when compared to standard separators. In addition, the separators were developed for safety, quality and value featuring excellent melt down and shut-down properties, and uniquely balanced LIB power capacity and density.
Tonen Chemical Corporation manufactures petrochemical products such as ethylene and propylene in Japan, and sells them as the raw materials for polyethylene and other polymers to its affiliate, Nippon Unicar Corp., and other customers. Information on Tonen Chemical can be found at tonengeneral.co.jp/tonengeneral/english/index.html.
Tonen Chemical Nasu Co., Ltd. is a leading supplier of separators for lithium ion batteries. The company's product was adopted for the world's first commercial lithium ion battery in 1991.
ExxonMobil Chemical is a global leader in technology, product quality and customer service with petrochemical manufacturing and/or marketing operations in more than 150 countries around the world. Its products include olefins, aromatics, fluids, synthetic rubber, polyethylene, polypropylene, oriented polypropylene packaging films, plasticizers, synthetic lubricant basestocks and additives for fuels and lubricants. Information on ExxonMobil Chemical can be found at www.exxonmobilchemical.com.
Editor's notes:
1) The terms ExxonMobil, ExxonMobil Chemical, Tonen Chemical, Tonen Chemical Nasu, our and its, as used in this news release, sometimes refer not only to ExxonMobil Chemical Company, but collectively to some or all of those companies affiliated with Exxon Mobil Corporation which collaborate, conduct research or are otherwise involved in the separator films business. The shorter terms are merely for convenience.
2) ExxonMobil, and the ExxonMobil logo, are trademarks of Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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