TIDMIEH
Intelligent Energy Holdings PLC
08 May 2017
NEWS RELEASE
Intelligent Energy takes technical lead in programme to further
develop fuel cell stack for future mass manufacture
Loughborough, UK - 8 May 2017
A programme has launched to provide a blueprint to enable fully
automated future mass manufacture of fuel cell stacks for the
automotive market. Intelligent Energy is the programme's technology
lead with overall coordination provided by CEA Tech-Liten. The two
companies will front a pan-European industry group to further
commercialise fuel cells for the mass automotive market.
The programme, named DIGIMAN, is a EUR3.5 million programme,
receiving funding from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint
Undertaking (FCH JU) under the EU programme Horizon 2020, which
will focus on creating a robust platform for future stack
production for zero emission vehicles. Also involved in the three
year programme are Freudenberg Performance Materials SE&Co.KG,
WMG at the University of Warwick, and Toyota Motor Europe. The
latter will be responsible for best practice requirements for
future automotive stack production. Project management support and
communication activities will be provided by the SME Pretexo.
Representatives from the partner organisations gathered at
Intelligent Energy's Loughborough headquarters recently to kick off
the scope of work. The programme outputs will demonstrate
operational and supply chain cost reduction via seamless
integration of digital manufacturing techniques and advanced
technology optimised for automated production. Once developed, the
blueprint design will enable build-to-print machine configurations
with ready to scale production capacity to meet future requirements
of more than 50,000 fuel cell stacks by 2020.
Intelligent Energy's Head of Manufacturing, Richard Peart said:
"Hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles are available now, but to
continue to drive customer adoption, we need to ensure future fuel
cell stacks are robustly industrialised and remain cost competitive
in the future. The programme will bring significant opportunity to
further develop Intelligent Energy's proprietary Air Cooled fuel
cell architecture. Additionally, as Intelligent Energy's Air Cooled
fuel cell stack technology operates across multiple products and
applications, the project will benefit commercialisation within
multiple market sectors, including stationary power and
drones."
Martin Bloom, Group CEO at Intelligent Energy, added: "As the
adoption of hydrogen technologies continues to gather pace,
Intelligent Energy is ideally placed to be the technical lead on
this programme. With the wealth of experience we have in this area
resulting from our on-going joint manufacturing venture with Suzuki
(SMILE), in addition to almost 30 years of fuel cell development,
we have the know-how and capability to ensure we support and
mobilise this ecosystem of partners."
Bart Biebuyck, Executive Director of the FCH2 JU, said: "The
reduction of the production cost of fuel cell systems to be used in
transport applications is one of the five techno-economic
objectives of the FCH, and Digiman fully contributes to the overall
strategy. The project will indeed improve the manufacturing
techniques by reducing the production time and costs, and increase
the quality levels of PEMFC stacks. The project, which gathers
industry, academia and research centres, is contributing to
maintain Europe at the competitive edge on the key technologies for
clean transport."
This project has received funding from the Fuel Cells and
Hydrogen 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 736290. This
Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union's
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Hydrogen Europe and
N.ERGHY.
Ends
About Intelligent Energy
Intelligent Energy Holdings plc delivers clean energy solutions
for the distributed energy, diesel replacement, automotive and
aerial drone markets. Working with international companies,
Intelligent Energy aims to embed its fuel cell stack technology
into applications across its target market sectors.
With its principal facility and headquarters in Loughborough,
UK, the company also operates in Japan, India, China, Singapore,
France and the US. Intelligent Energy Holdings plc is listed on the
London Stock Exchange (LSE: IEH.L).
More information on Intelligent Energy is available at Twitter,
YouTube and LinkedIn. Or visit
http://www.intelligent-energy.com
About the FCH JU
The Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) is a
unique public private partnership supporting research,
technological development and demonstration (RTD) activities in
fuel cell and hydrogen energy technologies in Europe. Its aim is to
accelerate the market introduction of these technologies, realising
their potential as an instrument in achieving a carbon-lean energy
system. The three members of the FCH JU are the European
Commission, the fuel cell and hydrogen industries represented by
Hydrogen Europe and the research community represented by Research
Grouping N.ERGHY.
Further information on the project partners:
-- CEA Tech - LITEN: http://liten.cea.fr/cea-tech/liten/
CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy
Commission, a European leader in research, development and
innovation. CEA-LITEN is composed of 1000 employees, and is the
institute of CEA dedicated to new energy technologies, focussing on
three key areas: solar energy, hydrogen and fuel cells, and
advanced materials, addressing electricity production, building,
transport and mobile electronics as main markets.
-- Toyota Motor Europe: https://www.toyota-europe.com/
-- Freudenberg: http://www.freudenberg-pm.com/
-- WMG: www.wmg.warwick.ac.uk
WMG was established by Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in
1980 in order to reinvigorate UK manufacturing through the
application of cutting edge research and effective knowledge
transfer. WMG is a world leading research and education group and
an academic department of the University of Warwick.
WMG has pioneered an international model for working with
industry, commerce and public sectors and holds a unique position
between academia and industry. The Group's strength is to provide
companies with the opportunity to gain a competitive edge by
understanding a company's strategy and working in partnership with
them to create, through multidisciplinary research, ground-breaking
products, processes and services.
-- Pretexo: http://www.pretexo.com
Media Contact
Debbie Hughes, Head of PR
D +441509 271921
E debbie.hughes@intelligent-energy.com
Helen Roberts, Hill & Knowlton
D +44 (0)20 7413 3081
M +44 (0)7584 270686
E helen.roberts@hkstrategies.com
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
END
NRAZELFBDEFFBBB
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 08, 2017 02:00 ET (06:00 GMT)
Lb-Shell (LSE:LBP)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2024 to May 2024
Lb-Shell (LSE:LBP)
Historical Stock Chart
From May 2023 to May 2024