- Former CTO of Continental Automobile and Group World takes over key place in CUSTOMCELLS Staff
- Bold enlargement direction in top class battery industry
- CUSTOMCELLS continues to attempt for additional internationalization and industrialization of manufacturing
Itzehoe/Tübingen, Would possibly 23, 2022. CUSTOMCELLS, some of the main corporations within the building and mass manufacturing of cutting-edge lithium-ion battery cells, is strengthening its most sensible control: Dr. Dirk Abendroth has been named the brand new CEO of the CUSTOMCELLS Staff. His function is to force the top class logo’s bold enlargement direction and broaden synergies between the CUSTOMCELLS Staff’s corporations and holdings, which come with the Cellforce Staff (CFG). Abendroth joins CUSTOMCELLS from the era preserving corporate Group World, the place he used to be Leader Era Officer (CTO). Previous to that, he used to be CTO within the Automobile Department at Continental, served as Vice President of Self sustaining Riding & Powertrain at Byton, and held quite a lot of government positions on the BMW Staff.
“Dirk Abendroth is bringing a few years of enjoy from giant companies in addition to start-ups and the challenge capital scene. He has a wealth of experience within the automobile and aerospace industries and is aware of electrical drives and new applied sciences,” says Leopold König, co-founder of CUSTOMCELLS. “At CUSTOMCELLS, he’ll straight away to find a number of strong footholds. For us, he’s all of the bundle.”
Torge Thönnessen, the opposite co-founder of CUSTOMCELLS, provides: “Our corporate is on a enlargement direction. The working CUSTOMCELLS corporations are already significantly increasing manufacturing and building capacities. To proceed in this trail, we’re fortifying ourselves in key positions, which come with the highest control. With Dirk Abendroth, we will be able to scale our concepts and grow to be a world participant for top class battery cells in Germany. His community, leading edge power, and world enjoy make him the perfect candidate for the activity.”
Environment the tempo for the technological transformation
Whilst Abendroth strikes to the highest of the CUSTOMCELLS Staff, the 2 CUSTOMCELLS founders, Leopold König and Torge Thönnessen, will stay managing administrators of the subsidiaries and joint ventures and concentrate on the operative industry to additional increase and scale it into top class area of interest markets. The prevailing, strong, and evolved constructions will stay in position, however the CUSTOMCELLS Staff plans to profit from the synergies between its corporations and holdings even higher. The function is to forge a sustainable trail to an impartial, world top class logo in battery mobile manufacturing, which continues to concentrate on its consumers and their particular necessities whilst drawing its leading edge power from science and analysis.
Due to the direction set in recent times, the battery mobile innovator – with manufacturing websites in Itzehoe and Tübingen – can proceed on its trail from lab-scale developer to mass manufacturing and be offering its consumers products and services alongside all of the worth chain, whether or not design, prototyping, mobile pattern collection, or the beginning of manufacturing, together with the in-house or exterior setup of micro and gigafactories. Due to its complete trade and technological experience within the building and manufacturing of high-performance battery cells, CUSTOMCELLS is the go-to spouse in a radically converting electrified global.
Dirk Abendroth to leverage synergies and scale top class area of interest markets
Abendroth, who holds a doctorate in electric engineering, started his profession at BMW, the place he held quite a lot of positions for twelve years. Maximum not too long ago, he served as Head of “Powertrain BMW i”. In 2016, he used to be Govt Vice President at Byton. There, he used to be chargeable for powertrain and self reliant using. In January 2019, Abendroth become CTO of Automobile at Continental AG. In July 2021, he joined serial founder Lukasz Gadowski’s world era preserving corporate Group World as CTO. Abendroth for my part holds twelve world patents within the fields of knowledge and digitalization, machine keep watch over, propulsion, and self reliant using. Greater than ten others are within the approval procedure.
Abendroth: “CUSTOMCELLS is a thrilling corporate. At the one hand, it’s nonetheless younger, agile, and structured; at the different, it has extraordinarily huge attainable in a long run trade. Turning CUSTOMCELLS into a world chief with a key position within the top class battery marketplace used to be precisely the problem I used to be in search of.” In his new position, Dirk Abendroth reviews to the shareholders of the CUSTOMCELLS Staff, which come with Porsche Ventures, Primepulse SE, 468 Capital, and Vsquared Ventures.
Large enlargement trajectory in 2022, AI in battery mobile manufacturing
CUSTOMCELLS expects huge enlargement in 2022. The company staff used to be already ready to extend the order worth of its tasks considerably in 2021 in comparison to the former 12 months and deepen the relationships with its current consumers. In doing so, CUSTOMCELLS has evolved even additional technologically and, amongst different issues, made development in using high-capacity lively fabrics, equivalent to silicon (SI) and in particular nickel-rich lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxides (NCM).
A distinct group with experience in digitalization is sustainably using the combination of man-made intelligence (AI) within the battery mobile trade, strengthening the corporate’s management in era. Along with companions, CUSTOMCELLS is operating to counter the dearth of professional employees within the trade and stay up the tempo of innovation. In doing so, the corporate goals to beef up its Eu provide chains in a focused method and consciously place itself as a sustainable innovator in Germany as a industry location.
About CUSTOMCELLS
CUSTOMCELLS is a number one corporate within the building and mass manufacturing of cutting-edge lithium-ion battery cells. In accordance with versatile production ideas and cutting-edge analysis and manufacturing amenities, CUSTOMCELLS develops and produces high-tech answers within the box of electrodes, electrolytes, battery cells, and battery modules – adapted to its consumers’ necessities. Its consumers quilt quite a lot of industries – with a focal point at the automobile, marine, oil and gasoline, and shortly, aviation sectors. Spun off from the Fraunhofer Institute in 2012, CUSTOMCELLS now employs greater than 150 extremely professional workers and operates two manufacturing and building websites in Itzehoe and Tübingen. CUSTOMCELLS Tübingen manufactures high quality lithium-ion batteries in automatic mass manufacturing and is without doubt one of the most present battery mobile manufacturing amenities in Europe. CUSTOMCELLS Itzehoe is without doubt one of the main manufacturers of custom designed battery cells and provides individualized answers for essentially the most difficult packages – from scientific era to self reliant underwater automobiles and electrical flying.
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Mike Eisermann
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Customized Cells Itzehoe GmbH
Fraunhoferstr. 1 b
25524 Itzehoe, Germany
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E-Mail: mike.eisermann@customcells.de
