• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen’ HD Advanced Technologies formed a strategic partnership with PHENOGY to build a Europe-based sodium-ion battery storage platform.
• HD Advanced Technologies will contract-manufacture PHENOGY stationary energy storage systems, covering sourcing, production, rollout, installation, service, maintenance.
• Production is set to start in Germany for Europe, with a later expansion planned in the US for North America.
• The partners are preparing a joint venture to develop, industrialize sodium-ion battery cells using PHENOGY cell chemistry, Heidelberg printing technology.
• The planned JV targets high-reliability uses such as critical infrastructure, defense, mobility, aiming to reduce dependence on non-European supply chains.

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