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Bulls N' Bears 06 Jan 2026

Altech booms after securing €46M German grant for salt battery project

Altech Batteries' shares surged after receiving conditional binding approval for a €46.11 million German government grant to support its groundbreaking CERENERGY sodium-chloride solid-state battery project in Saxony, Germany. The non-dilutive funding, representing about 30 per cent of eligible capital costs, falls under Germany's federal STARK economic development program and materially reduces financing risk for the company's planned 120MWh annual production facility.

Bulls N' Bears 01 Dec 2025

Altech resets board for battery tech commercial drive

Altech Batteries has completed a full board overhaul, with new leadership focussed on turning its Cerenergy batteries and Silumina Anodes technologies from technical successes into commercial reality. The Cerenergy development supports a definitive feasibility study, a Standard and Poor's “Dark Green” credit-rating and proven non-combustible safety, while the Silumina anodes pilot plant is shipping alumina-coated silicon samples, which deliver up to 55 per cent higher energy density and over 1000 cycles in independent tests.

Technology, Innovation & Science 28 Nov 2025

Significant changes at Altech

A day after announcing that the final engineering design for its next-generation battery system had been completed, several key personnel have resigned from Altech Batteries.

Bulls N' Bears 27 Nov 2025

Altech clears final hurdle for salt battery production in Europe

Altech Batteries has locked in the final engineering design for its next gen sodium-nickel-chloride battery system clearing the last major hurdle before its first production next year. The company says its 400-volt units are set to roll off the line at partner AMPower's manufacturing facilities, before heading straight to Dutch gas pipeline facilities and industrial plants. The batteries are a much safer storage alternative to tradition lead-based and lithium-ion batteries.

Bulls N' Bears 06 Nov 2025

Altech long-term SNC battery data shows ultra-low fail rate

Altech Batteries says batteries utilising similar technology to its sodium-nickel-chloride batteries deployed in South Africa up to 15 years ago have exhibited failure rates of just 0.6% to 1.5%. The company says those rates blitz the failure rates of lithium and lead-acid batteries.

Altech Batteries' sodium-nickel-chloride battery

Bulls N' Bears 28 Oct 2025

Altech sodium-nickel-chloride batteries pass explosive test program

Altech Batteries has run its sodium-nickel-chloride (SNC) batteries through an explosive series of safety destruction tests, with the high-tech batteries coming up trumps with zero thermal runaway, fire or explosion. A full suite of extreme safety, self-destruction tests demonstrated the game-changing mechanical and chemical stability of the batteries, passing the exhaustive testwork with flying colours.

Bulls N' Bears 09 Oct 2025

Altech Silumina achieves breakthrough in battery capacity retention

Altech Batteries is hailing a breakthrough with a major advance in its Silumina Anodes technology, recording 88.5% capacity retention after 500 charge-discharge cycles by adding just 5% alumina-coated silicon to graphite anodes. The company's latest Silumina Anodes deliver a charge capacity of 420 mAh/g which far surpasses graphite's capacity in the range of 230-250 mAh/g. Altech's Saxony pilot plant confirms scalability, promising longer EV range and lighter batteries.

Bulls N' Bears 30 Sep 2025

Altech partners to sell salt batteries in key global markets

Altech Batteries has signed a collaboration agreement with Chinese battery producer AMPower to sell its sodium nickel chloride battery systems in Australia, Europe and the US. Altech has fast-tracked market entry for its fireproof, long-life alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, while advancing its CERENERGY energy storage facility project in Germany. Co-development of small and medium-sized systems will follow while protecting IP on both sides.

Bulls N' Bears 12 Sep 2025

Altech batteries proved safe and efficient for long-lasting energy storage

Altech Batteries' CERENERGY prototype cells have delivered more than 650 cycles with no capacity loss, 92 per cent energy efficiency and near-100 per cent Coulombic efficiency, outperforming conventional batteries. Its 60kWh battery pack also showed 88 per cent efficiency over more than 110 cycles with no degradation, confirming its safety under extreme conditions. A €46.7M German grant will support Altech's 120MWh Saxony facility to advance production of grid-scale energy storage.

Bulls N' Bears 02 Sep 2025

Altech sodium battery eligible for €46.7M German grant

Altech Batteries has been approved as eligible for a proposed €46.725 million (A$83.55 million) German government grant to further develop the company's groundbreaking CERENERGY sodium-chloride solid-state battery project in Saxony. The grant endorsement recognises Altech's vision to redefine energy storage with a sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries, using the humble power of table salt, reflecting Europe's plan to transition to renewables.

Bulls N' Bears 16 May 2025

28-year old battery validates Altech salt battery tech

Altech Batteries has seamlessly revived a 28-year-old sodium-nickel-chloride battery that uses a primitive version of its own modern-day salt based “Cerenergy” battery technology. Altech says the old battery kicked into gear without hesitation after 28 years, showing that its own similar but more advanced battery technology is based on a solid foundation.

Altech Batteries German pilot plant producing alumina-coated silicon anodes

Bulls N' Bears 06 May 2025

Altech marks milestone as it pumps out novel battery anodes

Altech Batteries is pumping out its high-tech Silumina anodes from its German pilot plant, marking a milestone for the company as it supplies first product to potential customers for testing and sets itself up for future commercial production. The new-age technology has achieved a significant breakthrough by coating silicon particles with alumina, boosting the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries by up to 55 per cent.

Altech has secured a bond facility up for up to $4.3 million

Bulls N' Bears 25 Mar 2025

Major shareholder backs Altech with $4.3m bond facility

Altech Batteries has locked in the backing of a major shareholder, German-based investment firm Deutsche Balaton AG, by securing funding via a bond note facility for up to €2.5 million (A$4.3m) to further develop its new-age battery projects. The company has land in Johor, Malaysia, for sale and expects the proceeds will be sufficient to repay any borrowed funds.

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Bulls N' Bears 17 Mar 2025

Altech scores approval to build German battery facility

Altech Batteries has secured the necessary environmental and construction permit to build the company's Cerenergy GridPack production facility in Saxony, Germany, and can now focus on locking in pr

Bulls N' Bears 28 Feb 2025

Altech company restructure increases stake in salt battery tech

Altech Batteries is cleaning up its corporate structure by offering to buy the remaining minority stakes in its CERENERGY and Silumina Anodes projects from German-listed subsidiary Altech Advanced Materials. The $23.3m all-scrip deal increases Altech's ownership to 75 per cent of CERENERGY and all of Silumina Anodes, strengthening its control over the company's advanced salt battery technology

Bulls N' Bears 24 Jan 2025

Highest S&P green rating opens funding door for Altech salt battery

Altech Batteries has been awarded “Dark Green” certification, the highest rating offered by global ratings agency S&P, for its salt battery project, opening the door to funding from the massive green bond market. The company believes the accolade has underscored the project's potential to redefine battery technology and shines a light on what it says is possibly the greenest battery technology available today.

Bulls N' Bears 18 Dec 2024

Altech seals third deal for salt batteries to German NATO supplier

Altech Batteries has sealed a third offtake agreement with Axsol GmbH, a defence market renewable energy solutions supplier for NATO based in Germany. The partnership is set to provide Axsol with up to 120MWh of energy storage over the first five years from Altech's groundbreaking lithium-ion battery alternative Cerenergy solid-state salt batteries.

Bulls N' Bears 26 Nov 2024

Altech grabs second offtake deal for salt cell batteries

Altech has locked in a second offtake agreement, this time with Reflau, a renewable energy project in Germany, to supply it with 158MWh of storage energy capacity over 5 years from its salt powered batteries. Only a few days ago Altech revealed it has received interest to fund its manufacturing facility in Germany.

Bulls N' Bears 22 Nov 2024

Altech rolls out funding strategy for salt battery plant

Altech Batteries has received interest from debt funders for its cutting-edge proposed sodium chloride battery project that it plans to build using a mix of debt, equity, government grants and offtake agreements. The company is planning to produce its “Cerenergy GridPack” batteries courtesy of a 120MWh manufacturing facility in Germany. Remarkably, the active ingredient in the batteries is plain table salt.

Bulls N' Bears 17 Oct 2024

Supercharged breakthrough as Altech boosts battery energy

Subiaco-based Altech Batteries has supercharged its alumina-coated silicon anodes to boost the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries by 55 per cent after combining graphite with its high-tech anodes. The company says the game-changing results stem from its strategy to coat silicon particles with alumina, overcoming previous drawbacks associated with using silicone as an anode material.

Bulls N' Bears 01 Oct 2024

Altech salt battery prototype launches with ‘flying colours’

Altech Batteries has clocked up a key milestone with the successful launch of its first 60kWh “Cerenergy” sodium-chloride battery prototype in Germany. The company says the battery unit, which has been installed at the Fraunhofer IKTS lab in Dresden, has passed all physical tests with “flying colours” and has smashed through forecast performance and efficiency expectations in the rigorous daily assessments.

Bulls N' Bears 13 Sep 2024

Altech inks five-year German deal for salt cell batteries

Altech Batteries has inked a letter of intent to supply 30 of its 1MWh Cerenergy GridPack sodium chloride batteries annually to be used at a major German industrial park for energy storage as part of a five-year deal starting in 2027. The agreement has been struck with consultancy firm Zweckverband Industriepark Schwarze Pumpe, which oversees the park in the Lusatia region of south-east Germany.

Bulls N' Bears 16 Jul 2024

Altech “salt” battery cell tests exceed energy expectations

Altech Batteries says cells for its “Cerenergy” sodium chloride battery prototypes have shown “higher-than-expected” energy capacities during a testing program at several Fraunhofer IKTS facilities in Germany. The company has today confirmed it has completed the fabrication, assembly and initialisation of all 240 cells for the first prototype at its pilot plant and expects to mount the finished modules into a full “BatteryPack” next week.

Bulls N' Bears 20 Mar 2024

Altech eyes €51m annual profit from German battery project

Altech Batteries has revealed a compelling set of numbers for its planned Cerenergy battery project in Germany, with its DFS forecasting a NPV of €169 million and annual revenue of €106 million generating EBITDA earnings of a juicy €51million per annum. The company says capital cost estimates of €156 million and a steady-state payback period of 3.7 years add to the project's appeal.

Bulls N' Bears 06 Feb 2024

Altech powering towards “salt” battery pack production

Altech Batteries is getting closer to producing its Cerenergy solid-state battery pack that uses ordinary table-variety salt following an upgrade which has transformed its previously small trial batteries up to a 60kWh capacity. The upgrade came after Altech established a strategic joint venture with Germany's Fraunhofer IKTS, which had initially developed battery packs with 5kWh and 10kWh capacities for testing.

Bulls N' Bears 21 Dec 2023

Altech DFS predicts AU$5b EBITDA for anodes project

Altech Batteries has forecast a stunning project life EBITDA of more than €3.08 billion (AU$5 billion) for its 8000 tonnes per annum Silumina Anodes project in Germany following the completion of a definitive feasibility study. The facility will produce patented alumina-coated silicon battery anode materials known as Silumina Anodes to meet high demand in the European and US electric vehicle and grid storage battery markets.

Bulls N' Bears 14 Nov 2023

Altech declares “eightfold” increase for Silumina output

Altech Batteries says a decision to remove graphite from a definitive feasibility study into its Silumina Anodes pilot plant in Germany has triggered an “eightfold” output increase to 8000 tonnes per annum of alumina-coated silicon. The modified study, which reveals the increase from 1000 tonnes per annum, is in response to customer preferences and has been achieved with no change to the plant or equipment.

Bulls N' Bears 03 Nov 2023

More power to Altech at German battery plant

Altech Batteries says a definitive feasibility study shows it will be able to pump out 20 per cent more power than expected at its proposed Cerenergy sodium chloride solid-state grid battery plant in Germany. Through technical design optimisation, alongside lead engineering company Leadec and joint venture partner Fraunhofer, Altech believes it will now be able to produce 120 of its 1MWh “GridPacks” per year.

Bulls N' Bears 24 Oct 2023

Altech reveals new sodium chloride battery pack design

Altech Batteries has unveiled the new design for its 60KWh Cerenergy sodium chloride solid-state battery pack and now has two prototypes under construction by its project partner, the Fraunhofer Institute in the German city of Dresden. The pack has been upgraded to improve structural integrity, cell retention and connectivity, heat loss and insulation and the ability to endure all temperature extremes.

Bulls N' Bears 03 Oct 2023

Altech battery plant cuts through German red tape

Altech Batteries has notched up a win that will see permitting for its 100MWh battery project in Germany go through State approval, bypassing the more complex Federal process and expediting its mission. The company is in joint venture with Fraunhofer IKTS to commercialise the battery plant, which is designed to meet the demands of the stationary energy storage market.

Bulls N' Bears 29 Aug 2023

Pilot plant update a boost for looming Altech DFS

Altech Batteries has revealed a vital update for key aspects of its Silumina Anodes pilot plant in the German State of Saxony to help progress its definitive feasibility study for a 10,000 tonnes per annum operation. The company says permitting, site design and supplier quotations are also advanced. An earlier prefeasibility study returned a net present value of US$507 million (AU$787 million).

Bulls N' Bears 11 Jul 2023

Cerenergy batteries “greener and cleaner”, says Altech

European-focused Altech Batteries is seeking a green nod of approval for its Cerenergy sodium-chloride battery from renowned environmental research centre CICERO after a study found it emitted 50 per cent fewer greenhouse gases than lithium-ion batteries – and without needing critical metals, lithium and cobalt. Altech's planned Cerenergy battery plant in Saxony will utilise renewable energy sources to minimise its carbon footprint.

Bulls N' Bears 03 Jul 2023

Suppliers in place to turbocharge Altech battery plant

European-focused Altech Batteries has engaged a group of suppliers with extensive backgrounds in automation and robotics to help power its move into the next phase of plant construction as part of its Cerenergy battery project in Saxony, Germany. Management says the design of the plant is aimed at completing one battery cell every 45 seconds as the project's definitive feasibility study continues to gather momentum.

Bulls N' Bears 13 Jun 2023

Altech reveals specs for grid storage batteries

European-focused Altech Batteries has unveiled its preliminary specifications for two products aimed at the burgeoning grid power storage battery market, in a move it predicts will kickstart discussions with potential buyers. The storage batteries, which the Subiaco-based company says outperforms lithium-ion batteries on many levels, will be built in Germany in a joint venture with its partner, Fraunhofer IKTS.

Bulls N' Bears 09 May 2023

Altech fast-tracks “salt” battery prototype production

Subiaco-based Altech Batteries has fast-tracked the final prototype of its unique battery pack that uses ordinary table variety salt instead of expensive and scarce minerals. The company's ABS60 battery pack, that it is planning to manufacture in Germany, is aimed at the burgeoning renewable energy and grid storage markets. Altech says it has the potential to be a “game-changer”.

Bulls N' Bears 14 Apr 2023

Altech unveils first look at battery technology pilot plant

Altech Batteries has unveiled a stunning first look at its cutting-edge Silumina Anodes pilot plant in Germany after completing the construction of its laboratory, power supply and wet-circuit infrastructure. The company's patented high-capacity and high-purity alumina-coated silicon and graphite anodes are designed for use in lithium-ion batteries. Its pilot plant is due to be scaled up to a 10,000 tonnes per annum production facility.

Bulls N' Bears 29 Mar 2023

Altech reveals breakthrough high-tech battery GridPack

Altech Batteries has launched what it says is game-changing technology in the design of its new sodium chloride battery “GridPack”, which it expects to be up to 40 per cent cheaper to produce than lithium-ion batteries. Designed for the renewable energy storage market, the battery uses sodium ions found in table salt and avoids using scarce and expensive metals such as lithium, cobalt, graphite and copper.

Bulls N' Bears 13 Mar 2023

Altech pockets $5 million for part sale of subsidiary

ASX and Frankfurt-listed Altech Batteries has received A$5.12 million as the first of two deferred instalment payments from Frankfurt-listed Altech Advanced Materials for the purchase of 25 per cent of Aletch Batteries subsidiary Altech Industries Germany GmbH. The final instalment of 1.583 million euros or approximately A$2.5 million is payable in December 2023 completing the deal done in December 2020.

Bulls N' Bears 24 Feb 2023

Altech Batteries launched after name change

Altech Chemicals has held a successful shareholders vote to approve a name change to Altech Batteries Limited to better reflect the company's direction of “meeting a battery storage future”. The ASX ticker will remain ATC. Altech has three battery focused projects, Silumina lithium-ion battery anodes, Cerenergy- an alternative to grid storage batteries and a high-purity alumina project.

Bulls N' Bears 07 Feb 2023

Altech races patented anodes towards battery market

Altech Chemicals believes the commissioning of its Silumina lithium-ion battery anode pilot scale plant in Germany is destined for the third quarter of 2023. The plant will be scaled up to a 10,000 tonne per annum production facility for which a Definitive Feasibility Study is progressing in tandem with the plant's construction. The company is racing to meet the demand of the white-hot battery technology market.

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