FREYR Battery has provided an update on the company's operational progress at the Customer Qualification Plant in Mo i Rana, Norway. Successful automated cathode casting trials: Following successful adjustments to the cathode casting equipment that included updates to the vacuum system, last week, FREYR?s teams at the CQP commenced automated cathode casting runs at a minimum nozzle distance of 0.26 mm. The CQP teams have subsequently conducted successful cathode casting runs using the cathode web and solvent slurry at fixed nozzle distances of 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm, respectively, and at speeds of 2 meters per minute while using 100 psi of casting pressure.

These successful automated cathode casting runs with solvent slurry were an important precursor to completing the Casting and Unit Cell Assembly commissioning packages and the eventual start of automated CQP production. CQP commissioning status and key next steps: Following the successful automated cathode casting trials, FREYR has completed handovers of 342 (88%) of the 388 discrete production line equipment commissioning and testing packages at the CQP. The test center packages and handovers to operations are all complete.

The next technical requirements to stay on track with FREYR?s anticipated completion cadence at the CQP are: Replicate the successful automated cathode casting trials with the anode production line system; and Integrate the casting webs across the cathode, anode, and merge units of the Casting and Unit Cell Assembly equipment using the highly complex Multi-Carrier Systems (?MCS?) to reach automated cell production.