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UKBIC Battery Development Laboratory

UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC)Coventry

UKBIC announced the opening of its upgraded 240 m² Battery Development Laboratory on 4 February 2025. The named on-site laboratory characterises battery materials, analyses and tears down cells, and undertakes electrochemical testing. The current laboratory page separately lists its chemical-analysis equipment, while the contact page identifies the Coventry facility and customer enquiry routes.

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Key facts

Public information not available. Contact test facility provider for more information.

Testing capabilities

Battery-material characterisation and processing

The opening announcement describes morphology, crystal structure, elemental/material composition and thermal-stability analysis, plus protected sample processing and a coin-cell assembly glovebox. The current laboratory page lists ICP-OES, GC-MS, TGA, infrared spectroscopy and XRD.

Cell forensics and non-destructive analysis

The dated laboratory announcement describes thermal/optical imaging, safe cell teardown, microscopy and dimension measurement. CT cell analysis is described as a strategic partnership between UKBIC and Waygate Technologies, separate from the laboratory’s own equipment statements.

Electrochemistry on coin and pouch cells

The laboratory announcement describes advanced electrochemical analysis on coin cells and single-layer or multi-layer pouch cells, including extended cycling and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.

Equipment and published limits

Published equipment limits and conditions
SpecificationPublished valueConditions
Announced laboratory area240 m²Area stated in the 4 February 2025 opening announcement; it does not define an individual cell, fixture or test-capacity envelope.

Access and contact

The named laboratory announcement says clients can bring materials and cells to UKBIC for analysis. The current contact page publishes sales@ukbic.co.uk for sales enquiries and info@ukbic.co.uk for general enquiries. Specify the material/cell, analysis question, cell condition, reporting and desired development stage.

Facility contact

Address
Rowley Road, Baginton
Coventry, CV8 3AL

Standards and accreditation

Public information not available. Contact test facility provider for more information.

What to confirm with the facility

  • The February 2025 announcement describes the flexible development line as a future capability and the clean/dry zone as due to open. The homepage’s June and July 2026 news still describes pilot-line installation and a final phase. These originals do not establish completed pilot-line operation or transfer its capacity into the laboratory guide.
  • Confirm current equipment and partnership access, safe cell acceptance, sample preparation, requested technique, reporting, commercial terms and quotation. No common accredited range or combined equipment envelope is stated.

Before requesting a test

Public information not available. Contact test facility provider for more information.

Frequently asked questions

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  • Sheffield Electrical Energy Storage Research and Testing Reference

    Compare battery-cell cycling and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for the proposed article. Agree coin/pouch or other cell, chemistry, cycling duty, EIS settings, channel limits and research/report arrangements; Sheffield provision is institutional. Current institutional cell cycling/EIS and cell-to-pack/second-life battery research support explicitly institutional comparisons. No single Sheffield building, channel envelope or external service is inferred.

  • WMG Battery Safety Centre

    Compare safe battery-cell teardown for failure investigation for the proposed article. Agree cell chemistry, state of charge, suspected failure and controlled teardown procedure; wider-provider CT or microscopy is not local BSC apparatus. The named operational Battery Safety Centre supports destructive cell/module abuse, calorimetry, gas/propagation and safe teardown methods. Exact arrival address and separately accessed wider-WMG CT/microscopy allocation remain unresolved.

Further reading

  • Electrical, power and batteries

    Browse electrical, power and batteries for Electrochemistry on coin and pouch cells. Compare the documented article, method and conditions in each entry.

  • Inspection and failure analysis

    Browse inspection and failure analysis for Cell forensics and non-destructive analysis. Compare the documented article, method and conditions in each entry.

  • Write a test procedure for a requirement

    For battery-cell cycling and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; safe battery-cell teardown for failure investigation; Cell forensics and non-destructive analysis, specify the material or product, preparation, apparatus, loading or measurement steps and required observations before requesting a report.

Sources and review

Arc reviewed the original sources on 2026-10-13. The cited material supports the bounded site information presented here. Test suitability and commercial arrangements require direct confirmation.

Arc publishes this directory entry and does not operate the test facility. Suggest a correction to Arc with a supporting source.

  1. UKBIC opens new advanced Battery Development Laboratory

    UK Battery Industrialisation Centre · Reviewed

    The dated opening announcement names the on-site 240 m² laboratory, five areas of work and the CT partnership. Future flexible-line and clean/dry-zone wording is retained as planned at publication; media contacts are not used as booking routes. Evidence uses an append-only decoded .content extraction bound to the preserved JSON response.

  2. UKBIC facility overview and dated pilot-line news

    UK Battery Industrialisation Centre · Reviewed

    The current homepage describes the Coventry open-access battery-development facility and displays 2026 installation/final-phase pilot-line news. It does not establish completed operation of the pilot line. Evidence uses a decoded extraction bound to the preserved JSON response.

  3. UKBIC testing laboratory highlights

    UK Battery Industrialisation Centre · Reviewed

    The current named laboratory page lists ICP-OES, GC-MS, TGA, infrared spectroscopy and XRD. It gives no numerical accredited range or blanket test-standard approval. Evidence uses a decoded extraction bound to the original JSON response.

  4. UKBIC customer contacts and visitor address

    UK Battery Industrialisation Centre · Reviewed

    The contact page publishes distinct sales, media, supplier, training and general routes and the Rowley Road, Baginton, Coventry address. No county, slot or quotation is inferred. Evidence uses a decoded extraction bound to the original JSON response.