Metso is to introduce pilot and demo plants for the development and production of pCAM, supporting customers in their pCAM-related R&D and process development. These pilot and demo plants are based on advanced pCAM plant technology launched in 2024. This intelligent Metso Plus solution is designed for the manufacture of the precursor cathode active material needed in the production of lithium-ion batteries. 

“Metso’s pCAM plants are designed to address the growing demand for high-quality precursor materials. The pilot and demo plants are standardized solutions that enable customers to optimize pCAM quality and scale up production using Metso’s technology. Metso’s pCAM process automation and online analyzers reduce the need for laboratory analysis and parameter adjustments made by operators,” says Markus Koponen, Technology Manager, Precursors.

The OKTOP pCAM pilot plant enables the scaling up of pCAM development from the laboratory to a scale where it is possible to study pCAM precipitation phenomena in more detail and start to produce customer samples for battery evaluation. A typical delivery entails reagent feed, precipitation and filtration equipment. The heart of the pCAM process is precipitation, which includes a 0.1 mn OKTOP pCAM pilot reactor and a PSI 1000 online particle size analyzer with auxiliaries.