Exopack To Supply Current Collector For Battery On New Electric Car

MATTHEWS, N.C.—A decade-long program to develop specially coated conductive foil current collectors and use them in new all-solid lithium polymeric metal (LPM) battery for electric cars is paying off for Exopack Advanced Coatings™.

The company has been awarded the business to supply critical current collectors for batteries designed to power a 100-percent electric car now under development by a European partnership. The joint venture—involving Bollore Group, a diversified French company and Pininfarina, an Italian niche automaker—plans to produce and deliver 20,000 of the emissions-free vehicles to buyers in Europe, Japan and the U.S. by 2012.