CAP-XX: Super-capacitor Technology Product Development & Manufacturing

Client

CAP-XX

Product

Commercialization of new global electronics technology

Awards

AusIndustry Award for Excellence in Innovation & Commercialisation of R&D (Highly Commended)

Frost & Sullivan 2008 Asia Pacific Industrial

Technologies Award for Technology Innovation of the Year

Frost & Sullivan 2006 Technology Innovation of the Year Award for Nanotech-Enabled Energy Devices Technology

Background

CAP-XX was a start-up company with new super-capacitor technology, and significant potential in an emerging global market.

Our Ingenuity

We worked closely with the CAP-XX scientific team to develop a range of product designs for their target markets.

Product design and chemistry development moved forward hand-in-hand. Innovative use of barrier films provided the moisture and oxygen barrier required, and now-patented techniques for interconnection of cells were developed.

Our role included:

• Application of packaging materials to meet the barrier properties, cost of goods and dimensional targets
• development of an innovative, patented design for a family of high quality electronic products
• identify a product design that minimized cost, and was suitable for high-volume manufacture
• establish an automated production process from manual laboratory status
• construct pilot manufacturing equipment for product and process development and market trials
• devise a manufacturing investment strategy for cost effective, low risk, scale-up from initial R&D through to high-volume manufacturing across multiple sites
• develop high-volume manufacturing equipment delivering the quality and cost targets required for commercial success
• support cultural change from R&D into manufacturing
• support expansion to offshore contract manufacture
• assignment of project IP to client

Your Advantage

In its initial 4 years of production, CAP-XX shipped 1.5 million super-capacitors to customers worldwide and saw turnover rise from US.03 million in 2004 to US.1 million in 2006.

The company is now listed on the UK stock exchange.