Our Woodinville, WA facility is Group14’s world-class silicon battery materials R&D center, where the breakthroughs behind SCC55® are developed, validated, and prepared for global scale. This is where it all started, and where the future is being built.
BAM-1 began as Group14’s first commercial Battery Active Materials factory, and became the proof point that silicon battery materials could be manufactured reliably at scale. Today, it has evolved into a dedicated, best-in-class R&D center staffed by world-class scientists and engineers. Every advancement in SCC55® technology, every next-generation process improvement, and every manufacturing breakthrough that reaches our global factories starts here in Woodinville.
BAM-1 houses a state-of-the-art battery materials lab capable of producing gram scale to thousands of kilograms of development materials enabling rapid scale-up from proof of concepts to pilot scale production. This unique capability enables rigorous, high-volume testing and iteration that goes far beyond conventional lab-scale research. This means our scientists can move faster, validate more confidently, and deliver better materials to our global manufacturing network.
BAM-1’s advanced material characterization lab provides the analytical tools to investigate the structural, chemical, and physical properties of materials from lab scale to pilot scale. Our scientists use unique techniques to rapidly screen new materials and use the information for new process and product development as well as technical support for other production sites.
BAM-1’s advanced cell production capabilities from coin cells to pouch cells allow our team to take materials directly from synthesis into full cell evaluation, closing the loop between material innovation and real-world battery performance. By integrating cell production into the early-stage R&D process, we accelerate the path from discovery to deployment across every application we serve.
