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India’s First Lithium Cell Plant

Posted on September 17, 2022 by admin1  66

In News 

  • The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)will inaugurate India’s first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

About plant

  • The  state-of-the-art facility has been set up by the Chennai based Munoth Industries Limited with an outlay of Rs. 165 crores. 
  • The facility is located in one of the two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters set up in the temple town, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015.
  • The installed capacity of the plant at present is 270 Mwh and can produce 20,000 cells of 10Ah capacity daily. 
  • These cells are used in power banks and this capacity is around 60 percent of India’s present requirement.
    • Currently India imports complete requirements of lithium-ion cells primarily from China, South Korea, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
  • Cells for other consumer electronics like Mobile Phones, hearable and wearable devices will also be produced.

Significance 

  • This plant will be a step in the direction of realising Prime Minister Modi’s vision of making India the global hub of electronic manufacturing.

Lithium 

  • Discovered in 1817 by Swedish chemist Johan August Arfwedson in the mineral petalite, lithium is also found in brine deposits.
  • Lithium is also found in pegmatite ores, such as spodumene (LiAlSi2O6) and lepidolite (of varying structure), or in amblygonite (LiAlFPO4) ores.

Source:PIB

 
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