Future-proofing cathode materials manufacturing.
Sylvatex (SVX) is transforming how cathode active materials are made. Our precursor-free manufacturing platform uses no additional water, domestic inputs, and proven equipment to reduce cost, capital requirements, and environmental impact while strengthening Western battery supply chains.
Berkeley Lab
Argonne
ARPA-E
NSF
USDA
New Energy Nexus
CalTestBed
California Energy Commission The energy transition and the planet's growing energy demands need a better manufacturing foundation.
Electrification cannot depend on costly, resource-intensive processes and concentrated overseas supply chains. SVX is building a more efficient pathway to cathode active materials using domestic inputs, fewer process steps, and a manufacturing platform designed for regional scale that needs no additional water.
The cathode is the bottleneck to scaling batteries in the West.
Battery demand is scaling faster than resilient Western supply chains can be built. Cathode active materials remain one of the most concentrated, capital-intensive, and environmentally burdensome parts of battery production.
Conventional manufacturing was designed around large overseas industrial clusters, complex precursor supply chains, and significant water and infrastructure requirements. Replicating that model in the United States and allied markets is expensive, slow, and vulnerable to geopolitical disruption.
SVX is developing a more practical pathway: direct cathode manufacturing from domestic inputs using fewer process steps and commercially available equipment.
A drop-in material, engineered for resilient manufacturing.
Our proprietary process produces advanced cathode active materials without a conventional precursor stage or additional water. Fewer steps, commercially proven equipment, and a smaller plant footprint reduce the cost, capital, and environmental burden of domestic production while enabling faster, more efficient scale-up. The process achieves conversion costs that are competitive with, and potentially lower than, those of conventional Chinese processes, even before tariffs, incentives, subsidies, or other policy support.
Lower cost
Fewer process steps and lower-cost domestic inputs reduce conversion costs and simplify the supply chain.
Lower capital
Commercially available equipment, a simplified plant design, and a smaller footprint reduce the capital required to establish regional cathode active material production.
Lower environmental impact
A closed-loop process that needs no additional water reduces energy use, waste, and manufacturing emissions.
Built to scale
A simplified process based on commercially proven equipment reduces scale-up risk and enables modular regional production.
One platform. Three strategic markets.
SVX technology is chemistry-agnostic and industry-agnostic, deployable wherever lithium-ion batteries power the energy and strategic future.
Grid & Data Center Energy Storage
Rising electricity demand from AI, data centers, manufacturing, and grid electrification is accelerating the need for affordable, domestically produced energy storage. SVX offers a lower-capital pathway to scale the cathode materials required for reliable, secure storage deployment.
Defense & National Security
Critical defense systems require battery materials that are secure, traceable, and independent of adversarial supply chains. SVX enables domestic cathode production using locally available inputs and equipment designed for regional scale.
Electric Mobility
Reaching cost parity with internal-combustion vehicles requires continued reductions in battery cost without compromising performance or supply security. SVX provides lower-cost, FEOC-compliant cathode active materials designed as a drop-in solution for existing battery manufacturing systems.
Momentum, on the record.
Critical Materials Crossroads Selected for NSF Regional Innovation Engines Award, with Sylvatex as a Project Partner.
Sylvatex Founder Virginia Klausmeier Joins the Cellmates Podcast to Discuss the Future of Battery Materials.
Sylvatex Joins NVIDIA Inception to Accelerate Advanced Battery Materials Innovation.
Let's build a resilient battery economy.
SVX is collaborating with top-tier EV manufacturers and supply-chain partners on qualifying materials and scaling production. We'd love to work with you.