Sodium-Ion Battery Midstream & Downstream Update: Electrolyte Expansion Hesitant, Cell Applications Await Breakthroughs

๊ฒŒ์‹œ๋จ: Jun 5, 2026 17:05
After both sodium-ion battery cathodes and hard carbon anodes recorded significant increases YoY and MoM in May, the midstream and downstream segments of the industry chainโ€”electrolytes and battery cellsโ€”also delivered impressive results, yet structural issues lurk beneath the growth.

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[์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ: ์ œ๋„ˆ๋Ÿด ๋ชจํ„ฐ์Šค์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ํšŒ์‚ฌ, ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ]
2026๋…„ 6์›” 10์ผ 14:39
[์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ: ์ œ๋„ˆ๋Ÿด ๋ชจํ„ฐ์Šค์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ํšŒ์‚ฌ, ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ]
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[์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ: ์ œ๋„ˆ๋Ÿด ๋ชจํ„ฐ์Šค์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ํšŒ์‚ฌ, ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ]
[์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ: ์ œ๋„ˆ๋Ÿด ๋ชจํ„ฐ์Šค์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ํšŒ์‚ฌ, ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ]
6์›” 10์ผ, ์ œ๋„ˆ๋Ÿด ๋ชจํ„ฐ์Šค(GM)๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์—… ํ”ผํฌ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€(Peak Energy)์™€ ์ „๋žต์  ํ˜‘๋ ฅ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ์ฒด๊ฒฐํ•ด ๊ณ„ํ†ต ์—ฐ๊ณ„ํ˜• ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ์šฉ ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ณต๋™ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์†Œ์‹์ด ์ „ํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค. ์–‘์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ”ผํฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋™ ๋ƒ‰๊ฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ GM์˜ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์…€ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ด ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„์šฉ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์‹ ๋ขฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ GM์€ ๋ฏธ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์†Œ์žฌ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์…€ ์ „์šฉ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ”ผํฌ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋Š” ์ด ๋‚˜ํŠธ๋ฅจ ์ด์˜จ ์…€์„ ์ž์‚ฌ์˜ ๋…์ž์ ์ธ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ €์žฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์— ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ค.
2026๋…„ 6์›” 10์ผ 14:39
Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Production Surges in May: Tight Capacity, Cost Pressures, Q3 Expansion Ahead
2026๋…„ 6์›” 5์ผ 16:45
Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Production Surges in May: Tight Capacity, Cost Pressures, Q3 Expansion Ahead
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Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Production Surges in May: Tight Capacity, Cost Pressures, Q3 Expansion Ahead
Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Production Surges in May: Tight Capacity, Cost Pressures, Q3 Expansion Ahead
In May, key materials for sodium-ion batteries sustained their strong momentum, with both cathode and hard carbon anode recording sharp YoY and MoM growth. Top-tier playersโ€™ order books were full and capacity utilization rates approached their limits. On the supply side, the pattern of rising volumes and stable prices was pronounced, yet pressure to pass on rising raw material costs was also building.
2026๋…„ 6์›” 5์ผ 16:45
[CATL's Wu Kai: Sodium-ion mass production this year, lithium-air next]
2026๋…„ 5์›” 31์ผ 12:50
[CATL's Wu Kai: Sodium-ion mass production this year, lithium-air next]
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[CATL's Wu Kai: Sodium-ion mass production this year, lithium-air next]
[CATL's Wu Kai: Sodium-ion mass production this year, lithium-air next]
Wu Kai, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief scientist of CATL, said at the 2026 Equipment Power Forum that the company will achieve mass production of a series of sodium-ion battery products this year. Compared with lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries have abundant raw material resources and lower costs. Looking ahead, lithium-air batteries will be CATL's future direction. Wu Kai explained that lithium-air batteries use lithium as the negative electrode and oxygen from the air as the positive electrode reactant, offering ultra-high theoretical energy density and representing the next global battleground for next-generation batteries.
2026๋…„ 5์›” 31์ผ 12:50
After both sodium-ion battery cathodes and hard carbon anodes recorded - Shanghai Metals Market (SMM)