If you want to understand the global battery industry, you had to be in Seoul this week. Here is why:
🔋 Five halls packed with everything you need to make a battery—from raw materials to cutting-edge equipment, automation, quality control systems, and even recycling solutions. The entire battery value chain is here, under one roof.
🏭 Who’s here? Every major Korean battery player—cell manufacturers, electrode makers, material suppliers, and equipment producers. Who’s missing? Most European and US companies. A handful of Western firms made the trip, but if the West truly wants to build a competitive battery industry, it needs to be here in greater numbers.
📉 The reality is that Asia dominates battery manufacturing, and that’s not changing anytime soon. The most successful scale-ups in the battery space—whether in Israel, USA or Europe —are the ones actively partnering with Korean, Chinese and Japanese suppliers to accelerate their scale-up.
For those serious about batteries, InterBattery Korea is a must. Now, if you missed it this time, I’ll be happy to catch up in Munich in May, or Stuttgart in June. And of course, see you next year in Seoul! 🇰🇷🔋
