Advanced Battery Technologies recovers, grades and reworks cylindrical lithium-ion cells in Somerset West, and builds them into finished battery packs for security, off-grid lighting, e-mobility and manufacturing customers.
Businesses in security, off-grid lighting and micromobility mostly buy their battery packs from overseas, with long lead times, container-sized minimums and nobody local who can open a pack up, diagnose it or stand behind it.
At the same time, perfectly usable lithium cells are shredded or sent to landfill: new cells used only in manufacturers’ weld-validation testing, surplus stock, and cells inside packs that were thrown away whole because a few cells failed.
That’s the gap ABT exists to close: recover the cells, grade them properly, and build the packs here.
To supply reliable lithium power from cells that would otherwise be wasted, built locally and supported locally.
Nothing goes into a pack, or out to a customer, until it has been tested and sorted on our automated line.
Battery management on every pack, conservative design margins, and capacity, balance and thermal checks before anything leaves.
A pack with a few tired cells isn’t waste. We repair and rebuild packs for a second life, keeping them out of landfill.
Businesses trust us with prototype and production pack designs. Their intellectual property stays theirs, start to finish.
Our line has far more capacity than today’s orders use, which means short lead times for you and room for contract work.
Automated resistance spot welding for consistent, repeatable pack builds.
Grades cells at around 4,000 an hour, so every batch is matched before it’s built.
A bespoke machine that returns both 18650 and 21700 cells to specification.
25 years in business development, innovation and technology management, with an engineering background spanning manufacturing, energy and telecommunications. Etienne leads ABT’s technical development strategy at board level.
Holds investments across energy storage, monitoring & analytics and power-solutions businesses. For the last decade he has worked alongside engineering teams developing strategies for optimising hybrid power systems and storage assets.
MSc Electronic Engineer with experience across firmware, test engineering and full-stack development, including automated validation of lithium battery products. Ronald designs ABT’s products and the tests that prove them, and is an IPC J-STD-001 certified specialist.
The people who grade the cells, run the welding line, test the packs and rebuild tired ones. Visit us at Olive Grove Estate.
