Orbite Technologies Inc. announced that the National Research Council of Canada will evaluate Orbite's High Purity Alumina (HPA) for use in lithium-ion battery separators. Orbite's Technology Development Center (TDC) will work with National Research Council experts to develop composite separator formulations containing Orbite's HPA. These substrates will then be applied to commercially available ceramic separators.

NRC scientists will use their expertise and cutting-edge facilities to characterize various separator formulations, and benchmark the efficiency of batteries with separators containing Orbite's HPA against those with commercially available separators, containing no or competitors' alumina.