New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- Bengaluru: About three years ago, on a regular sunny August day in Hyderabad, Altmin, the battery materials company, set out to make cathodes, a critical component in lithium-ion batteries, in India for the very first time.

The pilot plant, established within the white walls of the Indian government's International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) in 2023, has scaled up to produce 250kg a day of the critical mineral that constitutes a significant percentage of a battery cell's chemistry today. The scientists at the research centre are Altmin's technology partners, working towards achieving the ambitious goal of localizing the geopolitically critical battery supply chain from ri...