Ceramic Fuel Cells wanted to move from hand-built products to a semi-automated manufacturing process, requiring a plant with a design capacity of 10,000 fuel cell stacks per year in order to support their global expansion plans. WSP CEL responsibilities
Project management Process ‘upsizing’ Detailed design and equipment specification Procurement Construction management
Key features
Future-proofing of facility to expand capacity up to 160,000 fuel cell stacks per year within the same building
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Since 2005 they have been http://www.cfcl.com.au/Assets/Files/2005-06_CFCL_Annual_Report_1.pdf "The Company is building a plant in the United Kingdom to scale up this new process. The key strategic reason for the Company producing its own powder is to mitigate the supply chain risk for a very specific and critical material requirement. Secondary benefits are that we believe it allows the Company to produce fuel cells at a lower cost and potentially generate additional revenue."
"Fuel Cell Manufacturing Plant The Company’s small-scale manufacturing plant in Melbourne already has the capacity to manufacture fuel cells in a batch processing mode and to assemble fuel cell stacks. The Company is increasing production capacity from this plant to supply early stage demand from appliance manufacturers for prototype fuel cells and systems."
They have been producing stacks for years even at 312 a year they have enough in stock to supply orders!
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