The newly established large scale SOFC manufacturing line is comprised of facilities to produce slurries for tape casting and screen print pastes. The continuous tape caster processes the slurry into SOFC support tapes (like electrolytes) having a maximum length of 200 meters. The tapes are then cut automatically into the required dimensions and fired in a high-temperature batch furnace with a capacity of > 2,000 substrates per run. The SOFC electrode pastes are applied to the support substrates (electrolytes) on a fully automated screen print line. Firing the electrodes at temperatures < 1350°C is the final SOFC manufacturing step.

The manufacturing equipment has been installed in different production rooms with a total area of 430m². Except the furnace area, all rooms are humidity- and temperature-controlled and have a clean room atmosphere. Significant investment was spent to set up the production line.

The annual capacity of production line will be 300,000 cell components, which is sufficient to build 50,000 SOFC 1kW stacks. A significant number of cells will be produced for Staxera, the joint venture between Webasto and H.C. Starck that is developing SOFC fuel cell modules (stacks).