Co-operation Profile

The company is specialized in flat gaskets’ manufacturing mainly for the automotive-engine sector, since 1926. Over the last year, we’ve been working on fitting our gaskets machining technology to the production of metallic bipolar plates for fuel cells, in order to reach the US DOE goals of cost (< 5 $/kW) and weight (< 0.4 kg/kW), as they represent approximately 60% of the overall fuel cell production cost. We base our production on the stamping technique, in which we have a decadal experience, thus being able to manage several kind of different materials (supported by our famous metals suppliers), as well as different flow field designs (based on an accurate fluidodynamic study of the cell environment). There are several advantages of our technology over the conventional graphite plates making technique: it is definitely faster (as it enable us to get a sample in few seconds) and cheaper, allowing us to set up an efficient mass production, whenever a satisfactory development of the bipolar plate will be obtained.

We are currently looking at the market, in order to find any chance of cooperation in developing these metallic bipolar plates. It could be either a technology (e.g. a), or a partner. Talking about technologies, we are looking for partners able to provide us particular surface treatments that would be able to guarantee a high-corrosion resistance of the metal in contact with hydrogen, as well as a low contact resistance and high electrical conductivity. On the other hand, we would be glad to set any kind of cooperation with any partner that would be able to help us both in meeting the goals required (researching field) and/or in distributing our future products all over the world, to the main fuel cells manufacturing companies.