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There are days when everything stops. Falls silent. When the silence becomes so loud. Many of you may have never met Nemanja, but you know, just as those of us who knew and loved him, that we have lost a brilliant individual, a unique mind, and a leader who inspired us to always give our very best, because that is the only path to success. This is the hardest day for our company. That is why Nemanja will forever remain a part of it, and we will continue along the path he set for us. We already miss you beyond measure. RIP Nemanja Mikać CEO, ElevenEs Official Statement from ElevenEs and Al Pack Group: https://lnkd.in/dVGFBcdZ

🚨Job alert! You will probably fit well if you come from a manufacturing, industrial or similar environment where you had to connect accounting, controlling, ERP, inventory, costs and real operational processes. If you are looking for the next comfortable finance position, this is probably not it. If you want to build something demanding, concrete and important, this may be a very strong opportunity. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dgTxXip9

Recognition is meaningful. Responsibility is even more so. Our CEO, Nemanja Mikać, ranked #1 among LinkedIn creators in Environment & Energy in Serbia. But this isn't about social media. It's about proving that conversations around Europe's energy future, battery technology, industrial innovation, and sustainable manufacturing deserve a wider audience. ☝️ We believe sharing knowledge is part of building the industry. Every discussion that helps people better understand the energy transition moves us all one step forward. Thank you to everyone who reads, challenges, comments, and contributes to these conversations. This recognition belongs to the entire community. Take a drink, it's on Nemanja. 🥂

''The real work is the whole chain: refining the materials, engineering the cathode and hard-carbon anode, running the cell line at high yield, and closing the loop through recycling. You only learn that by building it.'' It can't be more to the point than this. Right? ☝️✅

⏰ 𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘: 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗗 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝟭𝟱% 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗟𝗬 𝟮𝟬! Too early to decide? You remain flexible! 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, Executive Tickets can be cancelled until 4 weeks before the event. 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗧 This is not just another industry event - it’s where the future of the battery economy is shaped: ⭐ Emma Nehrenheim, MD European Battery Alliance, InnoEnergy ⭐ 赵忠松 (Hank Zhao), CTO, ESS Europe, CATL ⭐ Nemanja Mikać, CEO, ElevenEs ⭐ Benoit Lemaignan, CEO and Co-Founder, Verkor ⭐ Henri-François Boedt, Senior Loan Officer - Cleantech, European Investment Bank (EIB) ⭐ Dr Alex O'Cinneide, CEO, Gore Street Capital ⭐ Robert Meyer, Cell Factory Lead, Tesla ⭐ Sebastian Wolf, Founder, Chairman & CEO, WLF Energy GmbH ⭐ Ilka von Dalwigk, Director General, RECHARGE – European Association of the Advanced Rechargeable & Lithium Batteries Value Chain ⭐ Nicolo` Campagnol, CPO, BASQUEVOLT ⭐ Donald Weir, CEO, Zenobē Don' think too long and register now before prices will rise on July 20: https://lnkd.in/d_JRiQZW #futurebattery26 #battery #networking #conference #exhibition #batterie

Europe's battery industry won't be built by ambition alone. It takes technology, manufacturing expertise, patient capital, and the courage to scale. ☝️ In this interview for SeeNews, our CEO, Nemanja Mikać, shares how ElevenEs is turning that vision into reality and why the second half of 2027 marks the next major milestone on our journey. Read the full conversation below. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dWhwXbz6

Every position exists for a reason. We hire people who want to solve problems, take ownership, and help build systems, not just follow them. 🤷♂️ This role is for people who thrive in a dynamic manufacturing environment where processes evolve, priorities shift, and continuous improvement is part of everyday work. It's probably not the right fit if you're looking for a desk-only procurement role, predictable routines, or a position with little accountability. ☝️ 👉If you're ready to help build Europe's battery industry from the inside, we'd like to hear from you. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/d-wMXwKk

Not every story is the same. Some are special and interesting, like ours. We began working on batteries in 2019 as a project within Al Pack Group, an aluminum packaging company in Subotica, Serbia. Founded in 1994, Al Pack Group makes aluminum packaging, including lids and pharmaceutical blister or AL/PE foils. Our parent company has experience in high-precision aluminum processing, including coating, die-cutting, and deep drawing. ✅ When our founder, Nemanja, studied battery production in 2019, he saw similarities with Al Pack’s aluminum-processing business. Conventional electrode manufacturing also relies on applying a controlled coating to a moving metal foil web. 💡 👉Al Pack’s foil-processing and coating experience made that a relevant starting point. A cell is built from electrodes. An electrode is a composite layer of active material, conductive additive, and binder, coated onto metal foil. In a typical lithium-ion cell, the cathode is coated on aluminum foil and the anode on copper. Coating weight, thickness, porosity, and uniformity affect a cell's energy, power, and life. So do chemistry, electrode balance, electrolyte, and formation. Electrode manufacturing is a defect-sensitive stage. In conventional wet-electrode manufacturing, the active material, conductive additive, and binder are mixed with a solvent to form a slurry. The slurry is coated onto foil, dried, and then calendered to a target thickness and density, thereby setting electrode porosity. Poor uniformity creates local differences within an electrode. Over the course of a production run, it can also weaken cell-to-cell consistency. That matters when many cells go into one pack. ☝️ High-precision foil coating gave us a useful starting point. Battery electrodes still meant learning about slurry formulation, drying, porosity control, and the electrochemical performance a cell must meet. We already operate an LFP battery pilot facility in Subotica. Our planned 1 GWh Megafactory is scheduled to start production in 2027, with first cell deliveries expected that year. And did you know? Since 1994, Al Pack Group has processed about 40.000 km worth of aluminium foil annually. That’s enough aluminum foil to make a path to the moon and back. 🌘

This is not just another job. This is a chance to build technology that matters. And if you wander what your outcome will be, here it is: 👉Build technology that powers the energy transition. 👉Work on one of Europe's most advanced LFP battery programs. 👉Grow alongside a team solving real manufacturing challenges. If that sounds like your next chapter - we're hiring. Find your next job here: https://lnkd.in/diM4jDiU

Grid storage has become a commodity business. I was at Intersolar last week with my colleagues, and the show left no doubt. The show was much bigger than the Battery Show in Stuttgart. The attendance was several times higher. There were 13 good halls, and it felt very Asian. Around 80% of the exhibitors and roughly half of the visitors were Asian, mostly Chinese. So, I came back with 5 observations: 1. Utility-scale BESS has become a commodity You could relabel any container, and nobody would notice you had changed the supplier. The Chinese suppliers are all moving to the 587/588Ah cell and the 6.25MWh container, and almost everything on show was a 2-hour system. Commercial and industrial (C&I) storage has settled around the 261kWh solution, and even home storage barely tries to stand out anymore. The market is now standardized and highly competitive, with material costs accounting for a large share of the final price. 2. Chargers are moving to higher power, and they now come with storage There is a clear move towards higher-power chargers, usually in the 250-400kW range, with some reaching 1MW. What interests me more is that chargers increasingly need storage beside them, ideally high-power storage that can discharge in 30 minutes or less. 3. AI data centers are becoming a real market For now, they are served with standard products, the same 2-hour containers used everywhere else. A 2-hour container is not a good fit for AI data center (AIDC) workloads, so these applications require a dedicated system. We have built exactly that, and the response has been strong. I expect more innovation in the field. 4. Europe is losing ground Some European companies are still trying to stand out, but my feeling is that many of them do it only for the sake of being different. I see no upside in that, only downside, and I expect most of those projects to either pivot or die. Many Europeans also still count on weak Chinese after-sales support, and that is no longer true. Europe is losing the argument in both utility-scale and C&I. 5. Sodium-ion was barely there, and NMC has left storage I saw a few traces of sodium-ion, mostly from CATL and Envision, but far less than at CIBF. NMC has disappeared from the storage market, apart from a few legacy home storage systems. In utility-scale and C&I, Chinese products are now standardized and cheap, and the after-sales service Europe counted on is no longer weak. Last thing, unrelated to the market. The air conditioning worked very poorly, so it was extremely hot, and people visited far less than they could have. A big miss by the organizer.