Cylindrical & consumer branch / Equipment, named — not specified
Nine Machines On This Branch. And Not One Published Figure Behind Them.
Everywhere else on this site we print numbers — takt, accuracy, travel, yield. On this branch we have equipment and renderings and no published figures, so this page prints the equipment and explains the blank.
⚠️ The second figure in the band below is not a typo and it is not modesty. It is the accurate count, and section 02 is what it is made of.
Three of the nine, named and nothing more
- 9Machines on this branch
- 0Published figures
- 2Branch lines named
- 1Question we ask first
A published figure is a promise tied to three things
This is normally the last paragraph on a page like this, in small type. It is second here, because it is the most useful thing we can tell you.
01 — A defined part
02 — A set of tooling
03 — An acceptance criterion
On the prismatic branch all three exist, which is why those pages carry dozens of figures and this one carries none. Printing a figure here would mean inventing one of the three — most likely the part, because it is the easiest to invent and the hardest for you to check. We would rather publish a zero and explain it.
The nine, by name, and nothing else claimed
Read the line under each name as what the name says, not as a capability statement. Every card carries the same badge for the same reason, and that badge is the honest state of this branch today.
Fully automatic 18650 sorting machine
Cell back tape applicator
Taping machine
Plastic sleeving machine
Sealing machine
Dispensing machine
Nickel strip welding and bending machine
Cylindrical battery pack line
Consumer lithium pack line
⚠️ Nine names and nine identical badges is the whole section, on purpose. Giving each machine a sentence of praise would double the length and add nothing you could check — and our own build rules call that what it is: a list pretending to be an argument.
Zero figures is not the same as zero substance
It would be easy to read the last two sections as "they do not really do this". Here is what actually exists on this branch, stated as plainly as the blank was.
- ✅ The machines exist — they are in our equipment set, not a catalogue we resell
- ✅ Renderings exist — every machine on this page has one; that is what you are looking at
- Published figures do not — for the three reasons in section 02
- A blueprint part does not — and that is the one that unlocks the rest
The distinction matters because the two failure modes point in opposite directions. A supplier with no equipment and confident numbers is the dangerous one. A supplier with equipment and no numbers is merely early — and being early is a state you can fix in one exchange of drawings. Which one you are dealing with is worth establishing before anything else, and it is establishable in a single question.
Take this to any supplier
"Show me a rendering of the machine, and tell me which part your figures were measured on."
Every other page on this site is trying to give you a number. This one is telling you what a number would have to be made of.
On the prismatic branch
On this branch
What we would have had to invent to fill this page in
This section is uncomfortable to write and it is the reason the page is worth reading. Each of the three inventions below is one a buyer cannot detect from the outside.
Invent the part
Invent the tooling
Invent the criterion
The same principle governs a page you can check us against: the off-line gantry welder publishes fifteen machine figures and no weld strength figure at all, for exactly this reason — that machine welds whatever you clamp to it, so a strength criterion without your joint would be invented. Different branch, different machine, same rule applied twice.
Two lines are named on this branch, and only named
The last two entries in section 03 are lines rather than machines. What that word means here is narrower than it usually is, and the difference is worth a section.
Cylindrical battery pack line
Consumer lithium pack line
⚠️ "Line" on this page means an arrangement of the machines above. On the prismatic pack line page the same word arrives with a station count, a takt band and a headcount — the word is the same and the evidence behind it is not, which is exactly the confusion this page exists to prevent.
If you need published figures today, they are one click away
This is the most useful thing this page can do for a buyer who arrived expecting specifications: point at the branch where we have them, and be specific about it.
- 8 to 15 PPM — the prismatic module and pack takt band → tier selection
- 17 and 15 stations — the module and pack segments, station by station → the line pages
- ≥99% — line acceptance yield, equipment-caused defects only → acceptance
Each of those is quoted here as a signpost and expanded on the page that owns it — nothing about them is restated here. The point of listing them is the contrast: that is what a branch looks like when the part, the tooling and the criteria all exist, and it is what this branch will look like once we have seen your part.
Cylindrical, consumer, prismatic — three answers, three pages
Buyers rarely arrive knowing which of our branches they need, and the fastest way through this site is to establish it in one paragraph.
- Prismatic energy-storage or EV packs — the main branch, where the figures are
- Cylindrical cells, industrial or storage format — this branch, and this blank
- Consumer-electronics packs — this branch too, same position
There is a fourth answer worth stating: if what you need is cell manufacturing — mixing, coating, calendering, winding, electrode stacking, electrolyte filling, formation — that is a different plant and a different supplier, on every branch we have. Saying so costs us nothing and saves you weeks, and it is the same answer we give on every other page of this site.
How the blank on this page becomes a number for you
This is a sequence rather than an invitation to enquire. Each step produces something you can hold, and the last one is the only place a figure appears.
01 — You send the part
02 — We come back with an arrangement
03 — Tooling is designed against your part
04 — Then the figures exist
Four steps, and only the fourth one contains a number. Any supplier can be asked to name which of their steps produces the figure they already quoted you.
Four questions this page reliably produces, answered plainly
All four have been asked of us in almost these words, and all four have short answers.
Does this mean you have never built one?
Can you just give me a ballpark?
Why publish the page at all, then?
Is the prismatic branch the same situation?
⚠️ None of these four answers is softened anywhere else on the site. If you find a page of ours that contradicts one of them, that is a defect and we would like to know.
Ask five suppliers about cylindrical, and you get three answers
Not good, better and best. Three genuinely different things a supplier can mean, and only one of them tells you where you stand.
"Yes, we do cylindrical" — with a spec sheet
"Yes" — and nothing else
The equipment, the blank, and the path
"The only one of the three you can verify from the outside is the one that tells you what it does not know."
Two situations end here, and two should go elsewhere
The fastest thing this page can do is tell you when to stop reading it, and it is worth doing that before the enquiry section rather than after.
✅ You have a part and want it costed
✅ You are early and want to know what is possible
You need published specifications today
You are sourcing cell manufacturing
Send the cell and the pack, and the blank closes
Cell format, a drawing or photograph of the pack you are building, and roughly how many a month. Three inputs — and what comes back is an arrangement, not a brochure.