Mr. Paul Guedes reports

NANO ONE SUCCESSFULLY COMMISSIONS PROPRIETARY AGITATOR EQUIPMENT BOOSTING THROUGHPUT CAPACITY AT CANDIAC FIVE NEW PATENTS ADDED TO GLOBAL IP PORTFOLIO

Nano One Materials Corp. has successfully installed and commissioned a custom-designed and proprietary agitator in its commercial-sized 20,000 litre One-Pot reactor at its production facility in Candiac, Que. -- further improving its cost performance, in addition to supporting production scale-up and continued product commercialization, as well as optimizing plant design for the company's future licensing business.

Highlights

• The full-scale One-Pot reactor at the Candiac operations has been upgraded with new proprietary agitator equipment;
• This new equipment installation will increase throughput capacity by approximately 50 per cent;
• The increased capacity will result in reduced cost of production going forward;
• Nano One continues to enhance technological edge with continued development work;
• Five new patents for LFP, NMC and LNMO cathodes added to the company's IP portfolio.

Image One-Pot reactor with proprietary agitator

The newly installed, high-efficiency agitator has been engineered to enhance mixing dynamics, thermal transfer and reaction time, and is estimated to increase the throughput capacity of the reactor by approximately 50 per cent. It will also improve the consistency and quality of CAM output, while yielding reduced operating expenses (opex). The upgrade followed extensive piloting, data collection and modelling conducted on smaller 2,000-litre One-Pot pilot reactors, which were commissioned in October, 2023.

"The successful commissioning of the new equipment marks an important milestone in the further optimization of the Candiac operations, which has been established as a One-Pot LFP demonstration production plant," said Denis Geoffroy, chief commercialization officer of Nano One. "The upgrade was achieved through the combined efforts of our engineering and production teams. With their decades of commercial experience, the teams have continued to focus on continuous improvement and cost competitiveness of the technology. This achievement underscores the scalability of the One-Pot process."

The upgraded agitator and reactor design is full scale and representative of the systems planned for future One-Pot enabled commercial-scale plants. This upgrade will support continuing product validation and business development initiatives with key customers and commercial partners, while reinforcing the value proposition of Nano One's One-Pot technology to prospective licensees. Many of these engagements have focused on a subset of customers across battery energy storage systems (BESS), which in the past 18 months have seen robust global demand increases driven by accelerated growth in the AI data centre, military and grid optimization market segments.

The new equipment was sourced from a leading German manufacturer specializing in mixing technologies. Nano One continues to establish a robust equipment supply chain, which can be shielded from potential disruption and geopolitical risk -- especially following China's July, 2025, announcement imposing export restrictions on key equipment and technologies related to LFP cathode manufacturing.

This project is supported by funding and expense reimbursements from NRC IRAP clean technology program (formerly SDTC), Investissement Quebec, Technoclimat and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

Nano One adds five new patents to its IP (intellectual property) portfolio

Nano One is pleased to announce the allowance and/or issuance of five new patents in North America and Asia to its portfolio of IP, bringing its total now to 52 granted, one allowed and 54 pending in jurisdictions around the world. These patents strengthen Nano One's independence from foreign controlled IP and enhance the company's technological edge in a continually evolving market.

Recently issued and/or allowed patents

• LFP: United States patent US 12,319,590 B2 issued on June 3, 2025: describes an improved, scalable synthesis method for olivine-structured lithium metal phosphate cathode active materials;
• LFP: Canadian patent CA 3,068,797 allowed on April 3, 2025: describes a synthesis of olivine-structured lithium metal phosphate cathode active materials;
• LFP: Taiwan patent TW I887600 issued on June 21, 2025: describes a method of preparing lithium metal phosphate (LMP) cathode active materials using metal feedstocks;
• Original M2CAM NMC: Korean patent KR 10-2791544 issued on April 1, 2025: describes the M2CAM technology using the One-Pot sulphate-free process for making lithium battery cathode materials;
• LNMO: United States patent US 12,355,063 issued on July 8, 2025: describes a novel battery assembled with high voltage spinel LNMO cathode material made using the One-Pot process and paired with an electrolyte for high durability.

About Nano One Materials Corp.

Nano One Materials is a technology company changing how the world makes cathode active materials for lithium-ion batteries. Applications include stationary energy storage systems (ESS), portable electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). The company's patented One-Pot process reduces costs, is easier to permit, lowers energy intensity, environmental footprint and reliance on problematic supply chains. The company is supporting the drive toward energy security, supply chain resilience, industrial competitiveness and increased performance through process innovation. Production is being piloted and demonstrated in Candiac, Que., drawing on existing plant and decades of commercial lithium-iron phosphate (LFP) manufacturing experience. Strategic collaborations and partnerships with international companies like Sumitomo Metal Mining, Rio Tinto and Worley are supporting a design-one-build-many licensing growth strategy -- delivering cost-competitive, easier-to-permit and faster-to-market battery materials production solutions worldwide. Nano One has received funding from the government of Canada, the government of the United States, the government of Quebec and the government of British Columbia.

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