When CEO Robert Bagheri founded battery manufacturing company Sakuu 10 years ago, he recognized something critical about the industry: it just isn’t agile. In an interview with Chief Executive, Bagheri explains how the company’s 3D manufacturing processes are making battery production more sustainable and cost-effective, and what’s next for the company on their journey to create the new gold-standard for battery production. I believe that electrification is the key to addressing our environmental challenges, and that therefore the battery manufacturing industry is crucial to maintaining America’s prosperity and national security. Our Kavian Manufacturing Platform is a groundbreaking dry-process electrode manufacturing platform engineered to transform the production of battery and supercapacitor electrodes. This isn’t a new type of architecture, but the standard wet process used in battery manufacturing doesn’t support its mass-production.