Aspen Aerogels opens Marlborough research facility
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Aspen Aerogels plans to open a 59,000-square-foot research facility in Marlborough to enhance its electric vehicle technology.
Aspen Aerogels has completed construction on its 59,000-square-foot engineering and rapid prototyping facility in Marlborough. The company held a ribbon cutting ceremony at the site on Wednesday.
The Advanced Thermal Barrier Center will be the company’s engineering hub of PyroThin cell-to-cell barriers, which provide insulation and fire resistance for lithium-ion battery packs, often used in electric vehicles.
"The ATBC is designed to be the center of our customer-facing work as we continue to establish ourselves as an important industry resource and play an essential role in battery safety and performance,” President and CEO Donald Young said in a Wednesday press release.
Aspen Aerogels announced in September it would open the facility in a former retail space on Donald Lynch Boulebard in Marlborough.
Northborough-based Aspen has manufacturing facilities in East Providence, Rhode Island. In November, the company announced that it had raised $340 million to build a Georgia manufacturing facility, Phase I of the Georgia facility was originally expected to be commissioned in the fourth quarter of this year, but that may be subject to timing the completion to better align with the expected increase in the number of EV customers, according to a May 3 press release from the company.
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