Throughput Without Tradeoffs: Scaling Advanced Powder Processing for Energy Materials

In this episode, CPS President Gregg Shemanski breaks down one of the most persistent challenges in advanced powder processing: how do you push throughput on high-performance materials — battery-grade powders, functional additives, and precision particulates — without letting your specs slip? With 44 years of processing expertise, Gregg walks through the science and systems behind scaling production while maintaining tight particle size distributions, density, shape, and surface area. He covers where drift really happens (hint: it's usually the raw material), why batch optimization is a whole-ecosystem problem — not a single-variable fix — and how CPS's installed capacity, engineering depth, and process knowledge help energy materials customers go from R&D to repeatable commercial production faster than going it alone. Gregg and host Jen Lepore also explore: -Why energy storage materials demand such unforgiving specs, and what variables matter most -The most common self-optimization mistakes process engineers make -How CPS uses real-time data collection (up to 3x per second) to catch drift before it becomes a failure -The benchtop-to-pilot-to-production pathway that de-risks scale-up -What a tolling partner brings to battery materials customers that in-house manufacturing typically can't Custom Processing Services partners with manufacturers to deliver high-quality toll processing solutions that exceed industry standards. Connect with us: https://www.customprocessingservices.... Follow us on LinkedIn:   / custom-processing-services-inc-   Like us on Facebook:   / customprocessingservicesinc