In Harbin in September, autumn is beginning to appear, but the popularity of the new energy industry continues to heat up.

From September 20 to 22, 2026, the "2026 China Manganese-based Materials and Battery Industry Technology Innovation and Development Summit Forum" jointly sponsored by the School of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of Harbin Institute of Technology, the National Key Laboratory of Space Power, and Mariana was held grandly at the Harbin Institute of Technology Activity Center.

This forum, with the theme of "Ice City Huizhi·Manganese Opens a New Chapter", brings together experts from universities and colleges, and senior executives of upstream and downstream enterprises in the manganese-based materials and battery industry chain to discuss the new future of the industry of manganese-based materials from basic research, process iteration to large-scale mass production, focusing on lithium-rich manganese base, lithium manganate, spinel lithium nickel manganate, and lithium iron manganese phosphate.

As a special sponsor of this conference, Guangdong Yifu Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. was invited to participate in the conference and presented manganese-based material sanding technology and innovative solutions to Ice City. It had in-depth exchanges with industry experts and customer partners, and once again demonstrated Yifu's core strength in the field of new energy material grinding and dispersion equipment.

A forum to see the "next decade" of the manganese-based industry

Manganese is once again becoming a key variable in battery material systems.

From lithium-rich manganese-based, lithium manganate, spinel lithium nickel-manganese oxide, to lithium iron manganese phosphate (LMFP), which continues to gain popularity in the current industry, the manganese-based route has become a common technical direction for power batteries, small power, and energy storage systems due to its advantages of high safety, low cost, independent resource control, and adaptability to diversified application scenarios.

At this forum, 30+ industry experts focused on -

• Structural stability and voltage attenuation of manganese-based cathode materials;

• Lithium-rich manganese-based order-disorder control and lattice oxygen stabilization;

• Matching of high-voltage electrolyte and manganese-based system;

• LMFP material modification, mass production process and industrial chain coordination;

• A high-density academic and industrial dialogue was launched on topics such as manganese-based sodium electricity and solid/semi-solid frontier directions

. More than 30 experts from university scientific research institutions such as Peking University, Fudan, Xiamen University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Ningbo Institute of Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as industry representatives such as Phylion, Keneng, Ruipu Lanjun, Zhongke Zhiliang, and Sodium Innovation Energy took the stage to share, truly realizing the "industry-university-research-application" dialogue on the same stage.

Grand event appearance: Yifu booth is very popular

Lithium iron manganese phosphate takes into account safety, cost and energy density. The lithium-rich manganese base points to a higher energy density ceiling. Lithium manganate and lithium nickel manganate accelerate the volume in small power and high-pressure scenarios. All these routes are inseparable from high consistency, narrow particle size distribution, low pollution, and continuous ultra-fine grinding and dispersion equipment.

During this forum, the Yifu Intelligent Fine Decoration Booth always had a constant flow of people:

• Material companies are concerned about the control of grinding particle size of precursors and cathode materials;

• Battery cell companies are concerned about the continuity, yield and energy consumption of production lines;

• Scientific research institutes focus on equipment adaptation from small laboratory tests to pilot scale-up;

• New and old customers conduct in-depth communication around "single machine - section - entire line - intelligent production line".

Yifu technical engineers answered questions on-site with the marketing team, and conducted multiple rounds of exchanges with material companies, battery factories, and scientific research institutes around topics such as "particle size control, dispersion uniformity, equipment wear resistance and pollution control during the mass production of manganese-based materials." They talked about material characteristics, media selection, grinding chamber structure, production line rhythm, temperature control, and digital operation and maintenance, turning "equipment vendors" into "process partners." Many customers expressed production line verification and cooperation intentions at the booth.

On-site communication: In the manganese-based era, equipment is the "invisible base" of industrialization

For equipment companies, a signal from this event is very clear:

For manganese-based materials to be implemented on a large scale, the front-end crushing, dispersing and grinding links are no longer "supporting types of work", but the core process nodes that determine particle size distribution, specific surface area, consistency and manufacturing cost. Different from ordinary exhibitions, Yifu's exchanges at this manganese-based forum were very "down-to-earth":

• A lithium-rich manganese-based team came to ask: How can high specific energy materials avoid structural damage during the grinding process?

• An LMFP company came to ask: How to adjust the sanding process when the viscosity changes after coating modification?

• A lithium manganese oxide customer asked: How to reduce equipment depreciation and energy consumption in the basic small power supply?

• A scientific research institute came to ask: How to translate the parameters when the 1L equipment in the laboratory is enlarged to 400L or 1000L?

The Yifu team provides ideas, cases, and benchmarking production line data on-site, and always adheres to the following principles:

• Don’t chase concepts, chase the implementation of production lines;

• Don’t just look at fineness, but batch consistency;

• Don’t just make equipment, but make material manufacturing systems;

• Not only accompany the laboratory, but also accompany customers to complete the 10,000-ton run.

Turn the seemingly traditional thing of "grinding and dispersing" into the core capability of the industrialization of new energy materials. What many customers said to Yifu when they left the booth was: "You don't just understand machines, you also understand material production lines."

Bingcheng ends, and the journey begins again

In the three days of Bingcheng, we saw not only the evolution of manganese-based technology, but this forum is also an important stop in Yifu's new energy materials and equipment map in 2026. Manganese-based materials are at the forefront of the industry. What Yifu has to do is to make "good materials" first "good grinding".

In the future, Yifu Intelligent will continue to increase investment in research and development of new energy materials and equipment, and continue to iterate around large-scale, intelligent, energy-saving, ceramic, and systematization to provide faster, more stable, and more economical equipment and production line solutions for customers on lithium-rich manganese-based, LMFP, lithium manganate, lithium nickel manganate and other routes. Although the forum has come to an end, the new cycle of manganese-based products has just begun.