In just a few days, the most important minds in the global battery industry will converge in Orlando, Florida, and Engineered Materials Solutions (EMS) will be right in the middle of it.
The 43rd International Battery Seminar & Exhibit runs March 23–26, 2026, at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, a new venue for this storied event. If you’re attending, you’ll find EMS at Booth #312 on the exhibit floor.
Whether you want to talk through a specific clad metal application, get a closer look at our proprietary SigmaClad® material solutions, or simply meet the team face-to-face, we’d love to see you there!
If you work anywhere in the battery supply chain and haven’t yet made it to the International Battery Seminar, it belongs on your calendar. Founded in 1983, the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit has established itself as the premier event showcasing worldwide developments in energy storage technology for consumer, automotive, military, grid, and industrial applications.
The 2026 event is a four-day gathering organized by Cambridge Enertech, expected to bring around 2,000 attendees and approximately 248 speakers representing OEMs, cell manufacturers, pack integrators, national labs, raw materials suppliers, and government agencies.
This year brings a notable change for longtime attendees. After years at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando, the International Battery Seminar is moving to a new home: the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit 2026 will be held at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida.
Located at 9939 Universal Boulevard, Rosen Shingle Creek is a larger, purpose-built convention resort, a fitting upgrade for a show that has grown substantially in scale and ambition.
The 2026 edition also carries a pointed theme. This year’s conference theme, “Battery Safety Standards & Testing,” addresses the need to enhance battery safety testing and regulatory frameworks in response to the rapid proliferation of high-energy-density batteries.
Regulatory pressure, thermal runaway incidents, and increasingly demanding performance specs across EV and grid applications have all pushed safety from a background concern to a central engineering challenge.
Expect sessions covering sodium-ion commercialization, solid-state battery progress, wireless battery management systems, cell-to-pack architecture advances, and end-of-life recycling strategies alongside the Seminar’s traditional focus on EV performance and materials innovation.
In addition to keynote presentations and technical sessions, the exhibit hall will showcase cutting-edge products, technologies, and solutions from leading companies, offering attendees hands-on insights to stay ahead in the rapidly evolving battery industry.
EMS has been part of the International Battery Seminar for years, and it isn’t just about floor traffic.
Established in 1916, Engineered Materials Solutions provides clad metals using PT Bonding, warm bonding, inlay cladding, and side-to-side cladding for thousands of applications.
Cladding, the process of metallurgically bonding dissimilar metals under heat and pressure, creates materials with properties no single metal can replicate.
If you’ve held a US quarter, you’ve handled clad metal.
Clad metals are found in just about everything, including heat exchangers, medical devices, button cell batteries, and the precision interconnects inside advanced lithium-ion battery packs.
EMS produces two products ideally suited to improve connections in advanced battery packs found in EVs.
Charged EV has a great write-up about our SigmaClad and DeltaClad product lines and how uniquely suited they are for Li-ion battery packs using cylindrical, prismatic, or pouch cells.
Read more about SigmaClad right here.
SigmaClad, a five-layer sandwich of copper, stainless steel, and nickel, was built to solve problems in battery packs that become more apparent as pack designs scale up.
The International Battery Seminar puts EMS in the same room as the engineers, program managers, and materials scientists, asking exactly the questions our products are built to answer. That’s why we keep coming back.
The exhibit hall at IBS 2026 will bring together more than 150 sponsors and exhibitors, including raw materials suppliers, cell chemistry developers, test and diagnostic equipment companies, battery management systems providers, and manufacturing technology innovators, all under one roof.
For attendees moving between technical sessions and the floor, it’s a rare chance to connect specific research insights directly with the suppliers building the materials and components being discussed on stage. The show has a well-earned reputation for generating substantive conversations, not just badge scans.
If clad metal for battery applications is anywhere on your roadmap, EV pack design, cell manufacturing, grid storage, or something more specialized, come find us at Booth #312. Our team will have materials on hand and time to get into the specifics of your application.
Eager to chat with an EMS Expert about your next project? Email us and we’ll be in touch! customerwebinquiry@emsclad.com
