lián · Co-innovate
We define problems and move validation forward together with research institutes, international material partners and industrial customers.
About CASU
An advanced-materials company that starts at the interface.
Company profile
Founded in Shanghai in 2017 by DBC Group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CASU is an advanced-materials innovation company. It works across four areas: high-end chemicals, specialty adhesives, battery materials and high-performance bio-based materials, with a main focus on waterborne binder systems for the cathodes and anodes of power and energy-storage batteries. Its projects start from material interfaces and formulation design and extend through process fit and application evaluation, helping China's innovation in new-energy and new materials develop more sustainably.
Mission
Helping China’s innovation in new-energy and new materials develop more sustainably.
Co-innovate. Engineer material potential into value.
Our name is our method.
huà · Chemistry and transformation
Starting from chemistry, we turn material potential into value that can be manufactured and evaluated. That is the meaning behind our motto.
Four working principles.
- 01
Start at the interface
Adhesion, dispersion and even coating are all decided at interfaces. We first understand how materials meet and bond.
- 02
Prove it in the process
A formulation only counts when it stays controllable under real mixing, coating, drying and calendering conditions.
- 03
Let data decide
Every conclusion is tied to references, methods and conditions — so it can be checked and scaled.
- 04
Create with partners
We bring international material systems, research expertise and the factory floor to the same problem.
Key facts
- Company
- 中科联化有限公司 (CASU)
- Founded
- 2017, Shanghai
- Founded by
- DBC Group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Business areas
- High-end chemicals, specialty adhesives, battery materials, high-performance bio-based materials
- Focus
- Water-based cathode and anode binder systems for power and energy-storage batteries
- 中科联化研究院
Co-innovation and the DBC Group
CASU has worked with BASF on water-based anode binders for more than five years, connecting international material systems with the needs of battery manufacturing in China.
CASU is an advanced-materials company within the DBC Group ecosystem. Its sister brand BIOTEN focuses on PHA-based paper packaging, while CASU’s bio-based work centers on battery and industrial applications.
Milestones
- 2017
CASU founded in Shanghai.
- 2017.08
Sponge-city material applications with DBC.
People’s Daily Online - 2022.07
President Lin Fanqiu on localising power-battery binders.
China Industry News - 2026.06
Meeting with BASF on water-based battery binders.
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