// COMPANY DOSSIER
NOVONIX Battery Technology Solutions Inc.
Nova Scotia battery-technology operation developing high-precision lithium-ion battery test systems and dry-process (pCAM-free) cathode materials at a pilot facility in Dartmouth, NS. The work continues today through Halifax-area companies Dryve Battery Materials Inc. (cathode materials) and Avrion Battery Labs Inc. (battery testing and R&D).
📍 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada (110 Simmonds Drive, Burnside Industrial Park)Est. 2013✓ 100% first-party verified
// LESSONS FROM NOVONIX Battery Technology Solutions Inc.
Transferable skills from other industries (advertising, agency work) are a genuine competitive advantage when entering construction — people skills and business-development instincts fill gaps that technical credentials cannot.
Job ads no longer work post-COVID for skilled trades and site supervisors — GCs must build culture and values deliberately to attract and develop talent, treating hiring as a long-cycle investment.
Site supervisors are the hard rate-limiter on GC growth; no amount of pipeline or sales effort compensates for lacking enough qualified supers to resource jobs.
Saying no to work that exceeds your resourcing capacity protects brand and margin; the entrepreneurial impulse to take everything is what gets construction companies into trouble.
A coaching-first talent development model — hiring for values alignment first, then developing technical skills — produces more durable outcomes than competency-first hiring under labour-market pressure.
PM-led estimating (where the project manager who priced the job also delivers it) creates accountability and eliminates blame-shifting when costs overrun.
// SELECTED PROJECTS
Simmonds Drive pilot cathode production facility (Dartmouth/Burnside)
In progressOwner/operator (now operated by spun-out Dryve Battery Materials Inc.)
Launched Nov 8 2022: a 35,000 sq ft facility using an all-dry Dry Particle Microgranulation (DPMG) process. As of 2026 the facility is operational and validated to up to 100 tonnes per annum of dry pCAM-free cathode material.
Government of Canada / ACOA + NGen support for the Dartmouth pilot facility
CompletedRecipient · C$1,000,000 (ACOA) + C$1,675,000 (Next Generation Manufacturing Canada)
Development of the Simmonds Drive facility was supported by C$1M from the Government of Canada via the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) and C$1.675M from Next Generation Manufacturing Canada. The Government of Canada / ACOA also publicly announced support for the facility (canada.ca, 2022) and for NOVONIX cathode + data-product R&D, but those gov pages returned HTTP 403 to the fetcher and could not be HTTP-validated, so the funding figures are cited to the HTTP-200 NOVONIX primary-press release that states them.
// KEY PEOPLE
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Dr. Chris Burns
Co-founder; former CEO of NOVONIX Battery Technology Solutions; now Founder & CEO of Dryve Battery Materials Inc. (acquired the Canadian business in April 2026)
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Lori McLeod
President of NOVONIX Battery Technology Solutions for ~3 years; now leads the spun-out Avrion Battery Labs Inc.
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Michael O'Kronley
CEO & Managing Director of parent NOVONIX Limited (the corporate group that divested the Canadian BTS business)
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NOVONIX traces to Halifax/Nova Scotia, co-founded in 2013 out of Dr. Chris Burns's PhD research at Dalhousie University (Dr. Jeff Dahn's group); the company first commercialized high-precision battery-testing technology before expanding into cathode materials.
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