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SES AI certifies its Chungju quality system while scaling drone-cell production

SES AI announced that its Chungju, South Korea battery facility achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification as it scales pouch-cell production for drone and advanced-mobility applications. The company says it remains on track for roughly one million cells of annual production capacity.

Battery availability depends on manufacturing repeatability and quality systems as much as chemistry. A certified quality-management process is useful evidence of production discipline, though it does not certify a cell's flight performance.

Buyers should still qualify exact cell lots against energy density, internal resistance, cycle life, traceability and pack-level thermal behavior rather than treating ISO 9001 as a product-performance certificate.