Unipart takes full ownership of UK battery system manufacturer Hyperbat
Logistics service provider Unipart announced on January 21, 2026 that it has taken full ownership of Hyperbat, a UK manufacturer of electric battery systems, after acquiring the remaining 50% shareholding in the company from its joint venture partner.
Hyperbat was established in 2018 as a specialist, high-tech facility for low-to-mid volume, high-performance battery manufacturing based at Unipart’s manufacturing site in Coventry.
Unipart has said that this acquisition “a significant milestone in Unipart’s long-term commitment to electrification, advanced manufacturing and the industrialisation of low-carbon technologies.”
It added that bringing Hyperbat into fill Unipart ownership “strengthens a scalable UK platform delivering battery systems, power electronics, power modules and electrical integration, supported by full lifecycle services including manufacture, remanufacture and reuse”.
“We are incredibly proud of the growth journey Hyperbat has taken,” Carol Rose Burke, managing director of manufacturing and engineering at Unipart, said. “Hyperbat originated from an early research and development programme, delivered through a consortium of partners at our Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering, where we identified the long-term potential of electrification as a core part of Unipart’s manufacturing future.”
“Since then, we have deliberately invested in people and capability, building a highly-skilled team and world-class manufacturing expertise, including advanced welding and joining, now applied across multiple sectors,” she explained.
Burke continued: “Bringing Hyperbat into full Unipart ownership allows us to build on a strong foundation, scale proven capability and continue supporting customers as they industrialise electrification and low-carbon technologies with confidence.”
“As a supply chain performance improvement partner, our focus is on building capability and solutions that support our customers to perform better in an increasingly complex and fragile supply chain environment,” added Darren Leigh, Unipart’s CEO. “Electrification and low-carbon technologies are part of that challenge, but so too are resilience, sourcing pressure and the need to industrialise innovation at pace.”
Automotive Logistics has reached out to Unipart for further comment.
