BASF Toda Battery Materials (BTBM), a Japan-based maker of cathode materials established by Germany-based BASF and Japan-based Toda Kogyo on a joint-venture basis, will expand production capacity for cathode active materials (CAM) used in lithium batteries, with the expansion to begin in fourth-quarter 2022 and the additional production capacity to come into operation in second-half 2024, according to Toda.