A once-quiet 40,500-square-foot warehouse in Sacramento’s Power Inn industrial district is about to get a serious upgrade, as LiCAP Technologies moves to turn the building into a factory for manufacturing battery electrodes with its solvent-free Activated Dry Electrode® process. The deal shifts the Sacramento-based startup out of pilot-line territory and into a full industrial footprint, marking a new chapter for local clean-energy manufacturing under the direction of CEO Linda Zhong as the company pushes toward commercial-scale production.
As reported by the Sacramento Business Journal, LiCAP has acquired the roughly 40,500-square-foot building with plans to dedicate it to electrode manufacturing. The Business Journal also identifies Linda Zhong as the company’s founder and chief executive, underscoring how closely she is tied to the expansion.
The site and the plan
A filing with the California Energy Commission details LiCAP’s proposal to retrofit the vacant facility at 5849 88th Street into a 500 MWh Activated Dry Electrode manufacturing line. The CEQA notice spells out interior tenant improvements, including about 15,000 square feet carved out for offices and R&D, and describes operations that will range from receiving and storing raw materials to dry mixing and processing powders, roll-to-roll lamination, slitting, packaging, quality control and shipping finished electrode rolls.
State support and industry ties
LiCAP is not starting from scratch. The company previously announced a 300 MWh roll-to-roll cathode production line last summer with backing from the California Energy Commission, and it has highlighted partnerships and letters of intent with equipment and cell manufacturers as it brings its dry-electrode process to market. That background is laid out in company and industry materials, including a profile on CALSTART.
Local real estate and jobs
Commercial listings show the Power Inn property at 5849 88th St was marketed as a 40,500-square-foot industrial building with an asking price in the roughly $5.6 million range before the sale, according to market information on LoopNet. Local filings and company materials state that the retrofit is expected to boost domestic battery supply-chain capacity and create “clean-energy jobs,” although public documents do not spell out a specific head count.
In a July 2025 press release via Newswire, CEO Dr. Linda Zhong described the company’s production milestones as “not just technical progress, but a clear demonstration of how public-private collaboration can accelerate the commercialization of breakthrough clean energy technologies.” LiCAP says it will move ahead with interior retrofits at the Sacramento site while it continues to ramp up its production lines.
