The commissioning of the CATL battery factory at Erfurter Kreuz can officially begin

04.04.2022

Today, the second partial permit for commissioning the battery factory in the "Erfurter Kreuz" industrial park in Amt Wachsenburg was presented, as part of the application under the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG). This allows the Chinese battery manufacturer CATL to ramp up production to a partial capacity of 8 GWh per year in the coming months.

Matthias Zentgraf (Head of CATL Europe), Anja Siegesmund (Thuringian Minister for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation) and Mario Suckert (President of the Thuringian State Office for the Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation – TLUBN) Image source: CATL / Paul-Philipp Braun

The company is investing approximately €1.8 billion in Thuringia to build Europe's largest cell manufacturing facility and Germany's first battery factory. This project is expected to create around 2,000 jobs.

Media information | Thuringian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society (thueringen.de)

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