Commissioning of the CATL battery factory at Erfurter Kreuz can officially start

04.04.2022

Today, the second partial approval for commissioning within the framework of the BImSch application (Federal Immission Control Act) of the battery factory was handed over in the industrial area “Erfurter Kreuz“ in Amt Wachsenburg. 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 Europe CATL), Anja Siegesmund (Thuringian Minister for Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation) and Mario Suckert (President of the Thuringian State Office for Environment, Mining and Nature Conservation – TLUBN) Image source: CATL / Paul-Philipp Braun

The company is investing around 1.8 billion euros in Thuringia in the largest cell production facility in Europe and the first battery factory in Germany. This is expected to create around 2,000 jobs.

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

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