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Japanese battery cell manufacturer AESC has commissioned a lithium-ion battery plant in Sunderland, England, with an annual capacity of 15.8 gigawatt-hours.
Volkswagen subsidiary PowerCo has started production of its NMC-based Unified Cells at its first European gigafactory in Salzgitter, Germany.
The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB has carried out the first end-to-end cell production using exclusively European plant technology in Münster, Germany.
French company Verkor has opened its first gigafactory in Bourbourg for the production of lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles.
SEAT and CUPRA have opened a 300-million-euro plant in the Spanish city of Martorell for the assembly of around 300,000 battery systems per year.
Despite unfavorable trends, battery recycling capacities in Europe continue to grow strongly, causing plants to operate below capacity.
Due to declining sales figures for electric vehicles and the discontinuation of government subsidies, SK On has terminated its joint venture with Ford in the United States.
South Korean battery manufacturer Samsung SDI is set to supply lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for stationary energy storage systems to North America for around 1.36 billion US dollars.
French chemical company Arkema and Chinese separator specialist SEMCORP intend to jointly accelerate the development of battery separators in the future.
Under a new one-billion-dollar contract, LG Energy Solution will supply Mercedes-Benz with batteries in Europe and North America from 2028 to 2035.
Farasis Energy will equip two European models of the Chinese “GAC Aion” car brand with battery systems based on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells.
RWTH Aachen University will launch the practice-oriented “AI-Driven Optimization of Production Processes” consortium study in early 2026, for which industrial companies can now register.
POSCO Future M from South Korea and Factorial from the USA are planning to collaborate on the development of materials for solid-state batteries.
Australian company Vulcan Energy Resources has secured total financing of around 2.2 billion euros for its Lionheart project to gain lithium from the Upper Rhine Graben in Germany.
German company Accurec claims it has opened the first recycling plant in Europe capable of recovering lithium from all types of such batteries.
EcoPro from South Korea has opened a 440,000-square-meter plant in Hungary to produce cathode material for around 600,000 electric vehicle batteries per year.







