Featured in Embracing change – 02-2020

Building Europe’s battery business

In just three years, Northvolt has progressed from a startup to become Europe’s response to the Asian dominance of global battery manufacturing. pv magazine investigates why Northvolt is setting up units in Sweden, Germany, and Poland, what the firm’s goals are, and how it is attempting to achieve them.

By

Ilias Tsagas

10 Feb 2020

An artist’s rendering of the planned factory in Salzgitter, Germany – a joint venture between Northvolt and Volkswagen. | Image: Northvolt

Just 20 people worked for Northvolt two years ago. It has now grown to about 500 staff members. Sara Hermansson, Northvolt’s technical recruiter, informed an audience of this development at event held in Berlin in October 2019, hosted by the EU-funded Innoenergy group. The biggest obstacle to Northvolt’s development is finding the right people and …

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