Lithium-ion battery gigafactory to be built in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

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Australian mining company Magnis Resources Limited recently announced the signing of a MoU for a 30GWh Lithium-ion battery with integrated Lithium-ion battery recycling plant in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, with the industrialised Emscher-Lippe region.

The agreement is supported by the North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) government and has been signed by Magnis Resources and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) WiN Emscher-Lippe GmbH (WIN).

The WIN PPP members include Energy and Chemicals giants such as British Petroleum (BP), EVONIK, INEOS, SABIC, SASOL, E.ON, Uniper, RAG and RWE/ Innogy, a number of financial institutions, government entities and economic development entities such as NRW-Bank, NRW.Invest. Thirteen regional municipalities for the economic development of the Emscher-Lippe region an industrialised area in NRW, are also members.

 

Claus Ableiter