Botree Cycling – Chinese company wants to settle in Guben and recycle batteries.
Guben is booming – the next major investor is just around the corner: After Rock Tech wants to produce battery materials and Jack Link’s meat snacks, Botree Cycling now wants to recycle batteries – and create around 100 jobs.
The Chinese company “Botree Cycling” wants to invest in Guben (Spree-Neisse) and, among other things, build a battery recycling plant. The city announced that a letter of intent to purchase the property had been signed in mid-November. The company wants to invest up to 100 million euros in Guben.
It would be Botree Cycling’s first location in Europe – and the third major investment in the city in a short period of time. Last year, the German-Canadian company Rock Tech Lithium announced that it wanted to produce lithium hydroxide in Guben.
The substance is an important component of rechargeable batteries. The US company Jack Link’s is currently building a first production hall. It produces meat snacks and is best known in Germany for the mini salami Bifi.
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tart in just a few years
With Botree Cycling, new life is to be breathed into old batteries in the southern industrial area.
The city of Guben said:
Around 100 employees will be employed on site during ongoing operations.
In addition, up to 30 training positions could be offered at the same time. The company is planning a large education and training center. Specialists in battery recycling are to be trained in Guben.
If all goes according to plan, the company’s recycling facility is expected to be up and running in 2025, the year Rock Tech plans to start up its facilities. “Furthermore, [ Botree Cybling ] is open to expansion at the Guben site,” the city said.
Part of the battery value chain
According to its own statements, the Chinese company has been looking intensively for a possible location in recent months. It received help from the Brandenburg Economic Development Agency and the Federal Republic of Germany’s economic development agency, Germany Trade and Invest.
Cheng Wang, the company’s Business Development Manager in the statement quoted from the city.
Even the first talks with the city of Guben’s economic development agency and with Mayor Fred Mahro have strengthened our conviction that the Guben-Süd industrial area is the ideal location for our settlement project.
According to Guben’s Mayor Fred Mahro (CDU), the settlement confirms that the industrial location is attractive for large investments.
Fred Mahro, Guben’s Mayor said:
We have to do everything we can to take advantage of this spirit of optimism for our city and the region.
According to Mahro, Botree Cycling ties in with Rock Tech Lithium infrastructure offers the best conditions for becoming a central component of the battery value chain and thus part of the Brandenburg e-mobility cluster,” says Mahro.
New jobs
If all three current industrial settlements are implemented as planned, a total of around 350 jobs would be created in Guben according to the current status. 170 employees at Rock Tech Lithium will join the approximately 100 at Botree Cybling.
Jack Link’s plans to start in the summer of 2024 with around 80 employees. The first in production and technology are to be set in mid-2023.
The US company broke ground for its production plant in Guben in October. It will be Jack Link’s second production site in Germany, after Ansbach in Bavaria.
Chinesisches Unternehmen will sich in Guben ansiedeln und Batterien recyceln, November 23, 2022
