Chinese battery manufacturer CATL increases the number of employees at the Arnstadt plant in Germany.
The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL will be hiring significantly more employees at its Thuringian plant near Arnstadt by the end of the year. The workforce should increase to about 225.
The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL will be hiring additional employees for its plant near Arnstadt in the coming weeks. The workforce is to increase from currently around 180 employees from Thuringia to around 225 by the end of the year, announced CATL European Manager Matthias Zentgraf. In addition, there are 115 employees from China, who are deployed, among other things, in the construction of production plants.
According to Zentgraf, six production lines are to be installed in the 500-metre-long new building in the “Erfurter Kreuz” industrial estate. The plant near Arnstadt is CATL’s first outside of China. In the future, it will primarily supply automobile manufacturers with batteries for their e-cars.
CATL has been building the lithium-ion battery factory near Arnstadt since autumn 2019. Currently, the power requirements of the factory and a necessary 110-kilovolt connection are being discussed. According to Zentgraf, the supply in the future will be exclusively with green electricity. That’s what the company’s customers would expect.
CATL also took over large parts of a former solar factory in the industrial park, among other things for logistics tasks. CATL’s Europe Centre is also based there.
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CATL increases the number of employees at the plant near Arnstadt, November 24, 2021
