Dundee to host battery Megafactory

• AMTE Power states new facility will directly develop up to 215 high skilled on-site jobs

AMTE Power has actually picked Dundee in Scotland as the preferred site for its first Megafactory to produce homegrown battery cells for power storage and also e-mobility markets.

The manufacturing facility will directly develop as much as 215 high skilled on-site jobs as well as 800 even more across the supply chain by creating the high performance battery cells required to assist amaze vehicles, homes, and also markets for the UK's power transition.

AMTE Power remains one of the only companies in the UK producing battery cells as well as the recommended new site at Dundee's Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) would make sure the business can quickly scale up to mass production volumes, it stated.

The Megafactory will certainly complement AMTE Power's existing facility in Thurso, Caithness, enabling the company to react to high levels of passion in its cells from consumers in the automotive and also power storage markets as well as get them to market quicker.

AMTE Power remains in conversation with Scottish Enterprise to help bring the advancement onward, in line with the organisation's objective to provide financing as well as support to drive sustainable economic growth in Scotland.

Following the proposed fit out of an existing building at MSIP, AMTE Power's 500MWh plant could be operational and in production by the 3rd quarter of 2025.

AMTE means to use the site at Dundee as a template for future manufacturing facilities generating its high value item for UK clients.

The design is repeatable as well as is anticipated to allow AMTE to be flexible in satisfying market demand for its set apart cells.

Megafactories are smaller sized than gigafactories and can, therefore, be created and come to be functional much faster.

They have the fringe benefit of having the ability to use existing framework providing more flexibility in location, calling for much less investment and also a quicker path to earnings, AMTE stated.