Sweco helps to deliver Europe’s largest “green battery” manufacturing plant
Published: Apr 1, 2020
Sweco, in alliance with Nordic industrial partners ABB and Fineweld, are to deliver production units to battery industry disruptor Northvolt.
Forerunners in energy storage industry for electric vehicles and sustainable transportation
Being one of Europe’s first gigafactories, Northvolt Ett, will serve as Northvolt’s primary site for the manufacturing of active material, cell assembly, recycling and auxiliaries. Aside from first-rate technical expertise, hardwired into the DNA at Northvolt is adherence to sustainable manufacturing practice. Clean energy will power battery cell manufacturing while the company strives to control a large part of the value chain from raw materials to end of life and recycling.
In its role as a committed partner, Sweco will take responsibility for project management tasks and engineering services. Key engineering service areas are process, technical safety, layout, equipment, piping, steel structures, electrification instrumentation and automation. ABB will assume responsibility for electrification, automation and instrumentation deliveries, while industrial piping specialist Fineweld will be responsible for mechanical equipment, piping deliveries and installation.
Northvolt Ett is to be powered by 100 percent clean energy and will, therefore, be in line with Sweco’s ambition to support sustainable industry of the future.
As electric car sales continue to increase 40-50% annually demand is high for Northvolt’s clean energy. Large-scale manufacturing will commence in 2021 and annual capacity will increase up to at least 32 GWh – enough to power more than 500,000 electric vehicles by 2024, with the potential to expand to 40 GWh in the future.
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