Automotive Cells Company

Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine; Aquitaine; Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Location of affected unit(s)
Bruges
Sector
Manufacturing
(26 - 27) Manufacture of electrical, electronic and optical products
27.2 - Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
27.20 - Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
150 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
28 September 2021
Employment effect (start)
28 September 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021

Description

The Automotive Cells Company (ACC), which brings together the consortium of shareholders TotalEnergies/Saft, Stellantis and Mercedes/Benz-Daimler, has announced the recruitment of 150 employees by the end of 2021.

The hirings concern its R&D centre in Bruges, near Bordeaux (Gironde). The objective is to produce, by 2030, more than 2.5 million batteries for electric vehicles, while today 95% of them come from China.

This site currently employs more than 300 technicians and managers, but by the end of the year they will reach 450.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2021), Automotive Cells Company, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 105341, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/105341.