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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.20 - Manufacture of batteries and accumulators
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2022
Foreseen end date
1 December 2024
Description
Swedish company Anodox Energy Systems has announced plans to produce electric vehicle batteries in Riga and will create up to 300 new jobs. From december 2022, the company plans to invest up to three million euros and will employ around 40 people to assemble electric car batteries. Next year the company plans to build a second plant in Riga overall creating up to 300 new jobs.
Anodox Energy Systems was founded in 2016 as a startup in Gothenburg, Sweden. From the very beginning, it worked on the development and adaptation of various energy system products to the needs of the automotive industry. In the first part of investment in Latvia, Anodox will produce high-quality battery packs for electric cars and light trucks in an automated factory. In the second, Anodox will produce high performance cells leveraging LFP technology.
Sources
28 March 2022: Public broadcasting of Latvia (eng.lsm.lv)
4 April 2022: Public broadcasting of Latvia (www.lsm.lv)
Eurofound (2022), Anodox Latvia, Business expansion in Latvia, factsheet number 106921, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106921.
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