Automotive Cells Company (ACC)

Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Hauts-de-France; Nord-Pas de Calais;
Location of affected unit(s)
Billy-Berclau, Douvrin
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
1,400 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
30 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
30 May 2023
Foreseen end date
31 January 2030

Description

Automotive Cells Company (ACC) has announced in May 2023 to create between 1,400 and 2,000 direct jobs by 2030, a figure that does not include subcontractors and suppliers of its new gigafactory. In September, 600 employees were already recruited. ACC has installed a gigafactory, located not far from a Stellantis petrol engine plant. The plant in Pas-de-Calais, is the first of four sites in the future electric "battery valley" that will give a new industrial lease of life to the former mining region in northern France.

In 2021, the company have already hired 150 new employees in France (ACC 2021 - FR)

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2023), Automotive Cells Company (ACC), Business expansion in France, factsheet number 201256, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/201256.