Finnish Battery Recycling Company Gets Green Light in Germany

Finland’s Fortum , one of Europe’s five largest energy companies, has received permission from authorities to start operations at its new lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Kirchardt. The company founded its German subsidiary in the southwestern town in the fall of last year.

US Chemicals and Materials Company Opens German Battery Tech Center

The Cabot Corporation has announced plans to set up a new technology center in the western German city of Münster. The facility will be used to speed up the development of applications the American company’s line of battery materials.

Luther Promotes Lithium

Research center will promote lithium-based technologies .

Top Investment 2022 in Saarland

Saarland understands transformation. With the multiple changes in its national status since the First World War, the state in direct vicinity of France and Luxembourg already had to repeatedly adjust to fundamental changes. The last turning point to be managed was the end of coal mining in 2012, after more than 200 years. Today Saarland is a model region – also for mastering structural change.

Top Investments 2022 in Thuringia

In 2022, Thuringia again proved its attractiveness as a business, investment and tourism location that attracts investors and also offers good conditions for expansion for those companies that are already operating in the Free State and want to expand here. LEG successfully accompanied numerous projects in its anniversary year: founded in 1992, the Erfurt-based economic development agency celebrated its 30th year.

Top Investments 2022 in Brandenburg

Brandenburg will soon be home to Europe’s largest lithium factory. The Canadian company Rock Tech Lithium is starting operations in the Lusatia industrial region.

Germany Leads Europe in Hydrogen Patents

A long-term study by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Energy Agency covering 2011-2020 has found that Europe’s largest economy also led the way in hydrogen patents on the continent.

Darwin’s Solution for Complex Plastics

International companies that come to Germany get direct access not only to Europe’s biggest market but to a unique R&D landscape. The Japanese-German conglomerate behind the DarWIN tool is a prime example.

Best of 2022

Throughout 2022, this website featured more than 300 articles and videos about Germany as a business and high-tech location. Below is a list so that you can catch up on anything you might have missed.

Netherlands, Germany Launch Joint Green Hydrogen Initiative

Two Northern European neighbors are coming together to accelerate the scale-up of the new hydrogen economy.