Valmet Automotive Expands Uusikaupunki Motor vehicle Plant

In the long run, Valmet Automotive’s car or truck plant will not only create passenger autos, but also will put in higher volume production of battery systems for electrically powered motor vehicles. Beside Salo, Uusikaupunki will be the second plant with superior-volume battery procedure creation. The expansion is a crucial step in the implementation of the strategy to establish Valmet Automotive as a Tier-1 system supplier for battery techniques and modules. The battery manufacturing facility in Uusikaupunki is scheduled to go into operation in the latter half of 2021.

The vehicle producing will continue to be as a main operation at the Uusikaupunki web-site. But one of the most important goals in the more development is to build a substantial-voltage and superior-volume battery program generation as a further product or service in addition to the automobile production. Concurrently, Valmet Automotive also commenced design functions to develop the battery method production at the battery plant in Salo in Finland, which went into production by October 2019.

The choice to create a substantial-volume battery process output facility in Uusikaupunki is centered on the reality, that Valmet Automotive a short while ago has been nominated as a Tier-1 procedure provider for a battery plan by a leading, new purchaser from the automotive industry. This nomination consists of the assembly of the battery pack as perfectly as the creation of the mobile modules.