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Estonia’s Skeleton to invest €220 million to build supercapacitor factory in Leipzig
Estonian energy storage tech firm Skeleton Technologies will invest €220 million to build a fully automated, digitalised manufacturing plant to produce supercapacitors at Leipzig in Germany. Out of the investment, €100 million will be utilised in manufacturing equipment in Leipzig area and €120 million will be used for scale-up and R&D. Planned by Siemens, the production at the factory is slated to begin in 2024, Skeleton said. The collaboration will help scale up the production of next-generation supercapacitors. The factory in Markranstaedt, Leipzig will build 12 million cells a year, 8 million of which would be smaller cells for passenger vehicles and 4 million would be larger cells for heavy-duty transportation.