NÖRDLINGEN, Germany—VARTA AG has opened a new lithium-ion-cell factory here with 15,000 square meters of production space on two floors. New customer orders are already being processed.
With the new factory, VARTA now has a production area totaling 60,000 square meters in Nördlingen. Herbert Schein, CEO of VARTA, sees the expansion as an important step in the company's growth strategy and essential to ensuring Germany as a location for battery technology development.