Interesting note here. The Deutsche-Bank used the same references that this report used...........Also a very good read for Lithium demand.
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http://www.pressebox.com/pressrelea...tion-areas-in-Germany-until-2020/boxid/796098
BMZ is going to more than quadruple production areas in Germany until 2020
Europe's Gigafactory: BMZ opens up first section of Europe's biggest lithium-ion battery manufacture
Officially opened up the first section of Europe’s biggest battery factory in a ceremony (from left): Marco Schütz (CEO LIST AG), Dr. Ulrich Reuter (District Administrator, district of Aschaffenburg), Sven Bauer (CEO BMZ GmbH), Daniel Fabbiano (Plant Manager BMZ GmbH), Winfried Bruder (Mayor Municipality of Karlstein)
(PresseBox) (Karlstein / Großwelzheim, 12.05.2016) Following a construction time of only a little more than one year the Karlstein BMZ GmbH, Europe's leading developer and producer of intelligent lithium-ion batteries, has now opened up the first two production, logistics and office buildings in Karlstein-Großwelzheim in addition to the already existing production areas of 7,000 m² at the present company headquarters. In the manufacturing units disposing of 4,800 m² each, up to 200 million lithium-ion batteries of the most different kind and size with an overall storage capacity of about 15 GWh can be developed, produced and tested every year. Until 2020 four further production, laboratory and office buildings covering an entire space of 15,000 m² are planned on the new company site comprising 55,000 m². After the completion of the construction works up to 1,500 BMZ staff members will produce an annual 800 million lithium-ion batteries of the most different sizes with an overall storage capacity of 30 GWh at the industrial site in Karlstein-Großwelzheim alone.
For years BMZ has been investing enormous double-digit sums amounting to millions of euro in the rapid development and enlargement of its international production capacities. At the moment the company disposes of around 120,000 m² production sites in its own companies in Germany, China, the USA and Poland. As company founder and owner Sven Bauer explained during the official opening celebration for the two new buildings to numerous guests from the world of politics and business, as well as administration, the large-scale project in Karlstein-Großwelzheim now marks one further important milestone in the company's 20-year-long history considering the total investment volume of about 80 million euros. "The current discussions on subsidies for electric cars often forget that lithium-ion batteries are also used in e-bikes, electrical appliances, gardening tools, energy storage systems, transport vehicles, excavators and so on. Unlike electric cars we are presently undergoing a real demand boom in many of these sectors, and we assume that the demand in these segments will further increase by 15 to 30 per cent annually in the coming years depending on application range. The modular concept of our new ultra-modern factory units enables BMZ to respond even faster and more flexible to this growth scenario as well as specified customer requests in the future," Bauer is pleased
