Lyten expands battery manufacturing operations in Europe. Last updated: March 18, 2026 5:12 pm Published March 18, 2026 Lyten, an organization specialising in lithium-sulfur batteries and vitality storage, has acquired Northvolt Ett and Northvolt Labs in Sweden. The acquisition gives Lyten with 16 GWh of present battery manufacturing capability throughout 160 hectares of land. The acquisition consists of superior infrastructure and buildings, in addition to a battery analysis and improvement centre. The acquisition helps Lyten's growth within the European market. As a part of its development, Lyten is establishing the Lyten Industrial Hub in Skellefteå on the Northvolt Ett web site. The hub will use present infrastructure, together with hydroelectric energy, to co-locate battery manufacturing, AI knowledge centres, and complementary industrial operations which might be necessary to each Sweden and the EU. In a associated improvement, EdgeConneX plans to amass a knowledge centre web site from Lyten in Skellefteå. The location has the potential to scale right into a one-gigawatt knowledge centre campus, which might be among the many largest in Europe. Following the acquisition, Lyten will restart operations at Northvolt Ett and Northvolt Labs. Northvolt Ett will produce lithium-ion NMC batteries for battery vitality storage programs, automotive purposes, and different mobility sectors. Gross sales of those cells are anticipated to produce Lyten's BESS manufacturing facility in Poland by the second half of 2026. At Northvolt Labs in Västerås, collaboration with Lyten's Silicon Valley staff will deal with industrialising lithium-sulfur battery know-how for large-scale manufacturing. To help these operations, Lyten will launch a rehiring programme in Skellefteå and Västerås. Primarily based on projected buyer demand, the corporate expects to make use of over 600 extra employees inside the subsequent 12 months, sustaining a continued hiring tempo within the following years. The native municipality of Skellefteå famous the importance of resuming battery manufacturing, which aligns with the EU's battery technique and contributes to Europe's place within the sector.

Germany: Lyten to launch battery production at former Northvolt site in Heide by 2028. US battery manufacturer Lyten plans to create around 1,000 jobs at the Northvolt site in Heide (Schleswig-Holstein). Lyten CEO Dan Cook has now informed representatives of the state government about this. The battery factory is scheduled to begin operations in 2028 and will produce cells for a wide range of applications. By Florian Treiss 18.03.2026 - 10:10 Following the insolvency of Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt, its plans to establish a cell factory in Heide, which would have created 3,000 jobs, appeared doomed. However, in August, a surprising development unfolded when US battery manufacturer Lyten announced its intention to take over Northvolt's sites in Sweden and Germany. Since then, there has been renewed optimism for the Heide site, where the land had already been prepared, but construction of the battery cell factory, named Northvolt Drei, had never truly begun. Now, roughly six months later, Lyten CEO Dan Cook presented his plans for the Heide site to the state government in Kiel in Northern Germany. Lyten's ambitions are significantly more modest than Northvolt's original plans. As in October, Lyten aims to create 'only' 1,000 jobs - just one-third of the number Northvolt had envisioned for its heavily state- and federally funded project. At the same time, Cook emphasised that the new factory would operate relatively independently of the ramp-up of electric mobility. "We plan to manufacture batteries for a wide range of applications, including defence, stationary energy storage, mobility, and electric vehicles," Cook stated, adding: "We are not Northvolt, we are Lyten." The former Northvolt site in Heide will not only be used for battery cell production but also for battery storage systems and data centres. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2027, with battery cell production expected to start in 2028. Schleswig-Holstein's Minister-President Daniel Günther (CDU) welcomed the announcement, describing the timeline outlined by Cook as a positive signal. He added that outstanding issues would now be addressed in coordination with the federal government, stressing that the next steps require alignment at the national level. Indeed, Cook is scheduled to meet with representatives of the federal government later this week. This is particularly necessary because, while the takeover of the insolvent Swedish parts of Northvolt - namely the main factory in Skellefteå and the development centre in Västerås - has been completed, negotiations with the federal government, the state-owned development bank KfW, and the state of Schleswig-Holstein regarding the German Northvolt subsidiary are still ongoing. 0 comments. about "Germany: Lyten to launch battery production at former Northvolt site in Heide by 2028" Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

PRESS RELEASE: Lyten to acquire Northvolt Revolt battery recycling plant. * Lyten, the global leader in lithium-sulfur batteries, announced it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Northvolt Revolt Ett ("Revolt"), one of the largest battery recycling sites in Europe. * The transaction follows Lyten's recent closing of its Northvolt Sweden acquisition, with Revolt being an important addition to the Lyten Industrial Hub in Skellefteå. * The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. SAN JOSE, Calif., and STOCKHOLM, Sweden - March 13, 2026 - (Cision) Following the closing of its acquisition of Northvolt Ett and Northvolt Labs on 27 February 2026, Lyten announced today that it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Revolt, the former Northvolt recycling site in Skellefteå, Sweden, including licenses to key technology. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed by any parties. Revolt is one of Europe's largest fully integrated battery recycling plants, with an installed recycling capacity of 8500 tonnes/year and the infrastructure to scale further. The site is powered by 100 percent fossil-free energy and located directly alongside the Lyten Ett gigafactory in Skellefteå. The facility supports the recycling of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. Dan Cook, Lyten CEO and Co-Founder stated, "The Revolt recycling plant is an important piece in enabling Europe's battery supply chain independence and supports Lyten's goal of reducing mined mineral content in our batteries. We are currently identifying the right partners to restart and scale recycling operations at the Lyten Industrial Hub in Skellefteå." The Revolt acquisition continues Lyten's strategy of building a Lyten Industrial Hub at the former Northvolt Ett location in Skellefteå. Following completion of its Northvolt Sweden acquisition in February, Lyten is now actively restarting lithium-ion battery manufacturing and has signed an agreement with EdgeConneX to acquire a data center site with potential to scale to up to 1 GW of data center capacity, making it one of the largest data center sites in Europe. This acquisition is being fully funded from equity investment in Lyten. Lyten is working through all appropriate legal and regulatory approval processes in Sweden and expects the acquisitions to close in the second quarter of this year. About Lyten Lyten, founded in 2015, is the global leader in lithium-sulfur batteries and advanced 3D Graphene materials. It has received more than $625M in equity investment and secured LOIs for $650M in financing from the Export Import Bank of the US. Lyten is privately held with more than 1000 investors, including Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, Prime Movers Lab, the European Investment Fund, and Luxembourg Future Fund. No single external investor holds more than 5% of the company equity and all investors of significance are based in North America and Europe. Lyten's board is made up of US and European members, the US corporate headquarters is in San Jose, Calif., and its European corporate headquarters is in Luxembourg. The company lists more than 550 patents granted or pending and is currently manufacturing domestically sourced lithium-sulfur batteries in San Jose, Calif. for drone, autonomous system, and defense customers and operates the largest battery energy storage systems manufacturing facility in Europe, in Gdansk, Poland. Lyten owns a growing portfolio of products utilizing its 3D Graphene supermaterials platform in concrete, additive manufacturing, motorsports and defense. Lyten was named Fast Company's #8 Most Innovative Energy Company and named one of America's Top Green Technology Companies by Time in 2024, 2025, 2026 and been named to Silicon Valley Defense Journal's Top 100 National Security Companies for the third consecutive year in 2025.