On Monday May 13, the Korean company Enchem announced at the Choose France summit that it was setting up an electrolyte production unit in Dunkirk.
This 57 million euro investment should allow for the creation of 100 jobs in the Hauts-de-France region by 2027.
Scheduled to be operational in September 2025, the plant will have an annual capacity of 150,000 tons of electrolytes, 40,000 tons of recycled NMP and 4,000 tons of cathode suspension.
The arrival of Enchem, Korea’s leading electrolyte producer, in Dunkirk represents a major step forward for both the regional battery ecosystem and the local industrial ecosystem.
Alongside gigafactories, cathode producers and recyclers, this will bring a new technological brick to the value chain and establish Hauts-de-France once again as the nerve center of Europe’s Battery Valley.