Volkswagen’s Sciania, Noshuqtarun Yarvolt’s heavy industrial battery package unit

Stockholm (Reuters) – Volkswagen truck master Scania, on Friday, agreed to obey the norvel of Northvolt, this revived an open-ended operation.

Last month, Sweden’s Northvolt, last month in one of the country’s largest corporate failures, the Asian electric vehicle presented the largest corporate failures of the last month in order to develop a rival to battery manufacturers.

Scania, part of Volkswagen’s truck unit, Traton, offered to buy $ 6 million northern northern systems in February, but the bankruptcy plan caught.

Scania, the application of the battery manufacturer and appeal, on Friday, after the bankruptcy, he noted the first sale of northern assets after bankruptcy.

The section with a 260 employee is a battery systems for use in construction, mining and other heavy industrial equipment in Poland, and is also a center of research and development in Sweden.

Northvolt has tried to sell its non-century enterprises to try to save the main operations producing battery cells for EVS.

Scania said that the purchase is in accordance with the development of complementary enterprises to increase the company’s long-term competitiveness.

“This purchase will strengthen electrified applications for roadside applications with Scania,” said the Northvolt systems will continue working as usual in industrial operations.

(Marie Mannes written by Anna Ringstrom; to edit by Terje Solsvik and Jamie)