Battery cell manufacturers in Europe
The 37 battery cell manufacturers listed here make the finished cell, which is the part everything else in a pack is built around. What separates one from the next is chemistry, cell format and the customer they were built to serve. A few run gigawatt-scale plants for carmakers. Others produce lead-acid traction cells for forklifts or large cylindrical cells for defence and marine duty. Announced capacity and operating capacity are different things.
Every company in this category
37 records-
ACC, Automotive Cells Company
- Founded
- 2020
- Ownership
- Joint venture
- Parent company
- Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz, TotalEnergies
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Agratas
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Tata Sons
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
-
Altris
- Founded
- 2017
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- sodium-ion
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Basquevolt
- Founded
- 2022
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- solid-state
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Bater
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- lead-acid
- Applications
- forklift, stationary
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BATTEC
- Founded
- 2009
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- lead-acid, lithium
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CALB Portugal
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- China Aviation Lithium Battery
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
-
CATL Hungary
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd
- Chemistries
- LFP, NMC
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Cegasa
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- lithium
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
-
Customcells
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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EAS Batteries
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Applications
- marine, defence, heavy duty
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
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Eni Storage Systems
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Eni S.p.A.
- Chemistries
- LFP
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Envision AESC
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Envision Group
- Chemistries
- NMC
-
Faradion
- Founded
- 2011
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Reliance Industries Ltd
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FIB / FAAM
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Seri Industrial S.p.A.
- Chemistries
- LFP
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Gotion InoBat Batteries
- Ownership
- Joint venture
- Parent company
- InoBat, Gotion High-Tech
- Applications
- EV
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HE3DA
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Data provider
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HOPPECKE
- Founded
- 1927
- Employees
- 2000-5000
- Ownership
- Privately held
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InoBat
- Founded
- 2019
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- NMC
-
Italvolt
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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Leclanché
- Founded
- 1909
- Ownership
- Publicly listed
- Applications
- marine, rail, BESS
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LG Energy Solution Wrocław
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- LG Energy Solution
- Chemistries
- NMC
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Magna Energy Storage
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Applications
- BESS
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
-
Monbat
- Ownership
- Publicly listed
- Chemistries
- lead-acid, lithium
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
-
Nyobolt
- Founded
- 2019
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Standards named on their site
- ISO 9001
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PowerCo
- Founded
- 2022
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Volkswagen AG
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Prime Batteries Technology
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Parent company
- Rombat S.A. (35%)
- Chemistries
- NMC, LFP
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Rombat
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Metair Investments
- Chemistries
- lead-acid
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Saft
- Founded
- 1918
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- TotalEnergies SE
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Samsung SDI Magyarország
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- Samsung SDI
- Applications
- EV
-
Seri Industrial
- Ownership
- Publicly listed
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
- Role in the battery passport chain
- Obligated operator
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SK On Hungary
- Ownership
- Subsidiary
- Parent company
- SK On
- Applications
- EV
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Skeleton Technologies
- Founded
- 2009
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- supercapacitor
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Sunlight Group
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- lead-acid, lithium
- Applications
- forklift, industrial
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TAB
- Employees
- 1000-2000
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- lead-acid, lithium
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VARTA
- Founded
- 1887
- Ownership
- Publicly listed
- Role under the EU battery rules
- Manufacturer
-
Verkor
- Founded
- 2020
- Ownership
- Privately held
- Chemistries
- NMC
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What to check before you shortlist
Start with corporate status, which matters more in this category than in any other on the site. European cell making has produced real failures alongside its plants: a bankruptcy, a wind-down and several projects whose standing has moved repeatedly. Every record here carries a source URL and the date somebody last checked it and where a business has entered insolvency or stopped cell production the entry says so plainly. That is a statement about what was checked and when. It is not an endorsement, a certification or a view on solvency today.
Transport paperwork comes first in practice. The UN 38.3 summary has to name the cell you intend to buy. Without it the cell does not move by air, sea, road or rail.
Which safety standard applies depends on where the cell ends up, not on what the datasheet happens to mention. A portable product and an industrial installation are answered by different documents and one will not stand in for the other. Our guide to the two sets out which is which. For automotive programmes, ask whether the plant runs APQP, whether it can deliver a PPAP file at the agreed level and what first article inspection covers on the first production lot.
Then push for real production data. A capacity distribution and internal resistance figures from a genuine lot tell you more than a typical value on a datasheet and lot and date coding decides whether you can trace a field failure back to a shift. Two deadlines belong in the first call: the digital battery passport from 18 February 2027, which Article 77 of the regulation sets, then supply chain due diligence from 18 August 2027.
Questions buyers ask before they shortlist
What certifications should a battery cell manufacturer have?
Start with the transport paperwork for the cell you are actually buying, then add IEC 62133-2 if it goes into a portable product or IEC 62619 if it goes into industrial or storage duty. ISO 9001:2015 covers the quality system. Automotive buyers should add IATF 16949 and a PPAP file. Ask to see the certificate itself with its scope and expiry date, not a logo on a web page.
Which European countries have battery cell plants?
Cell making in this directory spans Germany, France, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Czechia and Romania, with smaller operations in Portugal, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Greece. The country filter narrows it. Watch the gap between a registered head office and a production site, because several groups are registered in one country and build cells in another.
How do I check whether a battery cell maker is still operating?
Open the record for its source URL and checked date, then confirm it yourself at the commercial register and on the company website. In this category that step is not optional. Entries flagged for insolvency, restructuring or a wound-down cell business stay visible rather than being deleted, because a dead link teaches you nothing and a marked record teaches you something.
What is the minimum order quantity for battery cells?
Nobody publishes one and any figure you find belongs to a particular chemistry, a particular format and a particular plant. Ask each maker directly for its minimum order quantity (MOQ), its lead time in working days counted from order confirmation and whether it will sell a qualification lot before you commit to production. Those three answers eliminate more candidates than any technical question.