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CATL’s Debrecen battery cell factory is fully prepared to begin operations and is currently awaiting the necessary permits. At the same time, the company has launched its fifth recruitment campaign, as announced during a press conference held on Wednesday at the Debrecen site (eastern Hungary).
In her address, Qin Liang, director of the Debrecen plant, noted that although CATL is a relatively young company, having been founded in 2011, it has rapidly grown into the global market leader in electric vehicle batteries. The company has also established a leading position in the energy storage systems market.
The factory currently covers 105 hectares, but once all the facilities are built, it will occupy 221 hectares, said the factory director. She emphasized that since 2023, they have collaborated with approximately 300 local companies, partly in the areas of construction, infrastructure development, and production.
The director noted that module production has been underway on two production lines since the fall of 2024, with a third line added in May.
The three lines produce 700 modules per day, and to date, nearly 400,000 battery modules have been manufactured, with the cells for these still coming from China.
On the European market, nearly 100,000 cars are already equipped with batteries manufactured here.
In 2025, the Debrecen-based company generated 100 billion forints (280 million euros) in revenue from module production alone, on which it paid taxes in Hungary, said Qin Liang. Currently,
- 1,470 people work at the Debrecen plant,
- two-thirds of the employees are Hungarian,
- one-third are temporary agency workers, but the company would like to replace them with local workers as well.
By the end of the year, they plan to increase their workforce to 2,300. She noted that once the battery cell factory begins operations, Chinese workers will arrive to transfer their knowledge to local employees. She also mentioned that they are placing an emphasis on engaging young talent, which is why they are collaborating with the universities in Debrecen and Miskolc, as well as the Debrecen Vocational Training Center.
Photo: Facebook/CATL Debrecen
Mihály Bodnár, the company’s head of occupational safety and environmental protection, explained that sustainability, operational safety, and environmental protection are of paramount importance to CATL; furthermore, the company aims to become carbon-neutral as quickly as possible once battery cell production begins.
In addition to the regulatory monitoring, the company has established its own monitoring system, which examines the geological environment at 18 points at three different depths and also monitors sediment in the reservoirs.
Groundwater quality is monitored by 15 monitoring wells, and an environmental noise monitoring system has also been set up, which operates continuously.
He emphasized that in 2025, they implemented technological improvements that reduced water usage by 30 percent; the most significant of these was the use of next-generation adiabatic cooling towers, which limit daily water demand to predetermined limits.
He explained that there is also a solution for periods of extreme heat, as they have installed a 3,100-cubic-meter buffer tank designed to balance out peak consumption. This system was designed to operate using graywater. “As soon as the city puts this regional water network into operation, we will connect to it—which is expected to happen in the summer of 2027—and until then, we will use surface water,” he explained.
In response to a reporter’s question, it was noted that the plant currently uses 200 cubic meters of water per day. Groundwater levels are being continuously monitored, although the ongoing construction work does not pose a risk of contamination, they explained. A visitor center will also be available in the battery factory building, where interested visitors can observe the battery manufacturing process.
Via Világgazdaság, Featured image: Facebook/Joó István
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