By the year 2020, one of the world’s three biggest suppliers of electrolyte for Li-Ion battery inserts, the Chinese company GTHR, will develop a production facility of electrolyte for electric car batteries in the administrative district of Oława. The initiative is one of the many new high-profile investments being carried out in Lower Silesia.

The foreign project is part of the strategy of the Programme for the Development of Electromobility in Poland, developed and implemented by the Ministry of Energy. “The Godzikowice project undertaken by the Chinese investor Zhangjiagang Guotai-Huarong New Chemical Materials (GTHR) is an element of a strategy aiming to support the development of the electromobility industry in our country. We’re extremely glad that such investment projects are coming into being in Poland, which is becoming one of the sector’s most important players in the world.  In the long run, it’ll translate into an increase in the popularity of electric cars on our roads and result in a considerable improvement of air quality in Poland.” – says Krzysztof Senger, Vice President for Foreign Investment with PAIH (The Polish Investment and Trade Agency).

GTHR’s global presence

Founded in 2000, the Chinese Zhangjiagang Guotai Huarong Chemical New Material Co., Ltd. is a hi-tech company producing silicon-based organic material and one of the world’s biggest suppliers of electrolytes applied in the lithium battery industry. It operates in accordance with the highest standards laid out by ISO9001 and TS16949. The facility to be developed in Poland will be the third one to be owned by GTHR and its first plant outside China. The facility under development is expected to double the company’s production capacity.

GTHR in Poland

The Li-ion battery electrolyte insert factory in Godzikowice, administrative district of Oława, will be one of the largest facilities of this kind in Europe. Its location will complement the European and regional network of the electric car industry. The plant’s annual output will make it possible to supply battery inserts for up to a million electric cars. In the first phase of its operation, 60 employees will be hired, while the projected target workforce amounts to about 100 people.

Works aiming to put together all necessary documentation are currently in progress. The plot where the facility is to be developed has been already purchased.