Toray Industries, Inc. announced that its German subsidiary, Greenerity GmbH, held a groundbreaking ceremony a day earlier for its second plant.
Located in industrial area of Alzenau, Bavaria, the plant will develop, manufacture, and sell components for hydrogen fuel cells. The new facility is scheduled to go online in November 2021.
The new facility will install equipment to efficiently produce catalyst-coated membranes and membrane electrode assemblies, which are key components of hydrogen fuel cells. Once running at full capacity, the combined annual output of both offerings would be an estimated 10 million units.
“Greenerity will position itself through the new plant to add capacity and thus cater to surging demand for catalyst-coated membranes and membrane electrode assemblies in the years ahead,” the company said in its press statement.
In 2015, Toray acquired Greenerity for the latter’s catalyst coated membrane and membrane electrode assembly design technologies, combining them with related material technologies of its own to expand the businesses as a manufacturing and sales bases.