{"id":10955,"date":"2022-11-02T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2022-11-02T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:19:29","slug":"verkor-raises-more-than-250-million-euros-in-additional-financing-for-its-verkor-innovation-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/verkor-raises-more-than-250-million-euros-in-additional-financing-for-its-verkor-innovation-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Verkor raises more than 250 million euros in additional financing for its Verkor Innovation Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Verkor receives the support of the European Investment Bank, securing the financing of its innovation centre in Grenoble, which is coming to completion. This latest mechanism mobilises Verkor\u2019s solid financial ecosystem of industrial partners in the battery sector, commercial banks, investment funds, and public banks.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n

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Located in Grenoble, the VIC is Verkor\u2019s technological and innovation centre: a 15,000\u202fm2 building comprising an R&D lab for designing high-performance batteries, an intelligent pilot line with a capacity of 150 MWh\/year, and a training centre to meet the battery sector\u2019s growing need for a specialised workforce. Construction is already well underway, with delivery set for the first half of 2023.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the inauguration of its R&D lab, an integral part of the Verkor Innovation Centre, the company raised more than 250 million euros, with the following breakdown:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • The European Investment Bank is financing<\/span> \u20ac49m <\/span>as part of the Energy Demonstration Projects (EDP) product of its initiative <\/span>InnovFin<\/span> \u2013 EU Finance for Innovators \u2013 in cooperation with the European Commission, to develop pilot projects in the energy sector. Verkor affirms its status as a company committed to the development of a European electric vehicle battery ecosystem.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Bpifrance Assurance Export will guarantee <\/span>\u20ac<\/span>51m of bank financing. This financing, currently being finalised, got a provisional agreement from Santander Corporate & Investment Banking and Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale. This strategic project guarantee (GPS), granted by the French Government to \u201cLarge strategic projects\u201d allows the state and the BPI to support the development of national champions. Verkor is the first project to benefit from this French state support to strategic projects.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      • A convertible bond issue with financial partners like Demeter FMET and the SPI investment fund (\u201cSoci\u00e9t\u00e9 de projets industriels\u201d) operated by Bpifrance on behalf of the French Government in the framework of the \u201cInvest for the Future\u201d programme; industrial partners like Plastic Omnium, Sibayne-Stillwater, Groupe IDEC, Schneider Electric and Verkor employees that support Verkor\u2019s project bringing together several million euros of personal investment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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        • The total acquisition of the Siemens site in Grenoble and the co-investment with GROUPE IDEC for a total of more than 70 million euros with the goal of finalising the Verkor Innovation Centre, moving the company\u2019s headquarters and opening the \u201cEcole de la Batterie.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Benoit Lemaignan, CEO of Verkor<\/span><\/b> said: <\/span>\u201cThis announcement is a further concretisation of the efforts undertaken over the last two years to build the future of electric mobility in Europe. I welcome the support of our institutional and industrial partners to make our project a reality. I know we can continue to count on them for the next milestone of our development. I would also like to thank our team who, over and above their unwavering commitment every day, are betting on the future of our collective project.\u201d\u202f<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Ambroise Fayolle, Vice President of the European Investment Bank<\/span><\/b> said: <\/span>\u201cThe European Investment Bank is demonstrating its determination to build a better future using European technologies that address the urgency of the fight against climate change, as well as the objective to relocalise strategic value chains. After financing several other projects in the sector like the Northvolt Gigafactory in Sweden and those of Renault in Douai and Stellantis in Douvrain, the European Investment Bank is proud to join the ecosystem of public and private partners supporting Verkor as they reach their goals in France.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty<\/span><\/b> said: <\/span>\u201cThe project Verkor is undertaking will create thousands of jobs locally, while reinforcing what is a strategic sector for France. This promising start-up can count on our continued support.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Laurence Boone, State Secretary to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, with responsibility for Europe<\/span><\/b> added: <\/span>\u201cLast week, the European Union confirmed the objective of 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2035: this is a major step forward towards our climate objectives. It goes hand in hand with the ambitious industrial policy that we are pursuing in Europe and in France, the project implemented by Verkor being a part of it. We are committed to developing French and European production capacities for electric vehicles, batteries and to deploying charging infrastructures, while supporting companies and households in this transition as well as promoting employment.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Doris Birkhofer, President of Siemens France said<\/span><\/b>:<\/span> \u201cHeritage and transmission are strong values at Siemens. As we celebrate our 175th anniversary this year, we are proud that a company like Verkor, with whom we share these values as well as the spirit of innovation and the development of cutting-edge skills for an intelligent and efficient industry, carries on the legacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Patrice Lafargue, President of GROUPE IDEC<\/span><\/b> said: <\/span>\u201cVery early on, Verkor and its board members convinced us, with their business model, of their capacity to create and federate an entire ecosystem to produce electric vehicle batteries in France. I am impressed by the trajectory\u00a0 of the company, its exceptional growth since our investment two years ago alongside other prestigious partners. GROUPE IDEC is proud to support this new champion of French industrial savoir-faire by financing the Verkor Innovation Centre in Grenoble via our affiliate GROUPE IDEC INVEST. This highly technical transaction, designed by our engineering branch, represents an exceptional opportunity to industrialise their activity on a greater scale.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Philippe Detours, Managing Partner at Demeter <\/span><\/b>said: <\/span>\u201cDemeter, via its fund for the Ecological modernisation of transportation, plays a pioneer investment role in the infrastructure dedicated to decarbonisation of the transportation system in France. Since 2017, FMET invests across the electric mobility supply chain: investing in 2500 charging stations across France, their interoperability with Gir\u00e8ve, the reuse of second-life batteries with the Renault Advance Battery Storage programme and production of high-performance batteries with Verkor, which we are very proud to support.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          Neal Froneman, CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater<\/span><\/b> said: <\/span>\u201cWe are thrilled to be part of Verkor\u2019s development and the development of the future of low-caron footprint batteries in Europe, which is complementary to our green metals strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

          This financing programme for the VIC allows Verkor to unite a full ecosystem of financial partners (investment funds, industry partners and commercial and public banks). As the construction of the VIC approaches its final stage, Verkor teams are now focused on financing the first Verkor Gigafactory with initial production capacity of 16 GWh\/year in the Port of Dunkirk. This new investment on French soil, due for approval in the first quarter of 2023, will be in the region of \u20ac1.5 billion and will create around 1,200 direct jobs. It will also contribute significantly to the fight against climate change by bringing low-carbon, high-performance batteries, to the market.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Verkor receives the support of the European Investment Bank, securing the financing of its innovation centre in Grenoble, which is coming to completion. This latest mechanism mobilises Verkor\u2019s solid financial ecosystem of industrial partners in the battery sector, commercial banks, investment funds, and public banks.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Located in Grenoble, the VIC is Verkor\u2019s technological and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verkor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}