FREYR Battery Targets Strategic Coalition with Four Major Global Partners
March 28 2023 - 06:00AM
Business Wire
FREYR Battery (NYSE: FREY) (“FREYR”), a developer of clean,
next-generation battery cell production capacity, has announced
that the Company has entered into discussions on a potential
strategic coalition with Glencore Plc (LN: GLEN), Caterpillar Inc.
(NYSE: CAT), Siemens AG (GY: SIE), and Nidec Corporation (TSE:
6594) to pursue the scale up of sustainable battery solutions
across Europe, North America, and beyond.
The non-binding alliance may establish guiding principles
including:
- A shared vision of battery technology as critical to the energy
transition;
- A commitment to collectively scale up the deployment of
batteries in Europe, North America and beyond to support our
respective sustainability goals and the decarbonization of our
customers’ operations;
- Collaboration on the development of novel solutions and service
offerings suited to the low carbon energy system of tomorrow;
and
- Development of robust, sustainable, and circular supply chains
for battery materials and technology.
“We are exceedingly pleased to announce the emergence of this
new global strategic coalition with four premier global industrial
and energy companies,” commented FREYR’s Co-founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Tom Einar Jensen. “This announcement represents
an important first step for FREYR and our four potential global
partners as we launch this commercial initiative. Ultimately,
FREYR’s vision for this coalition is to accelerate the energy
transition across key sectors by scaling up clean battery
production from FREYR’s gigafactories under development, and to
incubate and develop innovative technology solutions together.”
When formally formed, the strategic coalition of partners should
facilitate exploration of mutual areas of interest along the
battery value chain. Potential arenas of commercial collaboration
include battery cell manufacturing; pack and module integration;
digital and software services; mining and refining; power market
stationary storage applications; electric transportation; and
recycling/end-of-life solutions.
Representatives from each of the four potential coalition
partners will be attending and participating in the program later
today during FREYR’s ‘Chapter One’ event inaugurating the opening
of the company’s Customer Qualification Plant in Mo I Rana, Norway.
The Chapter One event will start at 1:30 pm Central European Time
(7:30 am Eastern Daylight Time). A webcast of the prepared remarks
will be webcast simultaneously at: https://freyrchapterone.com/ on
a listen only basis.
About FREYR Battery
FREYR Battery aims to provide industrial scale clean battery
solutions to reduce global emissions. Listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, FREYR’s mission is to produce green battery cells to
accelerate the decarbonization of energy and transportation systems
globally. FREYR has commenced building the first of its planned
factories in Mo i Rana, Norway and announced potential development
of industrial scale battery cell production in Vaasa, Finland, and
the United States. FREYR intends to install 50 GWh of battery cell
capacity by 2025 and 100 GWh annual capacity by 2028 and 200 GWh of
annual capacity by 2030. To learn more about FREYR, please visit
www.freyrbattery.com
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking
Statements
All statements, other than statements of present or historical
fact included in this press release, including, without limitation,
non-binding commitment of the coalition to collectively scale up
the deployment of batteries in Europe, North America and beyond;
the coalition’s collaboration on the development of novel solutions
and service offerings; the coalition’s development of robust,
sustainable, and circular supply chains for battery materials and
technology: the realization of FREYR’s vision for this coalition to
accelerate the energy transition across key sectors by scaling up
clean battery production from FREYR’s gigafactories under
development; formal formation of the coalition to facilitate
exploration of mutual areas of interest along the battery value
chain; and potential commercial collaboration on battery cell
manufacturing, pack and module integration, digital and software
services, mining and refining, power market stationary storage
applications, electric transportation, and recycling/end-of-life
solutions are forward-looking statements.
These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside
FREYR’s control and are difficult to predict. Additional
information about factors that could materially affect FREYR is set
forth under the “Risk Factors” section in (i) FREYR’s Registration
Statement on Form S-3 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) on September 1, 2022 and (ii) FREYR's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed
with the SEC on February 27, 2023, and available on the SEC’s
website at www.sec.gov.
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Investor contact:
Jeffrey Spittel Vice President, Investor Relations
jeffrey.spittel@freyrbattery.com Tel: (+1) 281-222-0161
Media contact:
Katrin Berntsen Vice President, Communication and Public Affairs
katrin.berntsen@freyrbattery.com Tel: (+47) 9920 54 570
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