"The expansion of our production at a new site in Poland is a decisive step with regard to developments in electromobility," emphasizes Michael Heinemann, CEO of Phoenix Contact E-Mobility. The 15,000 m² e-mobility plant was built in just five months and production of AC charging cables was able to start as early as January 2021. The e-mobility specialist is a tenant, and the production hall was built by full-service industrial real estate developer Panattoni according to the specifications of the Phoenix Contact subsidiary.

The dynamics of the electromobility market have already arrived at the new location. The start-up team has already grown to 300 employees faster than planned. They manufacture AC charging cables, infrastructure charging sockets for AC charging stations and wallboxes as well as vehicle charging sockets on eight production lines. By the end of the year, there will be ten production lines.

The number of new registrations of purely electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids is increasing significantly every year. In the first half of 2021, the proportion of newly registered electric vehicles in Europe has already more than doubled compared to the same period last year. Dominik Mazur, Plant Manager at the Rzeszów site, explains: "Each of these vehicles has an AC charging cable in the trunk. Premiums and subsidies throughout Europe are ensuring the expansion of private and public charging infrastructure. These measures are also increasing sales of AC charging cables. Thanks to its good location in the Dworzysko Science and Technology Park with its well-developed infrastructure, our plant will become an important location within the Phoenix Contact e-mobility production network." The European and American markets are to be supplied from Poland. New technologies are developed and tested at the Phoenix Contact E-Mobility headquarters in Schieder. Here, there are highly automated production facilities, pre-series, prototyping and a direct exchange between development, marketing and sales.

The new plant in Rzeszów has a total area of 15,000 m², of which 14,000 m² is production and storage space and the remaining 1,000 m² is office space.