On the battery front, Kemet signed on with Chinese battery energy storage manufacturer Cornex to establish a $200 million battery energy storage factory in Egypt with an annual production capacity of 5 GWh.
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The company began constructing a USD 150 million factory in Sokhna in December 2024 to produce N-type solar cells and module-cell-wafer systems, with an annual capacity of 2 GW. The 78,000-square-metre facility was supposed to start operations in September 2025.
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