MAN celebrates topping-out ceremony for new battery production facility in Nuremberg.

MAN Truck & Bus is making the transition to electromobility in quick succession: after a construction period of just one year, the company is today celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the new building for the large-scale production of batteries for fully electric trucks and buses at its Nuremberg site.

A few weeks after the delivery of the very first MAN eTruck to a customer, the topping-out ceremony is the next highlight for the Munich-based commercial vehicle manufacturer.

From April 2025, high-voltage batteries will be manufactured industrially in Nuremberg using state-of-the-art production methods on 17,000square metres.

This will create almost 350 new jobs for the future. MAN will be the first commercial vehicle manufacturer to start its own battery series production in Germany.

The investment volume for the new building, including investments in logistics, infrastructure, buildings and production facilities, totals around 100 million euros.

Guests at today's topping-out ceremony included the Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder, Nuremberg's Lord Mayor Marcus König, MAN Truck & Bus CEO Alexander Vlaskamp and the Chairman of the Works Council at MAN's Nuremberg site Markus Wansch.

Alexander Vlaskamp: ‘The drives of the future are being created in Nuremberg. Not only are we developing batteries here, but in a few months' time we will also be using the latest technologies to mass-produce them. The topping-out ceremony is an important milestone for our company on the road to the major transformation towards electromobility. And it is also a clear commitment by MAN to Bavaria and Germany as a business location. This was made possible by close collaboration between the company, our works council and Bavarian politicians.’