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“The biggest surprise to me is the amount of people I see jogging or walking or going to the store by walking, even when it’s cold. It doesn’t change from summer to winter,” he says. “You have people who are eighty years old still out doing their normal walk.”
He’s one of dozens of key employees that have been attracted by the potential of green battery company Northvolt, one of Europe’s most well-funded private companies, to relocate to a former mining town more than 750km from the cosmopolitan luxuries of Stockholm.
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On top of the 2,500 employees it has now, another 3,000 will be needed for a new gigafactory and R&D centre in Gothenburg, in southern Sweden, being built alongside Volvo. The company is hiring up to 150 people a month from...
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But Skellefteå, the city Gorelczenko moved from the US for and where 500 employees work at the factory, gets most of the PR. Traditionally a mining town, the Arctic Circle is barely 200km away.
Northvolt is by no means the largest employer in town. That crown still goes to Boliden Mining, w...
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With a growing number of people wanting to work at a company with a mission, companies like Northvolt have the upper hand. According to a
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Apart from the 38-person recruitment team at Northvolt scanning the world for talent, the company also benefits from the networks of its employees. Hence a mini-Tesla alumni network of about 40 people that has emerged.
“... Northvolt has to be that same piece of doing something new from scr...
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