Now Northvolt’s assets are sold at online auction
Northvolt An Expansion AB was Northvolt’s subsidiary that would expand the Skellefteå factory. When the company went bankrupt in the autumn, in addition to the factory buildings, a large number of advanced battery factory equipment also owned.
Some were unpacked and mounted in those of the factory buildings that were sufficiently completed and some still packed in wooden boxes, scattered at different storage sites around Skellefteå.
All this is now to be sold To get as much money as it goes to the creditors.
– It is about huge amounts of property, probably this is one of the largest auctions ever in bankruptcy, I would think. It has been preceded by a huge preparation work and will be exciting when it now starts, says bankruptcy manager Jonas Premfors.
What it might be worth he dares not guess.
– It depends very much. What we do know is that it is property that has a purchase value in the district SEK 3 billion. But it is precisely a purchase value and it is clear that the sales value in connection with a bankruptcy is something completely different, he says.
The company that has been commissioned to implement the sales, PS Auction, has worked for months to invent, collect manuals and instructions for different machines and find an arrangement that works.
Given the scope, CEO Per Henriksson expects it to take about two years to carry out all the auctions.
– It is so extensive and we do not want to throw out too much at the same time but want to make sure that we get it in a good way so that new buyers are allowed to come afterwards, he says.
Much of the assets, Such as transformers, pumping systems and other things can be used for different types of businesses and industries. This will be auctioned off on the company’s various partner sites in Europe to avoid having to put everything on the Swedish site and risk satisfying the market.
Other more battery specific, parts of or entire production lines, will require personal meetings and another type of tender processes.
-We will have a site for the stuff where you can look at descriptions and go a 3D walk in parts of the factory and then report interest and then take it from there. Not many people in the world have the opportunity to do this so we think it provides the best conditions, says Per Henriksson.
The 3D views of the factory are also accessible to the curious public who will look into the unfinished parts of the battery factory in Skellefteå.
The one with a little less Wallet that is just looking for a souvenir or a piece of Swedish industrial history from the bankruptcy actions is late, believes Per Henriksson. Most of it with lower price tags, ranging from office chairs to conference systems and computers, was sold already last fall.
– That was the way we just had to get away at once so we have probably emptied most of it. As soon as it says Northvolt on it, there will be more interest.
How much do you think you can go to the bankruptcy estate?
– 3 billion you would have liked. But these are things without a guarantee, the wrong specifications, it should be dismantled and is not always complete. We will not come close to 3 billion, but we will work to get as much as possible, says Per Henriksson.
