Here the battery factory restarts in Skellefteå - Ida is back: "So fun"

It was in March 2025 that the struggling battery manufacturer Northvolt was forced into bankruptcy and 5,000 employees in Skellefteå, Västerås and Stockholm were affected.

Linda Hammega had worked at Northvolt since 2021 and was forced to quit. But now she has been back in the factory in Skellefteå for just over a week.

- We feel that it's a good foundation we're standing on, so it's great fun, she says.

Accelerating slowly

Lyten's purchase of the bankrupt battery company went through in February this year and since then they have started restarting manufacturing and hiring staff. But according to Matthias Arleth, CEO of Lyten Sweden, they are slowly accelerating.

- We are now making sure that one production line works. Then we copy it and can start the next one. We don't try to do too much at once, but focus, he says.

Significantly fewer employees

A total of a couple of hundred people now work at the factory in Skellefteå, compared to around 4,000 when Northvolt was at its biggest. Mattias Arleth believes they will have a thousand employees in a couple of years.

- I am absolutely sure of that. In just a few months, we will have 600 employees. But it all depends on what the demand looks like, he says.