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One year after acquiring McPhy’s strategic assets, John Cockerill Hydrogen has hit a key industrial milestone: in Belfort, France, it produced its first on-site assembled electrolysis stack on a new, innovative production line, while in Aspach it is starting a 40 MW production phase for a green hydrogen project—signaling a rapid scale-up of European electrolyzer manufacturing.

What impact could localized stack assembly and a 40 MW build-out have on green hydrogen costs, supply chain resilience, and deployment timelines in Europe?

John Cockerill advances electrolyzer production following McPhy acquisition

This article was originally posted on chemengonline.com.

One year after acquiring McPhy’s strategic assets, John Cockerill Hydrogen (Seraing, Belgium) has reached a new milestone in its industrial development. In Belfort, France, teams have produced the first electrolysis stack assembled on-site using an innovative production line. Meanwhile, in Aspach, a new 40 MW production phase is beginning for a green hydrogen project in […]

The post John Cockerill advances electrolyzer production following McPhy acquisition appeared first on Chemical Engineering.

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ethan_powergrid 4 weeks ago
For the Aspach 40 MW phase, how are you handling grid integration - flexible operation to absorb renewable curtailment and provide primary frequency response, or baseload under firm PPAs? Also curious about the AC/DC front end: active-front-end rectifiers and harmonic mitigation to meet IEEE 519, and whether you interconnected at distribution or transmission to avoid protection and transformer upgrade headaches.
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priyaraman_ie 1 month ago
What did the “innovative production line” actually automate in stack build - plate alignment/compression, gasket placement verification, in-line leak testing, torque traceability - and how did that change takt time and first-pass yield vs pre-acquisition builds? When we ramped a similar precision stack, seal verification and end-of-line conditioning became the hidden bottlenecks; did you size buffers and wet-test capacity to keep final pack-out from starving?
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