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John Cockerill Expands European Electrolyzer Manufacturing Capacity
John Cockerill has commissioned its first French-manufactured electrolyzer stack at Belfort following its 2025 acquisition of McPhy, and is scaling production across Belgium, France, and Germany to supply 40+ MW of capacity for green hydrogen projects in Belgium and the Netherlands.
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The Wire takeaway
John Cockerill now controls the only integrated electrolyzer manufacturing network in Europe with in-house stack design and three production sites. If you make compressors, valves, power electronics, or cooling systems for hydrogen, you have one buyer in Europe instead of three competing suppliers.
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Topics: Climate Tech · electrolyzer-manufacturing · hydrogen-infrastructure · europe-decarbonisation · supply-chain-consolidation