Benedikt Rothhagen is Project Manager at the Battery Production division at the VDMA. He advises the European mechanical and plant engineering industry on the transformation to battery production. In addition to preparing market and research analyses, he is also responsible for managing industry committees, supervising the VDMA Industry Guide web project, and managing trade fair participation for VDMA Battery Production. He has been dealing with the challenges of electrified mobility and the technical innovations required for this for more than 7 years.

The VDMA represents 3,600 German and European mechanical and plant engineering companies. The industry stands for innovation, export orientation and SMEs. The companies employ around 3 million people in the EU-27, more than 1.2 million of them in Germany alone. This makes mechanical and plant engineering the largest employer among the capital goods industries, both in the EU-27 and in Germany. In the European Union, it represents a turnover volume of an estimated 910 billion euros. Around 80 percent of the machinery sold in the EU comes from a manufacturing plant in the domestic market.