The German multinational Basf keeps it "paused", but does not give up The large electric car battery recycling plant that plans to build in Tarragona, explained BASF's general manager in Spain, Carles Navarro, on Tuesday. The plant was supposed to create 200 direct jobs and the same number of indirect jobs, with significant public aid, including €100 million from the European Union.

The multinational BASF has not had to shut down any of its plants in Spain for the moment due to the high price of energy. However, it does not rule out having to do so "if things continue to worsen", as the director of the German chemical company in the Iberian Peninsula, Carles Navarro, admitted Tuesday. The company's top executive indicated that in the last year the cost of electricity at the Tarragona plant, the company's main plant in Spain, had multiplied by 5.5.