Bankrupt Northvolt Seeks Investors’ Nod to Keep Making Batteries

An anode oven at the Northvolt plant in Skelleftea, Sweden.

Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg
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Northvolt AB is asking for shareholder approval to keep building battery cells while the bankrupt electric-vehicle supplier seeks the new funding needed to emerge from Chapter 11 protection.

The extraordinary general meeting scheduled for Wednesday at Northvolt’s Stockholm headquarters is billed as a “procedural step” by the company. The gathering, announcedBloomberg Terminal in December, is required when equity falls below one-half of registered share capital, spokesman Martin Hofelmann said in an email.