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Hydrogen Fuel Cell Developer HyPoint Opens UK Development and Production Site
The California-based company is investing almost $15 million in a new R&D and production facility in the Discovery Park at Sandwich, in the southeast of England.
Hydrogen fuel cell group HyPoint is opening a development and production facility in the Discovery Park at Sandwich in the UK. (
Hydrogen fuel cell group HyPoint opened a development and production facility in the Discovery Park in the UK, with CEO and co-founder Alex Ivanenko pictured here (center) with co-founder and chief engineer Rhonda Staudt (right), and mechanical engineer Gregg Walker (left). (Photo: HyPoint)

Hydrogen fuel cell specialist HyPoint this week opened a research and development facility in the UK. The California-based start-up is making an initial £11 million ($15 million) in the Discovery Park site at Sandwich in the southeast of England and intends to use it to produce fuel cells for new hydrogen-powered aircraft.

HyPoint expects to employ more than 100 people in Discovery Park by the end of 2025 and to have 100 megawatts of onsite plant capacity, rising to 1 GW by 2028. It plans to increase staffing over the next two years to more than 50 employees at a site that is already used by other high-tech companies, including pharmaceutical group Pfizer. At a media briefing on November 9, the company indicated that its investment in the site could reach $100 million by 2o28, at which point the new facility might employ around 250 people.