Vincent Yang, the Taiwanese who bets 5 billion on France


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PORTRAIT. The CEO of ProLogium explains why the manufacturer of solid-state electric batteries preferred the port of Dunkirk to Germany and the Netherlands.





By Olivier Ubertalli

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Qhen we are surprised by his French first name by shaking his hand, Vincent Yang, smooth black hair and bangs in the middle of his forehead, confesses that he chose his own first name at university. “My name is Vincent because I love the painter Vincent Van Gogh. He is for me a model of a man who is as free as he is creative. The choice of another first name for everyday life is common in Taiwan. The first name on his passport is Szu-Nan.

Aged 50, Vincent Yang is the founder and CEO of the Taiwanese company ProLogium. It has just chosen the port of Dunkirk, in the North, in France, rather than a site in the United States or Germany, to invest the trifle of 5.2 billion euros in the construction of a mega electric battery factory. 5…




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