Lithuania’s Environmental Protection Agency has approved an environmental impact assessment for a planned ammunition factory being built by the German defence group Rheinmetall and its local partners in Radviliskis district, concluding that the project will have no significant environmental impact.
The agency said Friday that the project complies with environmental, public health, cultural heritage, fire safety and civil safety requirements.
The factory is being developed by Rheinmetall Defence Lietuva, a joint venture involving Rheinmetall and state-owned investment company Epso-G Invest.
Buildings and structures will cover 3.5 hectares of the 340-hectare site, according to the agency. The planned facilities include thermal processing, artillery shell filling, assembly and packaging, component manufacturing, production and storage buildings, ammunition bunkers, an administrative building and auxiliary structures.
Mindaugas Keizeris, head of the state-owned Epso-G group, previously said that establishing the production lines was the project’s priority.
The factory is expected to produce up to 75,000 155 mm artillery shells annually.
Epso-G, through its subsidiary Epso-G Invest, holds a 48% stake in Rheinmetall Defence Lietuva. Rheinmetall owns 51%, while the remaining 1% belongs to Lithuania’s Giraitė Armament Plant.
Construction officially began in early November 2025.
Rheinmetall also plans to build a competence centre for artillery shell propellant charges in Lithuania, with an estimated value of about 400 million euros.
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