TUCKER, GA—Briggs & Stratton Corp. plans to open a new advanced assembly plant here to meet increased demand for its Vanguard commercial battery system.
DETROIT—General Motors and LG Chem will form a joint venture company to mass-produce batteries for electric vehicles. Together, the companies will invest up to $2.3 billion in the company, which will establish an assembly plant on a greenfield site in the Lordstown area of Northeast Ohio. The project is expected to create more than 1,100 new jobs.
BENNINGTON, VT—Battery company Energizer says it is closing a manufacturing facility in Vermont at the beginning of 2021 and moving it to a plant in Portage, WI, that was previously owned by Rayovac but purchased by Energizer from Spectrum Brands early last year.
Engineers around the world are scrambling to create next-generation batteries that are energy-efficient and easy to mass produce. One promising candidate is aqueous flow battery technology being developed at the University of Colorado.
COEUR d'ALENE, ID–KORE Power, a developer of high-density, high-voltage energy storage solutions, recently announced its intention to build a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. to support global growth efforts for its Mark 1 Energy Storage System. The new facility will create 2,000 U.S.-based manufacturing jobs.
EDISON, NJ—Eos Energy Storage, a maker of non-lithium-ion grid-scale batteries, last week inked a deal with Holtec International to create a manufacturing joint venture to produce Eos’ Znyth aqueous zinc batteries. Called Hi-Power, this venture is an extension of a strategic partnership that has been in place since August 2018.
