{"id":14749,"date":"2023-03-27T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/battery-component-maker-entek-to-invest-1-5b-in-indiana-facility\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:48:41","slug":"battery-component-maker-entek-to-invest-1-5b-in-indiana-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/battery-component-maker-entek-to-invest-1-5b-in-indiana-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery component maker Entek to invest $1.5B in Indiana facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manufacturer Entek will invest $1.5 billion in a new <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/entek.com\/news\/posts\/entek-announces-location-of-first-lithium-battery-separator-plant-in-indiana-to-power-growing-domestic-electric-vehicle-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">lithium-ion battery separator plant<\/a> in Terre Haute, Indiana, the company announced Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The battery components site will span four buildings across 1.4 million square feet, making it the Oregon-based company&#8217;s largest investment to date. The manufacturing campus will produce enough separators to power 1.4 to 1.6 million EVs annually by 2027.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Entek received a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturingdive.com\/news\/biden-grant-ev-electric-vehicle-battery-supply-chain-tesla-mercedes-benz-manufacturing\/635251\/\" target=\"_blank\">$200 million grant from the Department of Energy<\/a> to help fund the project, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also set to receive up to more than $13 million in state tax incentives and grants, including for job training and smart manufacturing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Entek\u00a0is pushing to grow its production capacity across the country. Last year, the company announced plans to open a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/entek.com\/news\/posts\/entek-to-open-new-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\">manufacturing facility in Henderson, Nevada<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its Indiana site is the first phase of a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/entek.com\/news\/posts\/entek-announces-major-expansion-of-u-s-lithium-ion-battery-separator-business-to-meet-growing-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\">company-wide expansion plan<\/a> to build 1.4 billion-square-meters of annual production by 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Combined with our robust and proprietary IP and our vertically-integrated engineering and fabrication competencies, ENTEK has both the commitment and capability to supply the growing and critical US lithium-ion battery industry with US produced separators,\u201d CEO Larry Keith said in a statement announcing the corporate expansion plan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/entek-battery-lithium-facility-terre-haute-indiana\/645916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturer Entek will invest $1.5 billion in a new lithium-ion battery separator plant in Terre Haute, Indiana, the company announced &#8230; <a title=\"Battery component maker Entek to invest $1.5B in Indiana facility\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/battery-component-maker-entek-to-invest-1-5b-in-indiana-facility\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Battery component maker Entek to invest $1.5B in Indiana facility\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}