The battery maker recently received the green light from Pima County to move forward with its factory construction plans. phoenix
After a search across about a dozen states over the course of a year, Utah-based startup American Battery FactoryABF, which was incubated from Lion Energy in 2021, is planning to build a $1.2 billion lithium-iron phosphate battery manufacturing plant that will total 2 million square feet in the Tucson metro.
The company said it plans to have its headquarters, research and development center and initial factory module built within the next two years. The building structure will be comprised of a tension membrane structure, which ABF said has been used by Blue Origin and Tesla and is about 30% cheaper than traditional construction to build.
"We were actually encouraged to come down [to Arizona] by certain officials in Utah, and we're very happy to be here," he told the Phoenix Business Journal. "It's exactly what we want to have because our workforce will be trained in incredibly automated robotic machinery that is quite unique here in the U.S.," he said."For a school to teach equipment that will revolutionize the manufacturing process of batteries here in the U.S., is a unique opportunity for them, but mainly or us."
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