SC battery-recycling plant owner breaks ground on $3.5B Lowcountry project
January 23, 2024
By: Charleston
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Redwood Materials broke ground Jan. 23 on its $3.5 billion battery recycling site in Berkeley County with the aim of starting to reclaim materials needed to power electric vehicles before the end of the year.
The Carson City, Nev.-based company plans to eventually hire 1,500 workers at its Ridgeville campus to extract minerals needed to make new EV power packs from old batteries that have outlived their usefulness in a range of consumer products.
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