McCarthy Building Cos. broke ground recently on a $400-million lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery materials plant in St. Louis.
The new facility is for ICL, a specialty minerals company, which says it will be the first commercial-scale LFP battery materials manufacturing plant in the U.S. The 140,000-sq-ft plant will produce 30,000 metric tons for use in batteries that can store energy needed to for electric vehicles, charging stations or the electric grid. The new plant will be located on ICL’s existing Carondelet campus in the city and will create 800 to 900 union construction jobs. The project is moving forward quickly.