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Louisiana town now part of Elon Musk's supply chain
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:57 am
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:57 am
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BATON ROUGE, La. - A nondescript metal building surrounded by farm fields just south of Vidalia might seem like an unlikely spot for an important nexus of the electric car industry.
But that's what it's poised to become. Inside the building, Australia-based mining company Syrah Technologies has processed the mineral graphite under a pilot program since 2018. Graphite is a key component in lithium ion batteries.
With the help of a $107 million federal loan announced last month, Syrah plans to more than quadruple the plant's footprint. That will mean adding a projected 36 jobs as part of a project to create the first commercial-scale graphite processor in the United States that produces Active Anode Material, which is used in the batteries that power electric cars.
It will give the company — which has already inked a deal to supply Elon Musk's Tesla from the plant — a U.S. foothold in the booming electric vehicle supply chain. And it signals how state officials are viewing the global energy transition towards more renewable energy as an opportunity for Louisiana's rural areas.
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This post was edited on 5/17/22 at 9:03 am
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:59 am to John88
How long you Louisiana baws think it will be before your government runs the company out of the state?
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:59 am to John88
Germans for like the 8th time
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:03 am to Centinel
They’ll be gone as soon as the try to expand and the crooks demand they’re cut
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:05 am to John88
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A nondescript metal building surrounded by farm fields just south of Vidalia
Just south of Vidalia is the MS river. If you continue south, you are in MS. Does this plant exist, or is it
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:07 am to Hangit
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Just south of Vidalia is the MS river. If you continue south, you are in MS. Does this plant exist, or is it
uhhh the river is east of Vidalia and I drive by the plant everyday
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:09 am to John88
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$107 million
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adding a projected 36 jobs
At first, I thought it was a grant and at almost $3mm a job it would have been better to put $1.5 million into an annuity for each "job" and pay the people to stay away.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:11 am to Park duck
Didn’t that use to be a fruit of the loom factory?
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:15 am to John88
It's DOE funded so a lot of the big normal construction companies here won't be interested because of the Kevin Bacon act.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:30 am to BregmansWheelbarrow
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fruit of the loom factory
Edit: Google Maps shows the Syrah Technologies plant a few miles southwest of the Vidalia Mills/Fruit of the Loom plant.
This post was edited on 5/17/22 at 9:37 am
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:36 am to Park duck
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uhhh the river is east of Vidalia and I drive by the plant everyday
Uhhh the river is east and south of Vidalia.
I have addedd a link to google maps. North is at the top.
Vidalia LA Google map
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:40 am to BregmansWheelbarrow
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Didn’t that use to be a fruit of the loom factory?
Remember the obe in Port Barre, does anyone remember how many there were before moving to Mexico?
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