SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): Battery recycling startup Redwood Materials Inc. announced plans to build its second factory in South Carolina. The state-of-the-art facility will be built on a 600-acre campus just outside of Charleston at Camp Hall in Berkeley County. The plant will see an investment of around $3.5 billion and is expected to create more than 1,500 jobs.

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The facility is located in the “Battery Belt”- a new manufacturing corridor from Michigan to Georgia where hundreds of GWh a year of battery cell production capacity will be built and start operating during the course of the current decade.

The company plans to break grounds on its new Carolina Campus in Q1 next year, with first recycling process expected to be running before end-2023. It plans to have a downstream component manufacturing, which will be gradually scaled up.

Similar to its Nevada facility, the operations of the Carolina Campus too will be 100% electric. The processes at the facility will not use any fossil fuel. The Campus will recycle used lithium-ion batteries and manufacture “components” of cathode and anodes to be used in electric car batteries.

The facility will source zero emission, clean energy to power its operations, thus contributing to significant reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.