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Mar 14, 2021
With a giant battery factory in northeast Georgia hanging in the balance of a trade dispute, South Korean company LG Energy Solution is now telling some Georgia officials that it could build its own factory in the state if rival SK Innovation can’t proceed.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports LG Energy Solution CEO Jong Hyun Kim wrote a letter to Democratic U.S. Sen Raphael Warnock on Wednesday saying LG “is prepared to do whatever we can to help the people and workers of Georgia.”
Kim also wrote that if some other entity acquires the SK plant, LG could help run the $2.6 billion electric-vehicle battery plant in Commerce, where SK plans to hire 2,600 workers.
The Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber will give its Spirit of the Valley Award to General Motors at its annual meeting Wednesday a decision upsetting a number of those who lost their jobs or relocated when the company closed its Lordstown plant.
The timing of the award is bad a little more than two years to the day, March 6, 2019 that the last Chevrolet Cruze rolled off the production line at the assembly plant.
The closure was a devastating blow to the region with about 1,500 jobs lost that day. The plant had employed about three times that amount about five years earlier.