A South Korea-based technology firm is the third battery industry supplier to announce plans to set up shop in Kentucky near two major electric vehicle battery plants. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Gov. Andy Beshear said during his weekly news conference on Thursday.
Andy Games, Vice President of the Elizabethtown-Hardin County Industrial Foundation, says "it's going to be a totally different place."
A representative from Ford Motor Co. spoke to a group of Hardin County business leaders Wednesday with more details on the company's planned $5.8 billion BlueOvalSK Battery Park.
The measures seek to attract companies making a $2 billion investment in Kentucky, including at a state-owned site in Glendale, Ky., where officials failed to land a Hyundai plant in 2002.
Kruger Packaging of Canada will open a plant in Hardin County to make make packaging boxes.