With $940 million in facility-specific investment and 600 permanent operating jobs announced, this project clears both of AFT's qualifying thresholds ($100 million in facility-specific investment OR 100 permanent operating jobs). This project also meets AFT's primary-source verification and physical U.S. manufacturing-footprint requirements.
View full methodology →The battery manufacturing context.
Battery manufacturing has become one of the largest concentrations of new industrial investment in the United States. A network of cell plants is taking shape across the Midwest and Southeast, connecting automakers, battery producers, critical-material suppliers and energy-storage markets. Federal production incentives have accelerated that build-out, while the next test will be whether announced capacity converts into sustained domestic production.
At a glance
- Company
- SK Battery America / SK On
- Industry
- Battery Manufacturing
- Location
- Commerce, Georgia
- Investment
- $940.0M
- Permanent jobs announced
- 600
- Status
- Operational
- Announced
- Jun 25, 2020
- Operations began
- Date not publicly specified
- Added to tracker
- Aug 23, 2026
Official references
- Georgia additional Jackson County expansion announcement https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2020-06-25/sk-innovation-invest-another-940-million-jackson-county-expansion-create
- Georgia economic-development expansion release https://georgia.org/press-release/sk-innovation-invest-another-940-million-jackson-county-expansion-create-600-jobs
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