East Penn Manufacturing Co. is planning to expand its battery-manufacturing site at Lyon Station, Pennsylvania, with a new US$80 million manufacturing plant.
The proposed plant would create more than 300 jobs when functioning at full capacity, according to Graham G. Anderson, Vice President of facilities, engineering and maintenance at East Penn.
The 564 000-square-foot, two-story plant is expected to open in 2015 to produce industrial and automotive batteries. The current facilities for industrial and automotive batteries are nearing capacity.
Daniel Langdon, President of East Penn, said, “It will be a multifaceted facility and flexible enough to be able to support growth in all segments of lead-acid batteries.”
“We are going to call it a multipurpose plant,” Anderson said. “We’ll be making automotive and industrial lead-acid batteries. It’s going to be a complete battery-manufacturing facility with all the required equipment to build a battery.”
