Car Battery Makers, Johnson Controls, Building A $150 Million Recycling Plant In South Carolina

Automotive parts and batteris manufacturer, Johnson Controls Inc., broke ground on a new, battery recycling plant in Florence, South Carolina, today. Local and national environmental groups there reached consensus with the company on air emissions standards in August 2010, allowing the company to embark on its plans to build a $150 million facility, taking up about 36 acres of a 270-acre property there. The permits represent the first in about twenty years given to "a new, fully integrated battery recycling facility in the United States," multiple spokespersons from Johnson Controls have noted ...