LiFeBatt USA expects to begin assembling its first lithium iron phosphate battery packs by the end of the year.
Its first battery shipment from Taiwan should be in around late November or early December. LiFeBatt, located at 527 Bridge St., expects to hire two more people then, who will assemble battery packs for evaluation and testing, said Chief Operating Officer Michelle Robinson.
More volume will come by the first quarter next year and then more people will be added, she said. Currently, LiFeBatt has five employees.
For the past few months, the company has been getting work stations and offices ready.
“We are progressing,” Robinson said. “We are getting ready for the delivery of our product.”
Additionally, Robinson just returned from France, where she was invited by Toyota Tshuso’s European sales division to network with those in the industry. Toyota Tshuso Corp. is the trading company of Toyota Motor Group.
LiFeBatt is in talks with Toyota Tshuso, which sells automotive parts, to become a distributor of LiFeBatt batteries to European electric vehicle manufacturers and other companies, she said.
Carlos Walker of Blairs, who had been a process technician at Essel Propack, is helping LiFeBatt get ready. He wanted to try out a new, interesting job and explore his horizons.
He took the solar energy and battery course at Danville Community College’s Regional Center for Advanced Technology and Training and was hired about three months ago.
He’s glad LiFeBatt and other new companies are making Danville home.
“We need jobs here. You got to think about the younger people in our generation growing up,” Walker said. “… LiFeBatt, I think that’s the future, and that’s how I want everyone else to look at it, too.”
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