🔋 Batteries · Ridgeville, South Carolina
Redwood Materials: South Carolina battery materials campus
💰 $3.5 billion (total for the campus)👷 1,500 jobs (over about 10 years)🏗️ First facility started up November 2025Recycles used lithium-ion batteries into lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper on a 600-acre Berkeley County campus.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits. Redwood Materials supplier interest form (SC Commerce) →
Source: Recycling Today, Nov 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
🚗 Automotive · Blythewood, South Carolina
Scout Motors: Blythewood plant and supplier park
💰 $2.3 billion ($2 billion plant plus a $300 million supplier park)👷 4,000 jobs (more than, plus about 1,000 at the supplier park)🏗️ Under construction; production in 2027Volkswagen's Scout brand plant for electric and range-extended SUVs and pickups.
How to get on the sub list
Built by Evans General Contractors (supplier park). Register with them as a subcontractor. SC Commerce supplier requests →
Source: WIS-TV, Sep 2025 · checked Oct 25, 2026
🏭 Manufacturing · Chester County, South Carolina
IKO: Fiberglass and glass mat plants
💰 $500 million (more than)👷 200 jobs (nearly)🏗️ Opened March 25, 2026A fiberglass plant and a 325,000-square-foot glass mat plant that supply IKO's shingle operations.
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The general contractor hasn't been announced publicly; watch local news and county permits.
Source: IKO · checked Oct 26, 2026
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