LG Energy Solution’s Queen Creek battery plant nears completion, hiring ramps up

Article originally posted on Phoenix Business Journal on August 4, 2025

A grand opening for the battery-producing wing of LG Energy Solution Ltd.’s battery factory in Queen Creek is on the horizon, with hiring underway ahead of a 2026 production goal.

“Their manufacturing facility is about 60% complete, and so they anticipate starting production in summer of 2026,” Doreen Cott, Queen Creek’s economic development director, told the Business Journal.

A representative for LGES, one of the largest battery makers in the world, later confirmed to the Business Journal the company’s plans to launch production next year.

In 2022, the South Korean tech giant’s months-long search for a United States location to produce lithium-ion batteries eventually ended with the purchase of 650 acres of state land and plans for a $1.4 billion manufacturing plant in Queen Creek.

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