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Foxconn awaits final approval to install electronic stamping, assembly, finishing in former GM Lordstown plant

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LORDSTOWN, Ohio - Foxconn EV System in Lordstown is awaiting the final approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency to obtain a revised operating permit, which will allow for the installation of an electric automobile stamping, assembly and finishing facility in the former GM Lordstown.

Part of the Title V Operating Permit applied for by the Foxconn facility in 2024 included a request to modify the facility's emission output from building 75,000 vehicles per year to 350,000 vehicles, a 366 percent increase. This plan was first announced nearly two years ago.

On Wednesday, the Ohio EPA Division of Air Pollution Control informed Foxconn that the permit had been sent to the US EPA.

If the US EPA doesn't have any objections to the permit, the final permit to begin work will be issued by no later than August 2. 

The permit will allow for the installation inside the facility of the stamping, assembly and finishing facility, in addition to the application from 2024 to install a new e-coat system, a new primer surface unit, while incorporating permit modifications of the existing emissions to the addition of manufacturing more vehicles at the location. 

The changes requested for the plant were published on March 24, soliciting public comments on the emission changes. No comments were received before the end of the comment period on May 24.

In late April, it was reported that a Taiwan news outlet said that Foxconn would be investing $26 million in the local facility.

21 News has reached out to Foxconn for comment on the EPA filing, but has not heard back as of the publishing of this story. The GM Lordstown assembly plant closed in 2019.

 


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