NextStar Energy is a JV partnership between LG Energy Solution and Stellantis to open Ontario, Canada’s first EV battery plant. This venture represents the most significant automotive manufacturing investment in the province’s history and the start of the EV transformation in Ontario. The joint venture company will produce leading-edge lithium-ion battery cells and modules to meet a significant portion of Stellantis’ vehicle production requirements in North America.
Ontario’s automotive industry is ready-made for complete vertical integration and contains abundant raw materials needed to build EV batteries, including nickel, cobalt, lithium, and graphite. Ontario also houses world-class mining, chemical, and automotive companies that can form an end-to-end supply chain.
Construction of the Windsor plant started in 2022. Battery production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2024.
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Walters Field Services’ role included the installation of 3,100ust of steel, joists, and 420,000ft2 of decking in four months (100,000ft2 of the floor deck on the mezzanine level and 320,000ft2 on the roof level). Alberici & Barton-Malow joint venture acted as the Construction Manager. Walters Field Services worked alongside Hillsdale Fabricators, an Alberici company who fabricated the steel in St. Louis, Missouri, and Vulcraft supplied the joist and deck.
Walters also provided installation equipment, including the main hook crane – a 300, an 80T crawler in the laydown yard receiving steel. In addition, Walters rented an 80T rough terrain used to load shunt trucks in the laydown yard and unload and stage steel in the footprint for the main hook crane. And a 30T rough terrain erecting second pass girts and parapet steel.
