Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc., a provider of safe, scalable, efficient, and sustainable zinc-based energy storage systems, announced Wednesday that it would be expanding its manufacturing facility in Turtle Creek, Pa.
The expansion will more than triple output to 800 MWh and meet production demands for its Znyth aqueous zinc batteries.
The state-of-the-art facilities, known as Keystone Commons, will provide more than 46,000 square feet of additional space and give Eos the ability to create more than 125 jobs. The company said manufacturing equipment and machinery is expected to arrive in the coming month and that the site could be operational as early as September.
“The Turtle Creek expansion marks an exciting milestone in our journey to build a world-class organization that our employees, customers, and shareholders can be proud of,” said Joe Mastrangelo, Chief Executive Officer of Eos. “We’re bringing quality green jobs to the region and building a renewable energy hub in the middle of coal country.”
Currently, the workforce at the facility is about 40 percent minority and 15 percent veterans. The company expects that the new jobs will further increase diversity at the plant. Eos said it has built a strong internal development program that allows employees to move from entry-level positions to skilled manufacturing and supervisor roles. The company said it is collaborating with local institutions Triangle Tech, Rosedale Technical College, and the Community College of Allegheny County to hire candidates qualified for the positions.
Eos will rent the space for five years from the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC) of Southwestern Pennsylvania – an economic development non-profit that supports growth and job creation through real estate development projects.
“There’s a growing clean energy cluster in Pittsburgh,” RDIC President Donald F. Smith, Jr. said, “and innovative companies like Eos are advancing the world towards the more efficient, more sustainable future we need. Their continued growth is the latest example of how the Pittsburgh region is becoming home to many of the industries that are going to power our economy in the future.”