Fortu Battery Plant
Six years, a major announcement was made that a company called Fortu was building a power cell plant in Muskegon. Of course this was great news or was it?
Last week it was announced that the Fortu plant was never going to be built. http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2015/02/fortu_powercell_factory_will_n.html
I was suspicious that this facility was ever going to be built. In 2009….battery-powered automobiles were getting much attention and Muskegon was anxious for any new industry.
A little research might have found that the proposed battery was not yet fully developed.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/The-Story-Behind-Alevos-Inorganic-Lithium-Ion-Chemistry
“Technology breakthroughs in the advanced battery field are often announced with great fanfare. But often, the companies making these claims disappear without a trace.”
Now that Alevos has bought out Fortu….it remains to be seen how the battery fanfare plays out in North Carolina.