The former LSC Communications plant on Old 30 West in Warsaw looks like it may be the future home of a production site for Slate Auto’s EV truck.
While there’s been hints of a company interested in the site for months, little has been confirmed publicly.
On Friday, however, TechCrunch.com published an online story that Slate Auto was eyeing the former printing plant in Warsaw for its EV truck production. The facility could employ upward of 2,000 people.
According to the tech blog, Slate Auto is expected to lease the 1.4 million-square-foot facility for an undisclosed sum. Slate did not respond to TechCrunch.com for a comment for the story, and Peggy Friday, Kosciusko County Economic Development Corporation CEO, told them in an email she was under a strict non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with the project.
During an event Thursday, Slate Auto showed an aerial photo of the manufacturing site, though it did not say where it was located. Slate Auto plans to make electric vehicles that will cost under $20,000 after the federal tax credit.
More information will be released as it becomes available.
More information on Slate Auto and its vehicles can be found at https://www.slate.auto/en
In June 2023, LSC Communications announced it was closing its doors at 2801 W. Old 30, Warsaw, by September and the closing would impact over 500 workers.
LSC Communications began in 2016 when R.R. Donnelley, the commercial print and logistics company, decided to divide its services into three separate companies, according to a past LSC website. In 2020, LSC was acquired by Atlas Holdings. LSC had two plants in Lancaster, Pa., which closed earlier in 2023.