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Recently, Johnson Controls broke ground on its fully-integrated lead-acid battery recycling facility located in Florence, S.C. The plant, called the Florence Recycling Center, is slated to open sometime in 2012 and will employ an estimated 250 workers.Johnson Controls will invest more than $150 million to construct the Florence plant, which is claimed to be the first lead-acid battery recycling facility to be issued an air permit in the U.S. within the last two decades. The center will adhere to the EPA's stringent air quality standards, which call for a lead concentration of less than 0.15 per cubic meter of air.
Johnson Controls is one of the world's leading suppliers of lead-acid batteries for automotive applications. Therefore, it makes sense, both economically and environmentally, for the company to construct a recycling center that can handle the potentially dangerous materials that it can then turn around and use in the battery production process.
[Source: Johnson Controls]
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