Ascend Elements is celebrating a construction milestone in Hopkinsville, as the final piece of structural steel was laid in the 315,000 square foot building.
According to a news release, the pCAM building is one of many large structures under construction on the 140-acre Apex 1 campus. pCAM is an engineered material made to precise microstructure specifications for use in electric vehicle batteries. While most of the world’s pCAM is made in China from primary metals, U.S.-based Ascend Elements is commercializing an ultra-efficient method to make sustainable pCAM from recycled lithium-ion battery materials.
Construction on the Apex-1 facility in Hopkinsville is set to continue into 2025 and once complete, the $1 billion campus will produce engineered battery materials for 750,000 EVs per year.