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MEVA provides formwork on battery plants throughout the United States

Innovation is the key to growth. It is therefore important to adapt to changing market conditions. A perfect example is the Electronic Vehicle (EV) market, which in 2011 commanded less than 1% of all sales in the automotive industry. By 2021, the EV market had grown to 4.6% and is projected to rise to 50% of all vehicles sold in the United States by 2030.

Companies like Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, and Mercedes are now battling for the rapidly expanding market share for electric vehicles. As part of the manufacturing process for EVs, the construction of battery plants is now becoming a critical link in the supply chain.

Each battery plant included similar mass concrete foundation mat slabs, which typically exceeded 400 cubic yards of concrete in a single pour. The challenge for MEVA was how to form up massive mat slabs by reducing or eliminating the ties typically required to support the formwork. As a solution, MEVA proposed using MevaLite along with the SK150 or BB80 bracket. The SK150 allowed our contractors to pour in excess of 5 ft. of mass concrete without ties.

By removing the ties, the contractors were able to avoid the cost of lost ties and the labor required to install them into the mat slab.

We would like to thank our customers who selected MEVA to work together on the battery plants and we look forward to meeting their needs on future industrial projects.

In the last three years, MEVA has provided formwork on the following battery plants that have broken ground:

• Ultium Cell One: Lordst­own, Ohio
• Ultium Cell Two: Spring­hill, Tennessee
• Ultium Cell Three: Lansing, Michigan
• Ford Blue Oval Bosk (Blue Oval South Korea): Glendale, Kentucky – all completed by Barton Malow, located in Southfield, Michigan
• Lake Orion Battery Plant: Lake Orion, Michigan – completed by Walbridge, located in Detroit, Michigan
• Envision AESC Japanese Electric Vehicle Battery Company – completed by Jayton Construction, located in Burlison, Tennessee
• Ford Blue Oval City: Staton, Tennessee – completed by a Joint Venture with Walbridge and Fessler & Bowman, both located in Michigan

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