Ultium Cells has announced that steel construction is underway at its third battery cell manufacturing facility in the U.S.

Since May, Ultium Cells has broken ground and poured concrete footings at its new Lansing, Michigan site. Steel construction on the 2.8 million-square-foot facility will continue into the Spring of 2023. There have been reports that Ultium may build a fourth plant in Indiana.

The other U.S. Ultium Cells battery plants announced thus far include the facility in Lordstown, where production is already underway, and a plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee opening in mid-2023.

Once in operation, Ultium says the Lansing plant will create 1,700 new high-tech jobs to support the production of battery cells for GM’s Ultium Platform-based EVs, including the Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV.

Ultium says in a news release that the state-of-the-art Lansing facility will use the most advanced and sustainable battery cell manufacturing processes. The plant will be extremely flexible and able to adapt to ongoing advances in technology and materials, according to Ultium

The effort is a joint venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution that will mass-produce Ultium battery cells to advance the push for a zero-emissions, all-electric future.

 Ultium Cells will provide battery cell capacity to support GM's North American electric vehicle assembly capacity of more than 1 million units by mid-decade while supporting GM's plans to supply other automotive companies and other industries including rail, aerospace, heavy trucking, and marine customers.