Elected officials will be on hand to celebrate the ground-breaking of a new billion-dollar plant in Port Colborne.
Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, and François-Philippe Champagne, Federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada, will participate in the ceremony for Canada's first lithium-ion EV battery separator plant.
The event will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Japan's Asahi Kasei is investing $1.6 billion to build the plant on 81 hectares of land in north Port Colborne, west of Highway 140.
Premier Doug Ford was scheduled to attend the event, but his schedule was altered late today.
