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By Dan Spalding
News Now Warsaw
WARSAW — Slate Auto has confirmed plans to convert the old RR Donnelley and Sons facility on Old Road 30 into a factory for electric vehicles.
The company reached out to local media on Tuesday in a news release after News Now Warsaw and the Times-Union highlighted reports on Monday that the company was looking at the old printing plant in Warsaw.
The update comes one week after the electric vehicle company unveiled an innovative business model that seeks to offer significantly less expensive electric vehicles compared to what’s currently available n the US auto market.
In an email, Slate stipulated three facts:
- Slate’s factory in Warsaw is part of Slate’s commitment to reindustrialization. The brownfield site is a former catalog factory that shuttered in 2023.
- Slate plans to bring over 2,000 jobs to Warsaw. Slate will more than return the number of jobs lost when the factory was closed.
- The first Slate vehicles are expected to be produced in Warsaw in 2026.
Slate is a new American company established in 2022 that is focused on delivering radically affordable, personalizable and reliable electric vehicles.
Slate is an innovative truck platform so customizable that it can transform from a 2-seat pickup to a 5-seat SUV. Slate was founded on a disruptive business model of simplifying the manufacturing process and reindustrializing America.
RR Donnelley was a major employer for decades in Warsaw, but sold the local plant about nine years ago to LSC Communications, which then closed operations about two years ago.
Look for more details and public reaction to the announcement on Wednesday at newsnowwarsaw.com.
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