One Circle Gigafactory

Regulated environments, compressed timelines, zero margin for error.

KIRCO MANIX recently completed the Prototype Line at ONE Circle Gigafactory for Our Next Energy (ONE), a Michigan-based battery technology company. The 659,000 SF facility is one of the largest lithium iron phosphate battery factories in the United States, focused on cell and battery manufacturing, raw material refinement, and cathode materials production.

Cells produced are fully IRA compliant, requiring careful attention to compliance standards throughout construction to ensure safe and sustainable battery chemistries for EVs and stationary storage solutions.

Retrofitting an existing 659,000 SF precast building into a highly regulated EV battery factory presented unique challenges, as the space was never designed for this purpose. KIRCO MANIX navigated tight structural constraints, strict humidity controls, and a client-requested timeline reduction from 32 to 24 weeks, managing a 7-day work week and careful labor scheduling to deliver on time and on budget.

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KIRCO assisted with site selection, master planning, design, and implementation, creating a long-term development strategy consisting of four separate facilities. An ownership structure was also established to secure additional land needed to support the full campus vision.

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Management at Yarema Die and Engineering needed additional manufacturing and office space to nurture their growth and improve their operational efficiency. Their initial strategy was to build a new facility and dispose of the existing facilities. KIRCO analyzed all of the options for providing more space and ultimately designed a strategy to add on to the existing facility as a way to reduce the costs associated with the project. One phase in particular required KIRCO MANIX to build a new manufacturing building around the existing plant, which remained operational during the entire project.

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US Farathane

KIRCO MANIX completed a 99,864-square-foot manufacturing facility expansion for US Farathane in Westland, Michigan. The project supports the growth of the leading plastics manufacturer and included related site improvements to enhance operations and meet increasing customer demand.

Selected for its track record of quality and schedule performance, KIRCO MANIX delivered the complex expansion on an accelerated timeline while maintaining the high standards required by the client.

“KIRCO MANIX has done an excellent job on this project in every regard. They have been a great partner throughout and have put us in a position to execute successfully on our commitments to our customer by having this facility completed on time and on budget. We are extremely grateful to the KIRCO MANIX team.”

— Rodney Turton, Vice President of Purchasing, US Farathane

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