# SMS Group to supply logistics system for LOTTE's $238.7M aluminium foil plant in Kentucky

SMS Group will provide a logistics and storage system for LOTTE Group's $238.7 million aluminium foil plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which will produce 36,000 tonnes per year of cathode foil for EV batteries. The collaboration was announced on November 29, 2022.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2022-11-29
- Where: Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States
- Value: $238.7M
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 36,000 tonnes per year of cathode foil
- Products: cathode foil for EV batteries, logistics and storage system
- Sectors: [Steel and Metal Products](https://endata.com/sectors/steel-metal-products.md)

## Companies

- [Lotte Chemical](https://endata.com/companies/2025.md) (partner)
- [SMS group](https://endata.com/companies/2366.md) (supplier)
- [Lotte Group](https://endata.com/companies/36729.md) (customer)
- [Lotte Aluminium](https://endata.com/companies/46855.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [fastmarkets.com](https://www.fastmarkets.com/insights/global-firms-sms-lotte-cooperate-on-new-ev-focused-us-aluminium-plant/), 2022-12-02: "Cathode foil is one of the four major components of lithium-ion batteries."

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