Celgard adding 250 jobs in Concord: "(By Celeste Smith, cesmith@charlotteobserver.com) A battery-parts maker celebrated by the Obama administration for its green energy technology debuted its new Concord plant on Monday and announced it was adding 250 more jobs to Cabarrus County.
Celgard, a leading supplier of a component in lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles, will add the manufacturing and engineering jobs over the next two years to its new 150,000 square-foot plant at the International Business Park off Interstate 85."