When the plastics manufacturing plant Roger Binegar had worked in for 28 years closed in 2009, it felt like manufacturing in south-western Ohio had all but been consigned to history.
Yet 14 years later, a huge new construction effort is under way a stone’s throw from his home outside Jeffersonville. The Japanese carmaker Honda and the electronics company LG are building a battery manufacturing plant slated to employ 2,000 people once it’s up and running in 2026.
