Forge Nano Breaks Ground on “America's Battery Gigafactory” to Strengthen U.S. Defense Supply Chains
DOE-backed facility will expand to nearly 315,000 square feet, create more than 250 jobs and scale domestic battery manufacturing capacity to up to 3 GWh annually Samsung SDI partnership brings strategic investment, manufacturing expertise and commercial support to Forge Nano's U.S. battery manufacturing platform Senator Ted Budd, Representative Deborah Ross, Morrisville Mayor TJ Cawley and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy Audrey Robertson joined Forge Nano to mark the company's next phase of U.S. manufacturing growth DENVER and MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Forge Nano, Inc., a leading U.S.-based semiconductor equipment and advanced materials company pioneering Atomic Layer Deposition (“ALD”) technology for artificial intelligence (“AI”)-era chip manufacturing and defense battery applications, which has signed an agreement to merge with Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co. (“Archimedes II”) (NASDAQ: ATII), today celebrated the groundbreaking of a major expansion of its lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina.





