<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1C1xzO_1H1TArU900" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1C1xzO_1H1TArU900" width="776" height="776" ></figure>We recognize the effort it takes to grow and build your community, and we want to celebrate your big and small wins. This gives us a chance to celebrate you and encourages others doing the same in their community. Click here to share your win with the SCEDA Community.Cherokee County broke ground on September 9, 2026, on a facility to manufacture rare earth magnets. USA Rare Earth, Inc. announced the approximately $1.2 billion investment in June 2026. The project is expected to create nearly 490 skilled manufacturing jobs, plus hundreds during construction, bringing new career opportunities and significant economic investment to Cherokee County and the surrounding region.USA Rare Earth considered nearly 300 potential sites nationwide before selecting Blacksburg. The region’s workforce, manufacturing heritage, and welcoming community played an important role in the company’s decision. The site also benefits from existing transportation infrastructure along the Interstate 85 corridor, an established advanced manufacturing supply chain across the Upstate, and confirmed energy delivery from Duke Energy.USA Rare Earth is building a global rare earth and permanent magnet value chain to serve advanced manufacturing for both commercial and defense technologies supporting the U.S. and its allies.The new facility, located at Bailey Park in Blacksburg, will produce neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) permanent magnets and refined rare earth metals. This South Carolina advanced manufacturing campus will perform many critical functions, including electrolysis, metallothermic reduction, strip casting, jet milling, dry pressing, sintering, heat treatment, machining, and coating.</div></body>

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We recognize the effort it takes to grow and build your community, and we want to celebrate your big and small wins. This gives us a chance to celebrate you and encourages others doing the same in their community. Click here to share your win with the SCEDA Community. Cherokee...

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CELEBRATING PROJECTS ACROSS SC – Cherokee County

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