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A clean-coal technology company is expanding in Charlotte, creating 61 jobs, officials announced Friday.
CoaLogix Inc., through its subsidiary SCR-Tech LLC, plans to open a second manufacturing and research and design site on Steele Creek Road in southwest Charlotte, adding to its facility and 45 employees in western Mecklenburg County.
The company is a leading provider of a technology that reduces nitrous oxide emissions from coal-fired plants.
CoaLogix will lease the new facility, a 140,000-square-foot industrial building, in stages over the next year. The expansion will create 61 jobs, with an average salary of $49,372, plus benefits, and represent an investment of more than $12.4 million over the next five years in capital equipment, lease payments and new technologies, the company said.
The company is getting a $90,000 One North Carolina Fund grant from the state, which requires a minimum 100 percent local match.
The company is the latest in a collection of energy-related businesses to locate or expand in Charlotte over the past two years. The announcement is the latest step in Charlotte's efforts to become a major “energy cluster.”
In May, Siemens Energy Inc. said it would hire more than 200 engineers in Charlotte over the next five years. Earlier this year, a nuclear power unit of electronics giant Toshiba announced the addition of nearly 200 workers to staff a national project-management and engineering center. More than 30 new nuclear reactors are proposed nationwide, including six in the Carolinas.
