Johnson Controls now Clarios

Word is spreading that there’s a name change for a long-standing member of the Oconee industrial community. Sources are telling 101.7/WGOG NEWS that the Johnson Controls battery plant near West Union is now known as Clarios.  Janet Hartman says the county’s Economic Alliance received notice May 1 of the name change.  She said, “They also mentioned there would be no changes to the plant, the employees, or what they do at this facility.”  The Automotive News publication is reporting that the biggest supplier of vehicle batteries believes it has more growing to do, even as the industry changes from the combustion engines that those batteries start.