Battery manufacturer gets charged up for expansion project

Tampa-based Lithium Battery Co. seeks to grow its workforce tenfold in three years.

  • By Laura Lyon
  • | 5:00 a.m. January 22, 2025
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Nathan Staron, founder and CEO of Tampa-based Lithium Battery Company, is expanding the company beginning with a move into a 65,000 square-foot facility.
Nathan Staron, founder and CEO of Tampa-based Lithium Battery Company, is expanding the company beginning with a move into a 65,000 square-foot facility.
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Nathan Staron was paddleboarding in the Rocky Point area of Tampa Bay a decade or so ago when a serendipitous encounter put him on the unexpected trajectory of becoming the CEO of a multimillion-dollar lithium battery company.

“I was just out paddleboarding, and I always ask people what they do for a living, just spark conversation,” Staron explains. 

 

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