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Gov. Kevin Stitt held a ceremonial signing on Thursday morning alongside community leaders, elected officials and company executives to announce Blue Whale Materials' commitment to establish a lithium battery recycling facility at Bartlesville Industrial Park.

Blue Whale Materials is expected to make a multi-million dollar capital investment in Oklahoma's economy, leasing two facilities within the Bartlesville Industrial Park and creating 90 new jobs. After competing with Texas for the project, Blue Whale Materials chose Oklahoma, in part, due to the financial commitment through the Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program and the SIDE Act.