A company that built saltwater-based battery systems at the former Sony Corp. plant near New Stanton will move to China, according to the organization that manages the sprawling industrial site.

Aquion Energy Inc., with headquarters in Lawrenceville, is moving operations overseas after emerging from bankruptcy in July and ending production at the 330,000-square-foot plant in East Huntingdon, said Donald Smith Jr., president of the Regional Industrial Development Corp. (RIDC) in Pittsburgh. The company has been shipping batteries already produced at the site, Smith said. But production shut down when it went bankrupt and most of the 70 workers were laid off.

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