South Korea’s SNT Motiv and SNT Energy, the parent companies of SNT Global, on Thursday announced that they are investing $59.4 million in a joint venture to establish their first U.S. consolidated manufacturing facility in Brusly.
The facility will create a domestic supply chain for components used by automotive, defense, energy and process industries companies across the U.S., according to Louisiana Economic Development.
SNT Motiv is active in the automotive and defense sectors, producing motors, airbag systems, suspension components and more while also supplying government agencies and defense industry partners with infantry weapons and other goods. Its customers include General Motors and Hyundai.
SNT Energy, meanwhile, manufactures a wide range of products that support energy and process industries companies, like air fin coolers, heat recovery steam generators and surface condensers. It’s already the air fin cooler supplier for Bechtel’s work on Woodside Energy’s $17.5 billion LNG project in Calcasieu Parish.
SNT is establishing the new facility in the former Trinity Marine Products building in Brusly, which has been vacant since 2015. Operations are expected to begin in the spring of 2026. The facility is expected to create 275 direct new jobs.
“We are thrilled to welcome SNT to West Baton Rouge,” West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Anna Johnson says. “An investment of this size into our community will not only support our local businesses and economies, but it also sets our region on the path to self-sufficiency.”
The state offered SNT a “competitive” incentives package to land the project, according to LED. SNT is expected to participate in Louisiana’s High Impact Jobs and Industrial Tax Exemption programs.
