Integer Holdings Corporation announced that its Alden, N.Y., facility recently broke ground on an expansion to accommodate new equipment that will substantially increase the plant’s production capacity of rechargeable Xcellion® Lithium Ion batteries. The project kicked off in mid-December 2020 and will add both production equipment and a build-out of Integer’s existing facility. The building expansion is projected to be completed in 2021 and will be followed by the installation and qualification of new, manufacturing equipment. The Xcellion® Lithium Ion rechargeable batteries produced in Alden power implantable pulse generators (IPGs) and other medical devices for use by Integer’s cardiac & neuromodulation customers. These devices deliver therapies such as spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation and left ventricular assist device treatments, as well as power external sound processing units for cochlear applications.