Sila breaks ground on Washington facility

MOSES LAKE — Sila Nanotechnologies officially opened its Moses Lake plant Nov. 29. “This moment has been 12 years in the making,” said Gene Berdichevsky, co-founder and CEO of Sila. “And the journey to this point can be summed up, really, in two words: passion and persistence. Many startups have origin stories that began in a garage, but we were not that cool. We started out in a windowless basement lab of Georgia Tech. Back then there were only 13 of us, working shoulder to shoulder back to back literally intent on doing what we believed – what many believed — was impossible.”