LORDSTOWN — Taiwanese technology and electronics giant Foxconn will open the doors of its newly-acquired automaking factory Wednesday to host delegation of local, state and foreign business leaders and others connected to the electric-vehicle supply chain industry.

About 40 guests are expected to tour the 6.2 million-square-foot plant acquired in May, including representatives from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO); JobsOhio, the state’s private economic development corporation; and the American Institute in Taiwan, a non-governmental agency created to carry out the United States’ unofficial relations with Taiwan.

The goal, according to a Foxconn spokesman, is to “display Foxconn’s manufacturing expertise” at the plant.

The tour will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Foxconn in attendance at the Grand Resort in Howland.

Foxconn acquired the plant for $230 million in May from electric-vehicle startup Lordstown Motors Corp., which bought the factory from General Motors for $20 million in December 2019, almost a year after GM closed the facility.

Read more in tomorrow’s Vindicator.