With an Investment of 280 Bil. Won
Samsung SDI is retooling the battery production line of its plant in Xian, China to localize production of polar plates for electric vehicle batteries.
Samsung Huanxin Power Battery (SAPB), a Samsung SDI subsidiary that operates the Xian plant, has invested 1.6 billion yuan (280 billion won) to turn its production line for 34Ah lithium-ion batteries into a 112Ah electrode production line. The company broke ground for the new plant in 2020 and will complete it by the end of 2021.
Samsung SDI is planning to localize electrode production 100 percent. Battery production processes are largely divided into three stages -- electrode manufacturing, cell fabrication, and formation and integration. The electrode manufacturing process is the process of making cathodes and anodes, one of the four elements of batteries.
SAPB is Samsung SDI’s Xian subsidiary and runs a production line for electric vehicle batteries in China. Up until 2016, its sales stayed at around 60 billion won. But it has since been on a steep growth curve, surpassing one trillion won in sales in 2019.