6 October 2016
DETAILS
LG Chem Poland Automotive Battery Plant Groundbreaking Ceremony
LG Chem announced today that it would start
construction of an Electric Vehicle (EV) battery plant
in Wrocław, Poland.
LG Chem will build an EV battery plant
inside the LG cluster
located in Kobierzyce Commune
near Wroclaw in southwestern Poland.
The plant has a size of 41,300 ㎡
and aims to start production in the 2nd half of 2017.
LG Chem will invest approximately 400 billion KRW
in the plant by the end of 2018.
When the investment is complete, the plant
will have the production capacity that can provide
more than 100,000 batteries per year
for pure high-performance EVs
that can run up to 320 km once charged.
The plant is the first large-scale lithium-ion battery plant
for automotive application in Europe.
To respond to the requests of local customers quickly,
the company will build
a fully integrated production system
that produces all battery components
from electrodes to cells, modules,
and packs for the first time in Europe.
By building an EV battery plant in Poland,
LG Chem can reduce logistics cost, supply products
to carmakers in a timely manner, and
enhance strategic partnership with local clients.
Once the Poland plant is built, LG Chem
will have established a global production system of
four internationally located plants,
which are the largest in the industry.
The production system will be composed of
* the Ochang plant in South Korea,
* Holland plant in the United States,
* Nanjing plant in China,
* and Wroclaw plant in Poland,
securing the production capacity of more than
280,000 batteries for pure high-performance EVs.
LG Chem is the only company in the world
that has established production plants
in the United States, China, and Europe,
which occupy about 90% of the global pure EV market,
establishing a foothold
to become a global market leader.
* The plants in the United States, China, and Poland
will supply products to the local market
* while the Ochang plant in South Korea
will supply products to Korean automobile manufacturers
and at the same time controlling
the overall supply need by global customers.
UB Lee,
the President of Energy Solution Company,
LG Chem
“We will turn the Poland EV battery plant
into a mecca of battery production
for electric vehicles around the world,”
“As LG Chem's Poland EV battery plant
is the first large-scale automotive
lithium battery production plant in Europe,
it will play the role of vitalizing
the electric vehicle industry across the whole Europe.
We will put all our efforts into making
the plant into a main production hub for EV batteries.”
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