[Korea's financial standing hyomun newspaper reporter] SK Innovation is the electric car battery production facility, increasing more than doubled, sets out the expansion of the EV battery business key driver of business innovation structure. The rapidly growing organically pool is intended to correspond to the EV battery market.
SK Innovation said that six days and decided to invest in a battery production equipment I need five, six additional aerobic capacity at the end of last month opened the Council, embarked on full-scale production facility construction. That new battery production equipment 5, No. 6 is the total size 2GWh, SK Innovation has been expanded to more than double the existing level of production capacity at once 1.9GWh ensure the battery capacity of total 3.9GWh scale.
This is a level that can supply the battery to the electric car of the year 140 000. The production facility will go into full-scale production comes from the second half of the same year after an expansion in the second battery plant in Seosan the first half of 2018.
Battery products produced in new production equipment is supplied quantity to a number of global projects are on SK Innovation to additional orders in recent years continued. SK Innovation is a state which is all to the production over the next seven years on the basis that the operation of all equipment, including a 100% secure new equipment orders can be supplied to customers. SK Innovation has been to adhere to the new investment direction "good order and after expansion 'of the battery business strategy, this expansion will also add strategic supply requirements determined in accordance with the expansion of the new project orders.
SK Innovation is applied to the smart factory (Smart Factory) * advanced concepts to major process of a new production facility was to maximize productivity. It is ▲ facility automation of the entire process from raw material to finished product inspection and packing process and ▲, such as big data base of sophisticated equipment operating model, ▲ manufacturing operations related to the central control system is applied for.
Not only is it applied to both the facility design and operational skills and know-how accumulated for many years going to significantly improve space utilization and production efficiency. Equip the new facilities are more than three times compared to the first agreement Seosan factory occupies the same area existing plant capacity.
SK Innovation official said that "This investment decisions were strongly in practice the business structure, innovative electric vehicle growth projects strengthen the battery business center and through it," he said "out continuously dig into the major project of global markets raised the size of the business in that sense is greater, "he said.
Joon SK Innovation's Executive Vice President is "SK Innovation's battery business excellence and stable supply capacity has continued to grow annually based on trust among global automakers for" and "to strengthen domestic and international electric vehicle battery market, the future global Top 3 Battery It said it will become the enterprise. "
Meanwhile, SK Innovation plans to continue to invest in strengthening the soft power for the steady growth of the electric car battery business. SK Innovation is the future strengthen policy commitment to invest in human resources, including recruitment and training to expand the research and development of technology to secure global level, and enhance human capabilities.
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