Matsushita Electric Industrial and Toshiba plan to consolidate the battery industry
January 28 message, as raw materials and metals prices, the Japanese electronics manufacturer Laptop Battery Matsushita Electric Corporation and Toshiba Corporation plans to merge the two sides of the battery industry.
According to Japanese media reports, the company owns the International Electric Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. is expected to be in 2010 years ago, the global battery plant from the current 15 down to 7 or 8 in order to strengthen the price competitiveness, and to offset raw material costs have steadily increased.
Panasonic media quoted insiders as saying that Panasonic is expected to close in Tokyo suburbs of a manganese battery plant in Kanagawa Prefecture and the United States, Georgia, an alkaline battery factory, and will by the end of March before Satellite 2100 the production transferred to the other plant, but at the moment is unclear will move to where the.
Reported that Matsushita's plant for each year of about 600 million batteries manufactured after the merger of the new plant of the annual production will reach 1 billion.
Toshiba also plans in August prior to the alkaline battery factory in central Japan on the 3rd of production equipment to the price of about NT 120 million, sold to FPCBP80 Fujitsu's electronic manufacturing industry FDK.
Toshiba said that over the past three years, rising raw material prices have more than doubled the price or make its own production of batteries not cost-effective, therefore plans to switch to invest in advanced lithium batteries
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