■ Investment according to the prediction of secondary cell market growth
■ Aims at KRW 300 billion of cell foil sales by 2015
■ President Jae-seol Shim, “The first step towards becoming the world’s No. 1 cell foil manufacturer”
LS Mtron (President & CEO: Jae-seol Shim), an industrial machinery and high-tech parts specialist of LS Group, announced on the 31st that the company had set out to more than double the production capacity of cell foils, a core material for secondary cells, by investing KRW 46.2 billion and to build infrastructures necessary for becoming the world’s No. 1 in cell foil market by 2015.
With expansion of production capacity, LS Mtron will actively handle the increased demand of domestic customers, the global-standard secondary cell manufacturers, and, at the same time, will accelerate the process of securing large-scale customers abroad, such as Japan.
At present, LS Mtron, together with a Japanese company, is one of the leading companies in the global cell foil market. Recently, LS Mtron began supplying cell foils to Sanyo Electronics, the world’s No. 1 secondary cell manufacturer, and has thus been acknowledged of the stable product quality and price competitiveness also in the Japanese market. Accordingly, LS Mtron is expected to increase its market share in the Japanese market. Through continuous investment and R&D, LS Mtron will advance to the world’s No. 1 position by achieving KRW 300 billion in cell foil sales by 2015. By 2017, the company aims at KRW 1 trillion in sales in the circuit materials business.
As a core material for secondary cells, cell foil functions as an anodic current collector in the secondary cell unit that is used in electric vehicles and IT devices, such as laptop computers and mobile phones. It is a promising market where the average growth rate until 2015 is estimated to be as high as 30%. The current market scale is KRW 200 billion. It is being forecasted that the scale will increase to approximately KRW 700 billion by 2015.
President Jae-seol Shim of LS Mtron said, “A company can achieve sustainable growth only when it succeeds in prompt decision making through accurate predictions as if a hunter catching a bird.” He added, “Through this investment, we will be able to secure leadership in supply of cell foils, of which the demand will increase exponentially in the future. This is our first step towards becoming the world’s No. 1 cell foil manufacturer.”
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