Murata took over SONY lithium battery business transfer formalities completed in July
Publish：Sino Energy Corporation Time：2017-03-14
[lithium engineering comprehensive report]
In February 15th, SONY Group officially announced its battery business to 17 billion 500 million yen (about 1 billion 100 million yuan) price to Murata, it is expected that all procedures will be completed in early July.
The sale of the business including battery, energy equipment owned by SONY (Sony Energy Devices) lithium ion polymer battery and lithium ion battery, and its manufacturing operations in Singapore and Chinese production business, but does not include the Sony USB power supply, battery business operations brand alkaline batteries, button batteries in the retail market.
It is reported that SONY in 1992 because the first successful development of commercial lithium-ion battery is known as "the father of lithium battery, but because the later battery industry increasingly fierce competition, SONY is also more and more can not find sustainable profit point.
While Murata, it is a professional manufacturer of electronic components, its main products of ceramic capacitors, the first in the world. In order to implement the strategy of the "mid 2018" in the list of business goals, Murata is committed to strengthen its competitiveness in the communications market, and plans to create new business models and customer value in the interest of cars, healthcare and energy market. In view of these circumstances, Murata made the value of SONY‘s global battery business technical strength, international market knowledge and experience.
After the completion of the transfer, Murata plans to make the global battery business as the core of its energy business operations, in order to further achieve its business growth and expansion. According to Samsung queen news media Sammobile news, Samsung Electronics will be included in the Murata Galaxy S8 battery supplier list, SDI cell proportion and Murata supply batteries and Samsung‘s own reached 2:8.
