Samsung SDI
| Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
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| legal form | Limited Company |
| ISIN | KR7006401004 |
| founding | 1970 |
| Seat |
Yongin , South Korea
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| management | Nam Seong Cho ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 20,938 |
| sales | 7.569 trillion Won (5.4 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Batteries |
| Website | www.samsungsdi.com |
| Status: 2015 | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 삼성 SDI |
| Revised Romanization : | Samseong SDI |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Samsŏng SDI |
Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. is a South Korean manufacturer of screens , batteries and accumulators . The company was founded on February 20, 1970 as Samsung-NEC Co Ltd. founded and belongs to the Samsung Group . CEO is Nam Seong Cho.
Samsung SDI took over Cheil Industries, which also belongs to the Samsung Group, in early 2014. On the one hand, this step should generate new growth impulses. On the other hand, it is seen as preparation for the generation change of the Lee clan. According to Navigant Research, Samsung SDI is one of the three leading battery manufacturers for electric cars in terms of strategy and implementation, alongside LG Chem and Panasonic . Samsung SDI wants to expand the segment significantly and has announced corresponding investment plans. At the same time, the company wants to get out of fuel cell research.
history
1970s
In 1970, Samsung-NEC Co Ltd. was founded. founded. The company mainly produced vacuum tubes and black and white brown tubes for televisions.
1980s
In 1985 the company was renamed Samsung Electronic Tube Inc. A year later, the company developed Korea's first LCD.
1990s
In the 1990s the company expanded internationally: Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Hong Kong, China, Mexico. In 1999 it developed an industrial lithium ion battery with the highest capacity (1800 mAh). In the same year, the company was renamed Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
The letters SDI stand for: S for Samsung; D for display and digital; and I for Interface and Internet Component.
2000s
The company developed innovations in the field of display technology and battery technology.
2010 until today
- In 2012, Samsung SDI acquired all SBL shares from Bosch.
- In 2014 the merger between Samsung SDI and Cheil Industries inc. to Samsung SDI Chemicals and Electronic Materials . After the merger, the independent Samsung company Everland was renamed Cheil Industries and merged into Samsung C&T in 2015.
- In 2015, Samsung SDI acquired the battery pack business from Magna Steyr Battery Systems in Zettling near Graz in Austria. In the same year the company set up a battery factory for electric cars in Xi'an (China). The former screen factory in Göd (Hungary) is also being converted for traction batteries.
Business areas
Small lithium ion batteries
These include lithium ion batteries for laptops, tablets, smartphones, power banks, cordless electric garden tools, hand tools, vacuum cleaners, electric bicycles, e-scooters and starters in cars and motorcycles. According to the Japanese market research company B3, Samsung SDI is the world market leader in lithium-ion batteries for e-bikes with a market share of 27% . Most e-bikes are sold in China (90% world market share). Cylindrical 18650 cells (18 mm diameter, 65 mm length) are usually used in the battery packs. Samsung SDI presented lithium-ion batteries with 21700 cells at Eurobike 2015 in Friedrichshafen.
Traction batteries for cars
After the dissolution of SB LiMotive , a joint venture with Bosch , Samsung SDI produces large-format lithium-ion accumulators for traction batteries in electric cars on its own . They are used, for example, in the BMW i3 (60 and 94 Ah) and Fiat 500e . Samsung SDI already has production facilities in South Korea and China (Xi'an). The former plasma screen factory in Hungary ( Göd ) should be able to build traction batteries for up to 50,000 electric cars per year from spring 2018.
Compared to its competitor LG Chem, Samsung SDI has relatively few customers in this segment. The market share of traction batteries for motor vehicles is correspondingly. Press speculation that Samsung SDI could become the main supplier alongside Panasonic for the Tesla Model 3 proved false. Elon Musk tweeted in June 2016 that this statement was untrue but that Samsung SDI's batteries could be used for Tesla's solar storage systems.
Energy storage systems (ESS)
Samsung SDI builds ESS for different requirements. Starting with uninterruptible power supply from servers to energy storage from renewable energy for power supply in households to large ESS in container size for regulating power fluctuations in the network.
Electronic components
Samsung SDI manufactures special materials that are necessary for the production of chips, LCD, OLED and solar cells.
SDI Germany
Samsung SDI Germany was founded in 1993 after the group had taken over WF-GmbH ( factory for television electronics of the former RFT company in Berlin-Oberschöneweide ). TV screens were produced. At the end of 2005, 710 of the 800 employees at the plant were laid off immediately after the subsidies ran out. The IG Metall union accused the company in Hungary ( Göd to have built) a new plant with the profits of the Berlin plant. Offers for talks by the Berlin Senate and the federal government were rejected. The remaining 90 employees work in service and research. The remaining employees partly switched to a transfer company.
Web links
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- ↑ CEO Message
- ↑ a b Sustainability Report 2015
- ↑ Yonhap News, March 31, 2014
- ^ LG Chem, Panasonic, and Samsung SDI Score Highest in Assessment of Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturers, According to Navigant Research. Business Wire, December 3, 2015, accessed May 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Gabriel Pankow: Samsung SDI withdraws from fuel cell production. Automobil Produktion, June 9, 2016, accessed June 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Company history. Samsung SDI, accessed May 20, 2016 .
- ↑ SAMSUNG SDI to Announce Its Vision and Goals
- ↑ Business division organization. Retrieved May 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Cho Jin-young: Samsung SDI Ranks First in Global Electric Bike Battery Market. Business Korea, May 13, 2016, accessed June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ James Ayre: Electric Bike With 100-Kilometer Battery From Samsung SDI. CleanTechnica, August 31, 2015, accessed June 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Batteriezukunft.de, September 2013: Battery recycling: Batteries of the BMW i3 are supposed to relieve the load on the second-life power grid , accessed October 2, 2013
- ↑ Samsung SDI Completes EV Battery Plant Construction in Hungary. In: samsungsdi.com. May 30, 2017, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Seo Ji-eun: Tesla, Samsung SDI said close to battery deal. Korea Jungang Daily, June 8, 2016, accessed June 8, 2016 .
- ^ Gabriel Pankow: Tesla-Musk: No cooperation with Samsung SDI. Automobil Produktion, June 9, 2016, accessed June 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Press release from the Berlin Senate and IG Metall ( Memento from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), in: BerlinNews from January 24, 2006
- ↑ Die Welt : Samsung closes its picture tube factory for television sets in Berlin , September 22, 2005
- ↑ Die Welt: Social plan for employees of the Samsung plant stands , December 31, 2005