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South Korea's largest chemicals maker LG Chemical said its largest battery Acer LCBTP03003 Battery manufacturing plant on the 3rd fire is expected to loss of about 610 million yuan, now has been in operation was halted. The company will directly face less pressure on supply of raw materials, it is estimated to ship in April of notebook batteries will be affected.

LG Chemical 4, the paper presented to the Korea Stock Exchange, said the fire battery manufacturing plant is expected to be time-consuming 2 to 3 months to resume normal operation.

As the recovery timelaptop battery for nearly one quarter is expected to supply half of the laptop battery will have a significant impact.

LG Chemical is the world's fourth largest supplier of battery cell, it is understood, LG Chemical in Korea has two battery manufacturing, including plant fire monthly production reached 13.5 million, and the other smaller factories monthly production is up to 1000 10000.

Previously, in February and in January this year, LG notebook battery occurred melting and explosion. The battery in question is from LG Chem, Ltd. of production. Followed Acer TravelMate 4500 Battery by recall of the related problems LG notebook.

Last year Japanese battery Panasonic, Sony and other production of the batteries fire, to recall, has resulted in pressure on the battery supply this year, were already very tight, good or bad performance of the battery assembly plants, almost all to keep abreast of the number of battery supply may be future, further increased the amount of remaining battery factory it difficult to purchase. Therefore, market analysts believe that if the second half of the battery core plant capacity can not Acer Aspire 1410 Battery be scheduled repair, full-year shipments may even be affected, the world will face a shortage of laptop battery status
Recently, Dell is part of the customer to reflect its notebook orders for delivery time longer than usual. Dell explained that in March this year, South Korea's LG Chemical fire, thus affecting the global supply lithium-ion batteries, resulting in a shortage of laptop batteries. The impact is global, and naturally spread to China's users, Dell updates its affected customers to apologize.


In addition to LG Chemical fires lithium battery supply, resulting in extension of Dell's shipments of orders received, the ASUS also appeared the battery shortage, directly Acer Aspire 1680 Battery affecting the company's second quarter, 40% of notebook supply schedule orders.