JCI opens battery plant in Chongqing
Johnson Controls Inc. opened a $154 million (960 million yuan) battery plant in the southwest China municipality of Chongqing this week.
The factory, located in Chongqing's Fuling district, can produce 6 million automotive batteries a year, the U.S. supplier said.
Johnson Controls already has a plant in Changxing in east China's Zhejiang province that can produce 8 million batteries a year.
The company also plans to build another battery plant in north China that will produce 6 million batteries a year, the company said on its Web site.
The Milwaukee-based company ranks No. 6 on the Automotive News list of the top 100 global suppliers, with worldwide sales to automakers of $22.5 billion in fiscal 2012.
Johnson Controls already has a plant in Changxing in east China's Zhejiang province that can produce 8 million batteries a year.
The company also plans to build another battery plant in north China that will produce 6 million batteries a year, the company said on its Web site.
The Milwaukee-based company ranks No. 6 on the Automotive News list of the top 100 global suppliers, with worldwide sales to automakers of $22.5 billion in fiscal 2012.
