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JCI Plans China Plant to Make Stop-Start Batteries
Johnson Controls Inc. says it will build a $200 million factory in Shenyang, China, with capacity to make 6 million batteries most of them to power fuel-saving automatic engine stop-start systems per year.
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Johnson Controls Inc. says it will build a $200 million factory in Shenyang, China, with capacity to make 6 million batteries most of them to power fuel-saving automatic engine stop-start systems per year.
Plant construction will begin early next year. The facility is scheduled to open in 2018.
JCI began supplying imported auto batteries in China 10 years ago. The company current operates two local batterymaking facilities in Chongqing and Zhejiang Province with combined annual capacity of about 14 million batteries. JCI also operates a battery development and test center in Shanghai,
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