CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- The main plant of SK (one of the Fortune 500) lithium battery project phase I engineering was completed and is now under equipment installation and debugging, to be put into trial production at the end of 2013, according to Administrative Committee of Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing on July 30, 2013.

The project is located in Longxing Industrial Park of Liangjiang New Area, covering 100 mu, invested with 640 million yuan, and will be capable to annually produce 9,600 tons of battery anode materials. By June 2013, it had completed 184 million yuan investment. And for the time being, the main plant and the road leading to the plant have been basically constructed.

Most of the equipments needed have been transported from South Korea to Liangjiang New Area and are consecutively installed in the plant for debugging, and the process will last until the fourth quarter of 2013.

The lithium battery products will mainly meet the domestic needs, especially such coastal markets in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong. (Translated by Chen Siyan, Fathom Language Limited)