On July 19th, the groundbreaking ceremony of SEMCORP Yuxi’s 1.6 billion square meters separator project was held. Zhou Yong, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Yuxi Municipal Party Committee, Deng Hao, Member of the Standing Committee of Municipal Committee and Secretary of Hongta District Committee, Yunnan Province, Liu Gang, Deputy Mayor, and other leaders, as well as Li Xiaoming, Chairman of SEMCORP, Li Xiaohua, Vice Chairman, Duan Linqiang, General Manager of the Film Division, attended the event.

SEMCORP Yuxi 1.6 Billion Square Meters Separator Production Project Started

Zhou Yong, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Yuxi Municipal Committee, announced the commencement of SEMCORP Yuxi 1.6 billion square meters separator project. Deng Hao, Member of the Standing Committee of Yuxi Municipal Committee and Secretary of Hongta District Party Committee, presided over the ceremony.

Speech by Li Xiaoming, Chairman of SEMCORP

In his speech, Li Xiaoming, Chairman of SEMCORP, extended a warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to the leaders and guests attending the event. SEMCORP is rooted in Yuxi and has grown in Yuxi. In SEMCORP’s business landscape in Southwest China, SEMCORP Yuxi has been a core and vital site where great efforts have been channeled to create an industry benchmark. The successful launch of the SEMCORP Yuxi project marks a new starting point for development. SEMCORP hopes to become a world-class materials researcher and manufacturer, and will strive to complete the project construction with high standards and quality. We will achieve further success and win-win results in this fertile land of Yuxi for entrepreneurship and endeavor.

Leaders and guests at the foundation-laying ceremony for SEMCORP Yuxi Separator Production Project

The event was attended by leaders from Yuxi City, Yuxi High-Tech Zone, Hongta District, and other relevant departments of the city and district, as well as Vice President Pang Qizhi, Assistant to the President Huang Jianglan, representatives from SEMCORP’s subsidiaries, and project construction units, etc.

Aerial view of SEMCORP Yuxi site

The SEMCORP Yuxi separator production project has a total investment of about 4.5 billion yuan, covers an area of about 485 acres, and plans to build 1.6 billion square meters of separator production line, which will be implemented in two phases. The first phase involves an investment of 2.4 billion yuan and an annual output of 800 million square meters of separator; the second phase will cost 2.1 billion yuan and will produce 800 million square meters of separator per year.

Since its birth in Yuxi, SEMCORP has become the world's leading supplier of separators for new energy lithium batteries, with its strategic industrial footprint that extends across the country and around the world. Today, SEMCORP remains true to its original intent, and together with Yuxi, is charting a course for growth and forging ahead to achieve its strategic goal of becoming the world's number one in production capacity, cost, efficiency, and quality.