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EcoPro highlighted its strong partnership with Sony Corporation and Murata Manufacturing Co. by announcing they have been working together for 10 years already. The South Korean company specializing in the production of eco-friendly core materials and parts said on Wednesday, Aug. 30, that it recently celebrated its 10th anniversary of cooperation.
EcoPro shared that it has been continuously supplying battery materials to Sony. The very first product it delivered to the Japanese electronics and technology firm was high-nickel cathode materials, and this was in 2013.
This was also the first time that EcoPro and Sony have agreed to a business collaboration. The partners have kept their business ties going since then. Even after Murata took over the latter’s battery unit three years later, they maintained the partnership, and now it is boasting about their decade-old solid relationship.
Murata Manufacturing acquired Sony Group's battery business in 2016, but their agreement excludes business operations related to consumer sales of Sony-branded USB batteries, coin batteries, alkaline batteries, and mobile projectors.
In any case, The Korea Herald reported that every year, EcoPro has been delivering thousands of tons of NCA (nickel, cobalt, and aluminum) cathode materials to the company. These are mostly used for batteries installed in Murata’s electronic devices, electric bikes, and wireless vacuums.
“It was an unprecedented case of a small Korean firm like us to have supplied battery materials to Sony, the world-class battery cell maker who first commercialized lithium-ion batteries in 1993,” EcoPro shared. “It is also memorable for Korean and Japanese companies to have maintained a partnership for up to 10 years.”
"By upping our technology to satisfy Sony and its strict quality standards, EcoPro now plays a key role in Korea's battery ecosystem by gaining many global companies as clients, including Samsung SDI and SK On," Korea Joongang Daily further quoted the company as saying.
Photo by: EcoPro Website
