LG Energy Solution Wroclaw
LG Energy Solution Wrocław is Europe's largest and the world's leading producer of lithium-ion batteries for the automotive industry. In Biskupice Podgórne (Kobierzyce commune) we manufacture all battery elements up to the product ready for installation in a car.
LG Energy Solution, a split-off from LG Chem, is a leading global manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, mobility, IT, and energy storage systems. With 30 years of experience in revolutionary battery technology and extensive research and development (R&D), the company is the top battery-related patent holder in the world with over 24,000 patents. Its robust global network, which spans North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, includes battery manufacturing facilities established through joint ventures with major automakers such as General Motors, Stellantis N.V. and Hyundai Motor Group. At the forefront of green business and sustainability, LG Energy Solution aims to achieve carbon neutral operations by 2050, while embodying the value of shared growth and promoting diverse and inclusive corporate culture. To learn more about LG Energy Solution’s ideas and innovations.
In 2016, in Biskupice Podgórne LG Energy Solution Wrocław was established. It is the first and the largest electric cars battery production center in Europe. Greenfield investment in Wrocław brought the implementation of the most advanced technology to Poland. LG Energy Solution Wrocław makes Poland the European leader in the industry. The plant covers an area of about 100 ha, there are tens of modern production lines here. Current capacity is 86 GWh.
LG Energy Solution Group
The history of LG Energy Solution began in 1947 with the establishment of Korean company Lucky Chemical - initially a cosmetics manufacturer. Due to its growth and continuous expansion of its business portfolio, the company has been listed on the Korean Stock Exchange since 1969.
Over the following decades, the company opened further production centres and entered new markets - including plastics market. In 1995, the company changed its name to LG Chem.
The company began researching lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries as early as 1992 and began developing them in 1996. Mass production of cylindrical Li-ion batteries began in 1999.
Our group started developing Li-Ion batteries for the automotive industry in 2000. Less than 10 years later - in the second half of 2009 - LG Chem was the first to supply HEV batteries to Hyundai Motors. In the same year, the company became the exclusive supplier to General Motors, which was planning to start mass production of the world's first electric car - Chervolet Volt.
Contracting more clients and the dynamic development of the industry required increasing the production capacity of the Group. Back in 2009, construction of a battery factory in Ochang, Korea, began, a year later in Michigan, USA, and in 2014 in Nanjing, China. In October 2016, the construction of a plant in Biskupice Podgórne near Wrocław began. In 2019, our group founded a joint venture with General Motors - Ultium Cells. Currently, the second plant producing cells for electric vehicles under this banner is being built in the United States.
USA
LG Energy Solution Michigan
Holland
Manufacturing Facility
Germany
LG Energy Solution Europe
Sulzbach
Marketing
Poland
LG Energy Solution Wrocław
Biskupice Podgórne
Manufacturing Facility
South Korea
LG Energy Solution
Seoul
Headquater
LG Energy Solution R&D Campus Daejeon
Daejeon
Centrum badawczo-rozwojowe
LG Energy Solution R&D Campus Gwacheon
Gwacheon
Centrum badawczo-rozwojowe
LG Energy Solution Ochang Complex
Ochang
Zakład produkcyjny
China
LG Energy Solution Battery
Nankin
Manufacturing Facility
Taiwan
LG Energy Solution
Taipei
Marketing
Australia
LG Energy Solution
Mulgrave
Marketing
R&D Campus Daejeon
Daejeon
Centrum badawczo-rozwojowe
R&D Campus Gwacheon
Gwacheon
Centrum badawczo-rozwojowe
Ochang Plant 1 / 2
Ochang
Zakład produkcyjny
December 2020 brought changes at Group level, resulted in the separation of the battery industry from LG Chem to the newly formed LG Energy Solution, headed by Jong-Hyeon Kim.
In July 2021, a cooperation agreement was announced with Hyundai Motor Group. Under this agreement, the two groups will jointly invest USD 1.1 billion in the construction of a plant for the production of cells that will be used in electric cars of the Hyundai and Kia brands. The new production centre will be built in Karawang, Indonesia. Production is planned to start in the first half of 2024.
In October 2021. LG Energy Solution and Stellantis concluded an agreement to establish a joint venture. Its aim will be to produce cells and modules for the North American automotive market. The parties intend to build a new factory with an annual production capacity of 40 GWh.
Batteries produced there will be delivered to Stellantis assembly plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The corporation owns automotive brands such as: Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Jeep, Maserati, Opel and Peugeot.
Currently LG Energy Solution is a global leader in supplying batteries to all market segments: from consumer products in the IT and power tool sectors, through the advanced automotive industry - supplying 13 of the world's 20 largest automotive brands - to energy storage systems (ESS).