The company will pour in $128 million in development

Jan 24, 2017 14:05 GMT  ·  By

Samsung SDI, the company that gave the Galaxy Note 7 its battery, has just announced major investments to improve battery safety. The battery maker will spend no less than $128 million to make its products safe and expand infrastructure to enhance the safety of batteries.

The first step announced by Samsung SDI is the installation of an emergency situation room in South Korea and the organization of a production safety innovation task force team, which involves more than 100 executives and employees split into three divisions: development, production and technology, and quality and verification.

In addition, the South Korean company added the X-ray inspection process on all its products in the production and technology sector, so that the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco won't happen again in the future.

The Korean media reports that Samsung SDI created a new zero defect system to miss a million to one possibilities with the X-ray tests on all products, instead of existing sampling methods.

Moreover, Samsung SDI will improve its verification process on finished products in the quality and verification sector.

Sales of Samsung SDI products increased compared to the same period last year

The battery maker is said to have increased the number of samples by more than 1,000 times to millions of cells, which will be tested under harsher conditions so it can detect even the smallest defects.

Samsung SDI had issues in finding new clients after the Galaxy Note 7 case, which is why the company asked a third party to evaluate its products before and after all the improvements mentioned earlier.

Following the report made by this third party, Samsung SDI is certain that sales of its products will actually increase in Q1 2017 compared to the period before the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco.

On a positive note, a Samsung SDI official said that “Even global smartphone makers are placing more orders for polymer batteries to Samsung SDI. Especially, Samsung SDI’s batteries are highly likely to be used in Samsung Electronics’ next smartphones.”