Japanese Enterprises Are Facing Fierce Competition From Other Countries.

According to Japanese economic news, 1991, Sony Corp The first lithium battery in the world Industrialization Since then, Japanese companies have been overwhelmingly dominant in the global lithium battery industry. In order to maintain the leading technology, Japanese companies have been producing such products domestically. Panasonic Corp is looking at the lithium battery technology of SANYO electric. In 2009, it bought huge sums of money to buy Sanyo Corporation.

However, in recent years, South Korean enterprises have been supplemented by learning technology and increasing their catching up efforts. Price offensive In addition, Japanese enterprises are facing "6 heavy hardships", and their global market share is being eaten up by Korean enterprises. Japanese companies have also seen the catching up of South Korea, China, Taiwan and Mainland China in the field of semiconductor and LCD panels that once dominated.

Because of the decline in domestic production competitiveness, many enterprises producing lithium battery materials are stepping up the establishment of new enterprises overseas. MITSUBISHI chemical said it will invest 2 billion 500 million yen (about 33 million dollars) in China to set up an annual output of 10 thousand tons of lithium-ion battery electrolyte factory, and is expected to go into operation at the end of 2012. The largest anode material manufacturer Hitachi chemical industry will also produce lithium battery negative materials in China before 2012.

Japanese enterprises are unable to continue to produce high-tech products (strategic products) only domestically and have to produce overseas. The Panasonic Corp proposed that the future is not to sell a certain product, but to take it. lithium battery The energy saving products such as solar cells, and AV products and the combination of white appliances are sold to customers. This also reflects another aspect that Japanese enterprises have not yet developed new strategic products.