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Johnson Controls to build 4th automotive battery plant in China

Johnson Controls forms joint venture with Binzhou Bohai Piston Co., to add capacity to meet growing demand for fuel efficient technology in China. By 2020, 50 percent, or about 15 million new vehicles will be equipped with start-stop functionality in China, saving an estimated 1.2 billion liters of gasoline per year. At full capacity, the more than $200 million USD plant will employ 650 people who will manufacture both conventional flooded and absorbent glass mat (AGM) battery technologies.MILWAUKEE, June 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls is forming a joint venture with Binzhou Bohai Piston Co., Ltd., an auto parts affiliate of Beijing Automotive Industry Group Co., Ltd. (BAIC Group), to build its fourth Chinese automotive battery manufacturing plant. Aimed at...