Finance Associated Press, March 6 (Reporter Zeng Chuchu).Following the construction of lithium carbonate and iron phosphate production capacity, Lopal Technology (603906., the head enterprise of lithium iron phosphate cathode materialsSH) will focus on cost reduction and lithium battery ** and cascade utilization.
Lopal Technology announced today that the company intends to take 10.1 billion yuan acquisition of Lopal International Holdings, hereinafter referred to as "Lopal International") held by Shandong Meiduo Technology *** hereinafter referred to as "Shandong Meiduo") 100% equity, because Lopal International's controlling shareholder, legal representative Shi Junfeng is also the controlling shareholder of Lopal Technology, the actual controller, the acquisition constitutes a related party transaction. In addition, after the completion of the acquisition, Lopal Technology plans to increase its capital by 50 million yuan to Shandong Meiduo.
According to the announcement, Shandong Meiduo was established in September 2022, the legal representative is Shi Junfeng, and the main business is the waste power battery of new energy vehicles and cascade utilization, that is, through a series of processes such as dismantling, leaching and refining, the waste lithium battery is finally obtained Battery-grade lithium carbonate, battery-grade nickel sulfate, battery-grade cobalt sulfate and other products, which are widely used in lithium iron phosphate and ternary cathode materials and other fields, and have high synergy with Lopal Technology's lithium battery business.
Lopal Technology said in the announcement that the acquisition of Shandong Meiduo is conducive to the implementation of the company's "vertical integration" development strategy and is conducive to reducing the company's raw material costs.
It is reported that Lopal Technology's main business is the research and development, production and sales of lithium iron phosphate cathode materials and environmental protection fine chemicals for vehicles, under the influence of the sharp decline in raw material lithium carbonate ** and the overcapacity of downstream lithium batteries, cathode material enterprises last year can be described as a series of losses, seeking cost reduction space from the raw material side or has been a common practice in the industry, Zhenhua New Materials (688707SH), Ronbay Technology (688005SH), Hunan Yuneng (301358SZ) and other leading cathode material companies are successively laying out battery business.
From the perspective of the industry, the lithium battery market is in a growth trend, the national financial research report predicts that the compound growth rate of lithium battery and production waste in the next ten years will reach 43%, and the amount of lithium battery can reach 325GWh in 2025, and the scale of the power battery market in 2025 will reach 58.8 billion yuan.
In addition, Lopal technology has been expanding for a long time in the integrated layout of reducing the cost of raw materials, including the production capacity construction of lithium carbonate and iron phosphate, and the comprehensive company disclosed on the investor interactive platform, of which the lithium carbonate processing production line has been ignited in August last year, and the company has put into operation 50,000 tons of iron phosphate in Shandong and 50,000 tons of iron phosphate in Hubei. The 50,000-ton iron phosphate project in the second phase of Shandong is also in the trial production stage, and it is expected that the company will carry out the construction of the 80,000-ton iron phosphate project in the third phase of Shandong in the first half of 2024.
The announcement also mentioned that Shandong Meiduo's net loss in 2022 and 2023 will be 6740,000 yuan, 124910,000 yuan. Lopal technology tips, Shandong Meiduo has not yet been put into production, although it has set up a corresponding technical management team, the research and development of battery-related technology, and the laboratory pilot test results are good, but in the process of transforming scientific research technology into large-scale production may still encounter a series of problems, the specific production time is still uncertain, and then affect the company's expected income.