Thursday, November 24, 2016

‘Batterijtak Samsung suffers from reputational damage after Note 7 fiasco’ – NU.nl

Anonymous employees and customers of SDI say Thursday on Reuters that the company a lot of questions about the safety of its batteries.

The company Samsung SDI is completely independent of Samsung Electronics, the maker of Samsung smartphones. SDI also sells a lot of batteries to other companies, including Apple and various car manufacturers.

Since it appeared that the battery in the Note 7 spontaneously could explode, with a huge recall as a result, SDI, about one-fifth of its market value lost.

“Since the first recall we have had many questions from clients, including Apple, about the safety of the batteries used in their products,” said an employee of SDI.

Not happy

According to the accumaker was the battery in the Galaxy Note 7 a new design. Other types of batteries for other companies were made according to the company safe.

A source who works at a customer of SDI in the business says “not happy” because of the security problem with the Note 7. According to analysts, the reputational damage particularly create difficulties for attracting new customers.

Samsung has still been no details published about the problem that led to fire in the Note 7-batteries. There is still research to be done.

By: NU.nl

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