Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Battery Supplier's Factory Catches Fire [VIDEO]
Samsung's big $3 billion loss caused by the exploding batteries on the current generation Galaxy Note devices, the Galaxy Note 7, was not a joke for the company. However, some critics just can't help but laugh at the latest news that has come out of South Korea. New reports have revealed that the factory that made the faulty batteries on the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had apparently caught fire.
In what seems to be an ironic turn of events, Samsung SDI's factory in Tianjin' Wuqing district in China had apparently caught on fire. According to a report from the South China Morning Post, a fire apparently broke out in the factory yesterday. A Samsung spokesperson mentioned in the report that the fire was just a "minor" one, but based on the photos in the publication, it seems like that was not the case.
The report further reveals that the fire started with some partially assembled batteries and several battery components. The city where the fire broke out even had to send a total of 19 fire engines with 110 firefighters arriving on the scene. Samsung's claim of it being a "minor fire" may have been greatly exaggerated.
Samsung previously launched a large investigation to find out the cause of their Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones spontaneously combusting. Previous reports had claimed that the cause may have been its flawed design.
As reported by Geek, tolerances with the separation sheets and battery housings were even blamed at some point. However, after Samsung assigned over 200 engineers to test out 200,000 device and an additional 30,000 batteries, the company concluded that the cause of the fire was in fact, the batteries themselves.
Despite the alarming findings, there is a positive side to the entire investigation. Samsung likely now has an idea of what the quality of their batteries must be and it will be fairly safe to assume that they will no longer tolerate any mistakes with their next smartphone offerings.
