UL's Changzhou battery lab to start in 2020

UL LLC, the Illinois-based safety certification group, will run its first global battery laboratory for power and energy storage in Changzhou, Jiangsu province, in April 2020, its top executive said.

Many opportunities come from China's fast-growing sales of new energy and high-end hybrid vehicles, on the back of government policy support for quality development, entrants with strong financial resources, and rapid development of digital and material technologies.

Keith Williams, UL's president and chief executive officer, said Changzhou is a center of excellence in China for building electric vehicles, batteries and chargers. It is therefore a natural choice of the company to locate its operations closer to its clients.