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Every now and then, the universe hands you a story on a silver platter, served with a whopping huge side of situational irony. On Midweek, 19 fire engines and 110 firemen reported to a fire at Samsung SDI's Chinese manufacturing facility in Tianjin. The burn down was put out without widespread damage to the plant, which mostly remained on a normal manufacturing schedule.

Every bit for where the fire started and what caused it, in that location's some confusion in that regard. Co-ordinate to Samsung SDI spokesperson Shin Yong-doo, the fire began in a part of the facility used for waste and faulty batteries — and, of form, the Samsung SDI subsidiary in China was responsible for manufacturing many of the batteries in the Note 7 that failed under stress. There'due south no indication that it was actually Note vii batteries, specifically, that caused the failure — simply the Wuqing branch of the Tianjin fire department had a rather dissimilar caption for what had happened. Co-ordinate to them (and Reuters) the "cloth that defenseless fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products." If that's truthful, it implies some other problem at the constitute — which may exist precisely why Samsung SDI put the blame on the recycling division.

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Former Note vii owners working at the mill reported that the odor was nostalgic with a hint of cancer.

A fire at a Samsung plant actively involved in recycling Note 7 batteries isn't proficient, but it tin can be spun in an encouraging way. First, it can be argued to represent objective proof that no, these batteries were dangerous and Samsung's call up was the right thing to exercise. Perhaps more chiefly, investors don't actually care if the parts of your constitute involved in waste direction and recycling catch fire (not unless you're a recycling plant, anyway, in which case that's bad).

Acknowledging that a fire began in the surface area of the plant dedicated to producing batteries for upcoming Samsung products, on the other hand… well. There's this footling device you've probably heard of, called the Galaxy S8, and Samsung is hoping it'll prove very popular, washing out the melted-phone-and-charred-house olfactory property of the Milky way Notation 7. A fire at ane of its facilities dedicated to producing smartphone batteries in particular, at a subsidiary already blamed for the Notation seven remember is a bad fashion to reach that goal.

At that place is as yet no sign that Samsung'southward Notation 7 fiasco has hit the visitor's popularity or appeal, but that's the kind of trouble you don't keep provoking. Having screwed the pooch on the Note 7, Samsung will be dead-set on ensuring the same matter doesn't happen to the Milky way S8. One bad product is a fluke. Two are typically a sign that something is badly incorrect in your manufacturing division.