March 13, 2025: Leoch International has won a Rmb150 million ($21 million) contract to supply its lead acid battery tech for a major data center project.
The Asia-based group revealed the deal on March 5, declining to name its customer — except to say the client is among the world’s top Fortune 500 businesses.
The client is an existing commercial partner on projects worth a total of Rmb420 million in the past three years alone, Leoch said.
Leoch is scheduled to start delivery of the batteries next month. The company did not disclose technical details but said the power density of batteries to be supplies would be “far better than that of traditional batteries”, deploying a high-current resistant design with high-power discharge performance and a products’ design life exceeding 15 years.
The latest deal has involved several rounds of rigorous product testing and audits of equipment to be supplied, which Leoch said underlined its technical strength in the field of high-end data center power solutions and acceptance of that by international customers.
Leoch has been making inroads into the data centers sector since making that market part of its growth strategy in 1999. Since then, revenue from its battery supplies to the sector have increased year by year.
The Asia-based battery giant said it has built a network of partnerships and cooperation with internet giants including JD.com, Amazon and communications majors such as China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, in addition to technology pioneers such as Dawning Digital Innovation and VNET.
Meanwhile, Leoch has built an R&D team based in Singapore focused on the systems software required for its data center business, together with battery and energy management systems also for its lithium battery business.
Excellent product performance and good brand reputation have created today’s achievements, the company said. It is also increasing its capacity to produce the products needed to keep up with the accelerating pace of industries involved in artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.
Separately, the company said on February 27 it had held a ceremony marking the first battery produced on a new ‘intelligent manufacturing production’ line at its Anhui site in China.
Production and capacity details were not disclosed. Leoch said the line had faced “operational challenges”, but work continued to expand production through the year.
Leoch chairman Dong Li told Batteries International last month of plans to spin off the firm’s Leoch Energy Inc subsidiary and list the entity separately in the US.
“We want to expand our business in the West, for sure,” he said. “We want to get good people in the marketplace and this spin-off will help us. It will make the management of our organization easier because the culture between East and West is quite different.”
He said: “Once this proposal goes through our Chinese management can focus just on China and vice versa. It benefits everyone both ways and helps the company to grow.”
