Galaxy Note 7 battery maker’s factory just caught fire in China

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If Samsung SDI sounds familiar, that’s because we’re talking about the Samsung affiliate who had the unfortunate mission to build what turned out to be faulty batteries for the Galaxy Note 7. Those batteries overheated and exploded, causing various fires that forced Samsung to announce a massive recall — ultimately, the phone was scraped as batteries from a second supplier kept exploding.

Samsung SDI made the news again on Wednesday when one of its plants in China caught fire. Cue all the battery jokes you can think of.

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