On 21 October 2026, Korean trade press reported two new equipment orders for the third LFP line for energy storage at Samsung SDI's joint-venture plant in Indiana. In the same plant, the CT inspection order for that line came in 10.3 % below the first line's order, while the assembly equipment order that covers stacking came in 20.9 % above the second line's. When the cell grows from the 273 Ah class to the 300 Ah class, a step that handles one cell at a time needs about 9.0 % less equipment, which sits within 1.3 percentage points of the CT drop. Cell size does not explain the assembly increase,…