TOKYO (Reuters) - Asahi Kasei plans to spend about 200 billion yen ($1.3 billion) to build a battery component factory in Canada, the Nikkei newspaper said on Wednesday.
The plant is being built primarily to supply Honda (NYSE:HMC) Motor's electric vehicle production in Canada, the newspaper said.
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(This story has been refiled to fix typo to Kasei, in the headline)