# AESC Apollo's Gordon Chin Exits Agratas Board Ahead of Battery Manufacturing Rollout > Gordon Louis Chin, AESC Apollo's sole nominee on Agratas' board, stepped down as outstanding payables to the technology partner fell to Rs.5 crore. - Published: 2026-11-03T03:49:24+00:00 - Section: Leadership - Author: News Desk - URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-03/agratas-board-aesc-gordon-chin-exit - Source: [TradingView](https://www.tradingview.com/news/moodys:504414a1cd422:0-tata-agratas-sees-chinese-partner-s-board-nominee-exit-ahead-of-rollout/) ## Key takeaways - Gordon Louis Chin, AESC's general counsel, left Agratas' board less than two years after joining in December 2024. - Agratas' outstanding trade payables to AESC Apollo fell to Rs.5 crore as of March 2026 from Rs.38 crore a year earlier. - Agratas is building a 20 GWh plant in Sanand, Gujarat, and a 40 GWh facility in Somerset, UK. Gordon Louis Chin, the sole board representative of Agratas Energy Storage Solutions' Chinese-owned technology partner AESC Apollo, has stepped down from the Tata Group battery venture's board, regulatory filings show. [TradingView](https://www.tradingview.com/news/moodys:504414a1cd422:0-tata-agratas-sees-chinese-partner-s-board-nominee-exit-ahead-of-rollout/) published the report on November 3, 2026. Chin, who serves as AESC's general counsel, joined the board in December 2024 as an additional director after AESC picked up a 12% stake in [Agratas](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000pd8/agratas), and was appointed a director in July 2025. ## Chin's Exit and the AESC Stake Agratas and AESC declined to comment. "AESC does not comment on the details of commercial arrangements with individual partners. Questions about Agratas's board composition are best directed to Agratas," an AESC spokesperson told TradingView. The filings show Chin attended all four Agratas board meetings held in FY26. Agratas' FY26 filing lists six directors as of March 31: chairman N. Chandrasekaran, JLR chief executive P.B. Balaji, Tata Sons corporate affairs president Sucharita Choudhury and Chin as non-executive directors, N.V. Sivakumar as an independent director, and Thomas Flack as managing director and CEO. The two firms entered an intellectual property agreement in financial year 2026 covering nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) and lithium ferrous phosphate (LFP) battery technologies for electric vehicles. AESC, founded in Japan in 2007 as a joint venture between Nissan Motor and NEC, is now owned by China's Envision Group and headquartered in Japan. In its UK filings, AESC described the arrangement as a joint venture set up to design, develop and manufacture battery solutions. In October 2026, AESC's Douai plant in France reached 10 million cells produced, up from 1 million in December 2025, according to La Tribune. ## Agratas' Payables to AESC Apollo According to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Agratas signed a seven-year $530 million battery cell supply agreement with [Jaguar Land Rover](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00hilmj/jaguar-land-rover-automotive) in June 2026 covering NMC and LFP chemistries, expected to generate about $42 million in FY27 revenue. The same records put combined capacity across the UK and India gigafactories at 60 GWh, split between the 40 GWh Somerset plant and the 20 GWh Sanand facility. Agratas' Indian parent recognised Rs.317 crore in services received from AESC Apollo in FY25, falling to Rs.186 crore in FY26, and outstanding trade payables to AESC Apollo stood at Rs.5 crore as of March 2026, down from Rs.38 crore a year earlier. ## Earlier Steps Toward In-House Technology In August 2026, The Times of India reported that Agratas was developing its own LFP battery cell technology at a pilot production line in Sanand, Gujarat, a shift driven by China's tightening export restrictions on battery manufacturing know-how. That same month, the BBC reported that Agratas had mutually parted ways with contractor Sir Robert McAlpine on its Somerset plant and moved to a new builder, TSL, for the next phase. In July 2026, Mint reported that Agratas Ltd paid over £40 million (₹480 crore) to AESC Apollo Holding across fiscal years 2025 and 2026 as milestone-linked payments for an asset acquisition tied to the technology partnership. ## JLR Supply Contract Timing The Jaguar Land Rover contract runs seven years and starts this fiscal year, with JLR lined up as Agratas' first major customer under a Rs.5,000-crore deal between the two firms. ## Companies in this story - [Agratas company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0000pd8/agratas) · website: https://agratas.net - [Jaguar Land Rover Automotive company profile](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00hilmj/jaguar-land-rover-automotive) · website: https://www.jlr.com --- News for Agent · https://newsforagent.com/llms.txt