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Chinese lead-acid battery maker Leoch International Technology (Leoch) has invested $9m in its Sri Lankan factory in order to expand in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The $9m investment is the first phase of further spending on Leoch’s Southern Bata-Ata facility. The company plans to invest $20m at a later stage. The Sri Lankan factory manufactures batteries for uninterruptible power supplies.
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The Chinese government is considering setting up a fund to subsidise lead producers using recycled lead-acid batteries.
Zhang Weiqian, analyst at research firm Antaike, said the government is likely to give the subsidies to large companies and well-equipped processors that are not running at full capacity.
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Germany’s automotive supplier Continental has launched enhanced flooded batteries (EFB) and absorbent glass mat (AGM) lead-acid batteries through its VDO brand.
The batteries are developed for vehicles with start-stop systems. The VDO battery portfolio includes nine different EFB and AGM batteries, targeted at the central European market.
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Lead-acid separator company Entek has launched the LR (low resistance) separator for lead-acid automotive batteries at the European Lead Battery Conference in Edinburgh.
The PE separator is designed for extended flooded battery applications and aims to offer high porosity and low electrical resistance. The initial product launch is for separators with 0.20 and 0.25mm backwebs.
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Grafoid acquired 75% ownership interest in US-based Braille Battery, which produces lightweight lithium-ion batteries and AGM lead-acid batteries for IndyCar, NASCAR, Formula 1 racing cars, motorcycles and batteries for the marine industry. Braille Battery’s founder Blake Fuller will remain president and chief operating officer.
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India's Amara Raja Batteries (Amara) is to expand into the solar and motive power markets and plans to open a second manufacturing plant in Chitoor, India.
Amara aims to target the solar storage market with its lead-acid batteries. Its motive power batteries are aimed to be supplied to a wide variety of electric powered transportation systems, including the railway market.
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Exide Technologies has been hit with a grand jury subpoena in connection with a criminal investigation involving its Vernon lead-recycling plant in California.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Exide revealed the August 8 subpoena seeks "documents relating to materials transportation and air emissions." Exide itself and "certain unidentified individuals" are targets of the investigation" being conducted by the Justice Department in the Central District of California.
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Hydrogen fuel cell developer Altergy Systems has settled a dispute with lead-acid battery maker Enersys, which resolves the outstanding legal challenges tied to an arbitrational panel award issued in May.
On May 13, 2014, the American Arbitration Association issued a $58m award in Altergy’s favour over claims Enersys had tortiously interfered with the sales of its products.
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Princeton Power Systems has celebrated the two-year operation of its commercial scale microgrid system on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, US.
The New Jersey energy storage company installed 400kW of solar panels on the roof of the former San Francisco prison on the island and integrated the PV system with a 400kW lead-acid battery bank, two diesel generators, controllers and inverters. The system meets 60% of the island’s electricity demand.
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When it comes to batteries behaving badly, its usually lithium-ion that gets the bad press. But a small event in a small American town shows that lead-acid can be just as dangerous.
18 workers at electronics manufacturer Cascade Systems in Hillsboro, Oregon, US, needed medical assistance after inhaling toxic fumes of overheated lead-acid batteries.
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