Three production lines for manufacturing high-purity nickel plate, strip and wire for use in batteries and supercapacitors were opened by Hpulcas GmbH, a new producer of high-purity metals, the firm...
The bankrupt saltwater battery firm Aquion Energy was bought for $9.8 million by Juline-Titans, an investment holding company affiliated to the China Titans Energy Technology Group (pictured), on June 20,...
Aqua Metals, the lead battery recycling company, announced it had won its first patent for its AquaRefining technology on June 1. The Devices and Method for Smelterless Recycling of Lead...
India’s largest fuel retailer, the Indian Oil Corporation, is planning to develop its own batteries, the company confirmed to BESB on June 20. The firm is looking at lead-acid batteries...
Jun Furukawa and Geno Papazov were jointly given the Gaston Planté award for contributions to lead-acid battery science and technology at this year’s LABAT conference, which was held in Bulgaria last...
Reducing the levels of lead in workers’ blood was announced as a priority at a forum on June 15 by three influential players in the lead battery industry: Battery Council...
South Africa’s largest power supplier, Eskom, opened a battery-testing and demonstration facility in Rosherville, Johannesburg, in early June. Here it will compare different battery technologies with a view to installing...
The three winners this year of the ees AWARD 2017 for the most innovative concepts and solutions from the energy storage industry were Solarwatt, LG Chem and Energy Depot...
Hoppecke Industrial Batteries announced on May 26 it had recorded a 25% growth in revenues for the financial year 2016-2017. The company, the UK arm of Germany’s Hoppecke Batterien, has...
GS Yuasa, the Japanese lead-acid battery manufacturer, unveiled three new car battery ranges at the Automechanika conference in Birmingham on June 6. The first are GS SMF (sealed maintenance free)...