PHOENIX, AZ — EaglePicher Horizon Batteries, LLC, a joint venture between EaglePicher Inc. and Horizon Batteries, Inc., has been presented with the prestigious 2004 Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award in the world motive lead acid (MLA) battery market. The award was presented to the company for its sealed value regulated lead acid (VRLA) battery (12D2000).
The EaglePicher Horizon 12D2000 is a lead acid battery product based on woven grid technology that can significantly reduce the internal impedance of the battery, thereby providing greater efficiency, fast recharge and higher cold cranking power.
“The EaglePicher Horizon 12D2000 sealed lead acid battery is a unique product offering in a mature industry with impressive features that offer optimum solutions,” said Frost & Sullivan research analyst Hariharan Balasubramanian. “The 12D2000, with its woven grid technology, offers a solution that is proven with respect to the chemical composition, offers more features than conventional lead acid batteries and also poses competition to alternative chemistries such as lithium ion (Li-Ion), lithium ion polymer (Li-Ion Polymer), nickel metal hydride (NiMH), and others. The combination of these features and benefits the 12D2000 product offers makes it a worthy recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award in the MLA battery market for 2004.”
The Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award is presented to the company that best demonstrates the ability to develop and/or advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products. The award recognizes a company’s successful adoption of new or existing technology that has become a part of its well-designed product family. Such innovation is expected to significantly contribute to the industry in terms of product performance and degree/rate of technical change.
Steven Westfall, president of Eagle Picher Horizon, credits the award to the company’s technological innovation as well as its proven development and manufacturing capabilities. “We are pleased to have received the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award,” he said. “The 12D2000 offers important advantages in terms of cost savings due to our advanced manufacturing techniques as well as the superior technical performance that the battery offers.”
More information about EaglePicher Horizon Batteries can be found at: www.ephorizon.com.
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