Exide Industries is a storage battery company and life insurance company in India. It manufactures automotive and industrial lead-acid batteries. It has plants in India and Sri Lanka.
in January 2013, Exide Industries acquired 100% of ING Vysya Life Insurance equity capital. In May 2014, the name of ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited was changed to Exide Life Insurance Company Limited.
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History
The Company was incorporated as Associated Battery Makers (Eastern) Ltd., on January 31, 1947 under the Companies Act, 1913 to purchase all or any of the business assets of producers, buyers and sellers and dealers and manufacturers of electrical equipment and chemicals and goods carried by Chloride Electric Storage Company (India) Ltd., in India, since 1916 with a view to establishing and executing (whether with or without modification) agreements already prepared and declared made between Chloride Electric Storage Co. (India) Ltd. in one part and company from another part. The company's name was changed to Chloride India Ltd. on August 2, 1972. The company's name was changed again to Chloride Industries Ltd. vide. Certificate of Incorporation dated October 12, 1988. The company was later changed to Exide Industries Ltd. on August 25, 1995 .
The company produces a wide range of battery storage in the world from 2.5 Ah to 20,600 Ah capacity , covering a wide spectrum of applications. The company has seven factories located across the country - two in Maharashtra, two in West Bengal - Shamnagar (parent factory) & amp; Haldia, one in Tamil Nadu Hosur, one in Haryana and two in Uttarakhand. Its predecessor company runs its operations as an import house since 1916 under the name Chloride Electric Storage Company. After that, the company started producing storage batteries in the country and has grown to become one of the largest producers and exporters of batteries in the sub-continent today. Exide was separated from its UK-based parent Chloride Group Plc. In 1989, after the latter waived its holdings to support a group of Indian shareholders.
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Research & amp; development
The R & D work is done in various aspects of lead-acid battery technology, which includes the development of new products for applications such as Automotive, Motorcycles, VRLA, Telecom, UPS, Railway, Defense, etc. Mainly to make various products internationally competitive. In addition, R & amp; D is involved in projects that embrace process technology aimed at - improving product quality & amp; consistency, production efficiency and material utilization. Furthermore, the R & amp; D includes enhancement and indigenization of materials such as metals, alloys, plastics, etc. R & amp emphasis D is on studying and improving the environmental aspects associated with the manufacturing process.
Infrastructure and laboratories
Exite R & amp; D center is also equipped with Tool-Room, CAD facilities, material testing and laboratory that has equipment to test raw materials and components used for battery manufacture. These include Optical Emission Spectrometers, Particle Size Analyzer, Porosemeter, Workstation Image Analysis, Projector Profile, Universal tensile testing machine, etc.
Functional area
R & amp personnel D works in the following functional areas:
- Battery Design & amp; Development
- Process Development
- Design Tools & amp; Development
- Alloy Development
- Development of Plastic Components
- Making Hard Rubber Components/Soft Rubber Components
- Analytics Services
- Battery & amp; Quality Assurance
- Environmental Health Monitoring
Patent
The ongoing research effort has enabled Exide to patent new process and network structures for batteries in India.
Patent Design on Automotive Battery anti-leaking || India || 2001
Main development work
Some major development work done in R & amp; D Center and at first glance are as follows:
- Automotive & amp; tractor batteries to Indian standards to fit the tropical conditions
- Japanese automotive and motorcycle range
- DIN series of automotive batteries suitable for European vehicles
- Development of submarine battery
- Development of special poly-ethylene separator types for various applications
- Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA) battery for telecommunication & amp; train applications
- Battery Power Motive for forklift & amp; golf cart
- High energy density batteries for electric vehicles
- Plug in batteries for power plants
- In addition, long-lasting and maintenance-free batteries for cars have also been developed which are currently being marketed under the brand name Exide Eternity
- Also a new heavy task, the MHD battery range has been developed and introduced for the entire commercial range of the vehicle. Batteries were also developed for the three-wheeled CNG/LPG and golf carts
- Various batteries for industrial applications include new batteries for telecommunications, solar, traction and small VRLA for UPS systems also developed
Large research projects
- Development of lead-based alloy for battery lattice
- Development of maintenance-free batteries for automotive and motorcycle applications
- Development of rechargeable type-free (VRLA) batteries
- Development of ultra-low battery/cell maintenance for solar power applications
- Development of special batteries for electric vehicle applications.
Research project at Anvil
- Development of lead-free lead piezoelectric storage
- Development of super-capacitors using carbon nanotubes
- Development of Conductor polymers
- Development of solar and wind power hybrid wind power plants
- Recycling removed batteries from waste and recovery of surface metals and reuse of filling chemicals.
- Development of long-lasting batteries for powerful aerospace applications against cosmic radiation.
Milestones
1916 - Chloride Electric Storage Co. (CESCO) UK organizes trading operations in India as import houses.
1946 - The first factory established in Shamnagar, West Bengal.
1947 - Entered as Associated Battery Makers (Eastern) Limited on January 31, 1947 under the Companies Act.
1947 - Incorporated Chloride International Limited (formerly Exide Product Limited)
1969 - The second factory in Chinchwad, Pune
1972 - Company name changed to Chloride India Limited
1976 - R & D Center D established in Calcutta
1981 - The third factory in Haldia, West Bengal
1988 - Company name is changed to Chloride Industries Limited
1994 - Technical collaboration with Shin Kobe Electric Machinery Co. Ltd. of Japan, a subsidiary of Hitachi Group.
1995 - Chloride Industries Limited changed its name to Exide Industries Limited
1997 - The fourth factory in Hosur, Tamil Nadu
1998 - Acquisition ind ustrial/manufacturing unit Standard Battery Ltd located in Taloja & amp; Kanjurmarg (Maharashtra), Guindy (Tamil Nadu) and planted in Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) from Cosepa Fiscal Industries Limited as survival.
1999 - Acquires a 50% stake in Caldyne Automatics Ltd 2000 - Acquires 100% stake in Chloride SE Asia Pte Ltd., Singapore and 49% stake in Battery Manufacturers Related (Ceylon) Limited, Sri Lanka.
2003 - Assign factory in Bawal, Haryana
2003 - A new joint venture in the UK, ESPEX, with 51% ownership.
2004 - Limited Battery Manufacturers (Ceylon) Limited, Sri Lanka becomes a subsidiary as a consequence of obtaining further 12.50% Share capital.
2005 - Investments in 50% ownership of ING Vysya Life Insurance Company Limited 2007 - Caldyne Automatics Ltd to 100% of subsidiaries as a consequence to obtain balance 49 % shareholding.
2007 - Investment with 26% ownership of shares at CEIL Motive Power Pty Ltd. A Joint Venture in Australia.
2007 - Acquired 100% interest in Tandon Metals Ltd.
2008 - Acquired a 51% stake in Lead Age Alloys India Ltd.
2009 - Divestment of share ownership in CEIL Motive Power Pty Ltd.
2012 - Acquisition of Inverter manufacturing facility at Roorkee, Uttarakhand
2012 - Technical Collaboration with East Penn Manufacturing Co., USA
2012 - Acquisition of the second Inverter manufacturing facility in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
2012 - Acquisition of a 49% equity stake in ESPEX Batteries Limited, UK.
2013 - The acquisition of 26% of ING Vysya Life Insurance Company's shares adds a total of 100% of the shares leading to "Exide Life Insurance Company".
Brand Exit
- CHLORIDE
- SF SONIC
- JUPITER
- CONREX
- DYNEX
- CHAMPION
- LITTLE CHAMP
- BOSS
Hart
- DYNEX
RsIB BATTER RsBOSS RsMREAD RsXP RsT25
Subsidiaries
Manufacturers Related Batteries (Ceylon) Limited ("ABML")
Espex Batteries Limited ("ESPEX")
Chloride S E Asia Pte Limited ("CBSEA") Battery Chloride Alloys India Limited (Leadage) | Chloride Metals Limited ("TML")
Caldyne Automatics Limited ("Caldyne")
Chloride International Limited ("CIL") Dynex hart
References
- http://www.exideindustries.com/eil/company/company.htm
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