Gordon Joins RBC

John Gordon has joined RBC Technologies as director of manufacturing and technology.

He has over 25 years of experience in equipment design for manufacturing, most recently as senior engineer at Solicore Inc. of Lakeland, Florida. From 1996 to 2001, he was engineering manager for Moltech Corp. of Tucson, Arizona, where he designed and installed the company’s pilot line for the manufacture of prismatic batteries.

Gordon’s career in battery manufacturing began with Valence Technology in Northern Ireland where he managed the installation and commissioning of their manufacturing lines. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Ulster.

Gordon will lead the installation of a small-scale pilot line at RBC’s College Station, Texas, facility to demonstrate the capability to produce HRB AA cells at rates of 600 per minute. The line will be operational by December.

The two to three times advantage of HRB in high power devices has drawn the interest of a number of potential licensees who have deemed it a viable approach to desired performance characteristics. An aggressive technical development program continues at RBC with thousands of prototype HRB AA cells made and tested to date. RBC is presenting the technology to select OEMs for applications testing, and has extended it to include prismatic and rechargeable alkaline formats.

For details, visit www.rbctx.com.