| A R O U N D T H E I N D U S T R Y
|
Tadiran to Supply Batteries for Water Meters
Tadiran Batteries Ltd. of Port Washington, New
York, has been awarded a four-year $30 million
letter of intent to supply lithium batteries to
Neptune Technology Group Inc. of Tallassee, Alabama.
Neptune is one of the world’s leading manufacturers
of automatic meter reading (AMR) devices for water
utilities, and the AMR market is growing 15% to
20% annually.
Tadiran Batteries’ PulsesPlus™ battery
is a proven system consisting of Tadiran’s
lithium thionyl chloride batteries combined with
a breakthrough technology hybrid layer capacitor
(HLC). This newly developed technology is capable
of supplying high energy density and high operating
voltage under high pulse discharge currents.
The PulsesPlus™ batteries have a very wide
operating temperature range of -40°C to +85°C
and a very low self-discharge rate (less than
0.5% per year). The battery can provide 10 to
20 years of operating life under extreme conditions
with maximum safety.
|
