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| All smiles and ready to sell Ulbrich’s specialty wire are sales engineers Ron Muenchow and John Martin. |
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| Welcoming a visitor to Pred Materials’ booth is company president Steve Pred, who came a long way from Manhattan to Long Beach. |
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| Lithium power systems is the favorite subject discussed by EnerDel’s Hiroyuki Yumoto and company CEO Ulrik Grape. |
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| Neighbors across the aisle from ABT’s booth are Texmac’s Jun Adachi, Sonny Hayashi, Kai Ochi and Yashi Osaka. |
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| Two who came from Alabama are Innovative Machine’s veep Dan Neilsen and his father Don who’s been with the company since 1959. |
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| Since automotive is this conference’s theme, hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in HEVs were displayed for all to investigate. |
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| Two Ph.D.’s from TIAX take a break after breakfast: Dr. Suresh Sriramulu, electrochemist, and Dr. Brian Barnett, vice president. |
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| A throng hiked two blocks to the mid-week banquet at the Renaissance Hotel since the Hyatt’s banquet room was a lecture hall. |
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| The largest exhibit by far was by A123 Systems whose automotive Li-ion batteries will be used by BAE in hybrid buses in 2008. |
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| Exhibit hall workhorses from Arbin Instruments in College Station, Texas, are Will Lovell and Antony Parulian. |
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| All smiles are Asahi Kasei’s Dr. Toshiyuki Furuyama, Takeshi Onizawa, Daisuke Nakagawa, Hisashi Takeda, and Toshi Kawakubo. |
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| GM’s Gary MacLean (left) listens to LTC’s president Jim Manning, power specialist George Chesonis and sales director Jack Walter. |
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| AABC staff celebrates: Rodney Carter, Siobhan Searle, Carol Chambers, Catherine Searle, and Menahem and Tai Lee Anderman. |
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| Taking a coffee break are ABT’s Brenda Geary-Bucek and Klaus Brandt discussing Gaia and LTC’s success with Li-ion car batteries. |
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| Ready for a party to begin in the exhibit hall are Digatron‘s Scott Akam from Connecticut and Francy Huppertz from Germany. |
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