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March 18, 2011 - As a company committed to the environment and to minimising costs, Hoppecke Industrial Batteries has done what it believes no other company has done before.
Rather than dismantle its stand at a recent engineering exhibition in Birmingham, the firm decided to transfer the whole structure to its offices in Newcastle-under-Lyme. This involved several fork lift trucks – powered by Hoppecke batteries of course – and even a high-profile police escort up the M6.
The stand structure is now being used as a visitor centre where customers can see a showcase of Hoppecke’s equipment and systems.
Centre-stage is the company’strak® air system which is becoming the industry standard for battery recharging. Combining energy efficiency with simple but powerful equipment management, trak® air helps forklift truck fleet owners to reduce their carbon footprint, cut battery replacement costs, save on energy bills, use less water, and keep downtime for forklifts to a minimum. The visitor centre also features Hoppecke’s high frequency chargers which are fitted with a micro-processor that acts as a data management system and reduces battery charging time by up to two and a half hours.
Hoppecke’s Non-Executive Director, Bernard Molloy says: “We’d always planned to re-cycle our exhibition stand in this way because it is a very cost-effective solution. These structures are expensive and would normally be thrown away so re-using this and extending the lifetime of it makes financial and environmental sense.”
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HOPPECKE was founded in 1927 and is now the leading specialist for industrial battery systems, and at the same time the largest battery manufacturer in European ownership. Hoppecke offers to its customers throughout the world, concepts for efficient and reliable power supply for every industrial application. A leading exponent of environmental care for more than 80 years, Hoppecke offers solutions for a variety of industries including motive power, reserve power for IT/telecoms, power stations, solar energy and UPS, special power for rail and underground. It is a European leader in recycling of industrial batteries, and operates its own recycling foundry for lead-acid batteries, thereby making a substantial contribution to careful husbanding of resources. Hoppecke invests heavily in innovation and has one of the largest R&D departments in the industry with an estimated 5 per cent of turnover being ploughed into R&D to bring new battery technologies to market. Its UK operation is based in Newcastle-Under-Lyme in the Midlands.
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Company contact:
David Millett
Hoppecke Industrial Batteries Ltd
Unit 2 Lowfield Drive
Centre 500
Wolstanton
Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 0UU
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W: http://www.hoppecke.co.uk
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