Advanced Expander for EFB Applications
Hammond Group is proud to announce the launch of their AE-EFB series of negative expanders. This latest addition to the Hammond Advanced Expander product line offers numerous industry-proven benefits in Enhanced Flooded Battery (EFB) applications. Currently, battery manufacturers are faced with the dilemma wherein increasing dynamic charge acceptance (DCA) and partial state of charge (PSoC) […]
Hammond Group to Present at the 2019 ILBF in Beijing
Hammond Group is excited to announce that our Vice President of Performance Additives, Gordon Beckley will be giving a presentation on “Performance Additives for Lead-Acid (PbA) Batteries: The Enabler” at the 2019 International Lead Battery Fair (ILBF) in Beijing, China. The conference runs from April 1-3, and the presentation will be given on April 2nd […]
Battery Council International’s Newest Board Member: Terry Murphy
Mr. Murphy joined Hammond Group’s Board of Directors in 2011 and was elected President and Chairman in 2013. Prior to joining Hammond, Mr. Murphy spent 30 years at Rocketdyne, a division of the Boeing Company, developing rocket engines and deep space power systems. In 2007, he became the founding CEO of SolarReserve, a company which […]
Marco Robotti Joins UK Team
Hammond Group is excited to welcome Dr. Marco Robotti to their UK team as Materials Engineer. Marco received his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Barcelona. His thesis was on functional surfaces obtained by thermal spray techniques developing photocatalytic and photoelectrocatalytic materials. His recent work was at Fiamm Energy Technology S.p.A. in research, […]
David Boden awarded the International Lead Award
The International Lead Medal has been awarded to the late David Boden, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the lead battery industry following a lifetime of design and innovation, and for his inspirational work mentoring the next generation of lead battery leaders. The medal is awarded annually at either the European Lead Battery Conference […]
Hammond Group Achieves US & Int’l ISO 9001:2015 Certification
Hammond Group, Inc. has maintained and operated in compliance to an ISO 9001 standard since 1998 and has now successfully transitioned all of its U.S. and international divisions to the ISO 9001:2015 standard. Certification to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 standard demonstrates to customers that Hammond Group is committed to consistently provide conforming […]
Hammond Group Employees Give Back to Community
Giving back to our community is something we truly believe in, and we were fortunate to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana! This organization believes in a world where everyone has a decent place to live. They have been building decent, affordable homes for struggling, working families since 1986.
Lead Batteries are an Environmentally Sustainable Solution to the Clean Energy Challenge
Environmental regulatory systems are inherently complex. Policies and agencies often find themselves at odds with each other, as they try to implement their own charters. This is certainly the case in the energy area, and particularly with battery power. Here’s the problem. While climate programs are promoting battery power, other groups have targeted lead batteries […]
Hammond Group to Present Paper on Positive Paste Additives at 2018 ELBC
Dr. Marvin Ho, V.P. Research & Development, will be presenting a paper on positive paste additives at the upcoming European Lead Battery Conference in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Ho and his research team has been developing next generations additives to reduce electrolyte stratification, increase battery life and improve the lead-acid battery’s charge efficiency. Dr. Ho received […]
Hammond Group’s CTO Participates in NAATBatt Panel Discussion
Gordon Beckley, V.P. Performance Additives & Chief Technical Officer, participated in a panel discussion on “Hot Issues in Lead Acid Manufacturing and Recycling in North America” along with Adam Muellerweiss (Johnson Controls), Dr. Stephen Clarke (Aqua Metals) and Dr. Boris Monahov (Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium) at the NAATBatt International Conference in San Antonio, Texas. His […]
