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News Release from: Saft Lithium Battery Division
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2002
Large MNO2 battery contract from the US
Military
Saft has received 40% of the latest US Military CECOM (Communications and Electronics Command) contract to supply primary LiMNO2 batteries.
Saft has received 40% of the latest US Military CECOM (Communications and Electronics Command) contract to supply primary LiMNO2 batteries The contract will require supply of three primary lithium batteries - BA-5372/U, BA-5368/U and BA-X567/U - over the next five years, with an estimated value of $16 million
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 3 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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This contract along with the latest award of 60% of the estimated $150 million contract for primary LiSO2 (lithium sulphur dioxide) batteries received early this year continues to make Saft the largest supplier of primary lithium batteries to the US military.
In addition to these awards Saft is presently delivering the highest volume of BA 5590/U batteries to the US Military since Desert Storm.
The sophisticated BA-5590/U battery powers the military's most advanced communications system.
With this award Saft will be delivering all 11 types of primary lithium batteries to the US military.
The significance of this achievement for Saft, already the largest supplier of LiSO2 batteries, is that it is now being called upon for the first time to become a major supplier of the LiMNO2 technology.
Saft will now bring its long-term industrial expertise to this new technology giving CECOM a proven industrial base only seen in LiSO2 to this point.
The product for this contract will be assembled in Saft's Valdese, NC facility using some components from a sister facility in South Shields, England.
The Valdese site has expertise in production of multiple cell chemistries including, SO2, MNO2, Li-ion, and has battery assembly expertise in the above plus Ni-Cad and lithium thionyl chloride chemistries where the cells are produced in other Saft sites around the world.
The Valdese site also had been critical to the US military in the past with all Desert Storm deliveries achieved from the Valdese site. Request free introductory details about products from Saft Lithium Battery Division ...
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