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Improve your product AND your bottom line. Treated SureCure is a fundamentally better way to create TTBLS crystals, with more uniformity and more efficiency in, both, time and energy use, compared to steam curing and other methods. Battery manufacturing and performance will benefit from tested and proven enhancements like stronger plates, more-consistent curing, increased cycle life, and improved charge acceptance — all while providing verifiable savings.

INDUSTRY NEWS Hammond Bolsters Asian Production Capacity With New Treated SureCure® Manufacturing Line

With full-scale operations of its North American Treated SureCure® manufacturing line underway, Hammond Group announced increased production capacity at its Malaysian plant. The facility in Kuala Lumpur is capable of making just over 4.1 million pounds of Treated SureCure® per year. Demand for one of its most effective additives had risen to such a degree that the company doubled capacity by bringing production online in the US in early 2023. In addition to SureCure® products, Hammond Malaysia produces Advanced Negative Expanders tailored to assist with SLI, Deep-Cycle, PSoC and

Energy Storage needs. The plant is ISO:9001 Certified and allows for quick turnaround on orders to customers throughout Asia. Read more at HammondGlobal.com/news.

Editorial

What price climate change?

The battery business worldwide is set for a boom as renewables take centre stage in power generation and making energy storage a must. But how will Asia’s rapidly expanding economies deal with the challenges they face? How to balance a region’s surge into the future and a rising death toll.

WELCOME TO SIEM REAP!

Gateway to the splendours of Angkor and the temples of yesteryear

This year’s ABC is in one of the most unusual venues for the conference. Cambodia’s second city may be small and bustling, but it contains the largest and oldest temple complex in Asia.

THE ONE MINUTE GIVEBACK

ABC making a difference to the children of Siem Reap

Full details of how delegates and exhibitors can contribute to the local charity the Angkor Children’s Hospital. Our giving can save children’s lives, whether it’s one dollar or a thousand.

VIEW FROM THE CHAIR

Time to reflect on an inflection point in the Asian battery business Conference organizer Mark Stevenson considers this year’s agenda, the build-up of 20ABC and the key thinking that goes on behind the scenes in bringing the meetings together.

VIEWPOINT: ANDY BUSH FROM THE ILA

Our blow-by-blow look at the presentations that will be the highlights of the week

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