This edition of Batteries International was produced in very different circumstances from normal with our editorial and advertising teams ‘isolated’ and working from home and one member of staff nearly hospitalised with Covid-19.
Oddly enough, after speaking to a wide section of our readership, we quickly became aware that our industry was clearly going to be able to ride out some of the difficult times ahead as the world slides into a recession. The result is our cover story. I trust you find it interesting.
In these troubled times we all need to support each other and for our advertisers we have added a link to the digital magazine to your website.
This is all part of our industry’s pressing need to communicate as much as we can. This isn’t a time for retrenchment, it’s a time to be shouting from the rooftops about what we do!
In this issue we also look at ground-breaking work from Hammond showing how tetrabasic lead sulfate can do wonders in battery formation; we interview Robby Bourlas, head of Syst