Grupe takes over as Digatron CEO

as new CEO of Digatron Power Electronics Inc in Connecticut on January 1 which will concentrate on expanding further into both the lead and lithium sides to the energy storage market.

Friedrich Grupe has been promoted to chief executive officer at Digatron Power Electronics, effective January 1 and will be based in Aachen, North RhineWestphalia, Germany.

The firm is the central core of the larger Digatron group which has operations in Qingdao, China; Pune India (working through Ador Digatron); Milan, Italy; and Shelton, Connecticut, US; as well as its headquarters in Aachen.

Grupe, who is a wellknown and well liked figure in the battery community, says he is expecting great things in this coming year. “We’ve got an exciting range of existing products and a couple of new ones in the pipeline,” he says. “One of which we will be launching shortly.

“The market for high quality testing equipment is booming. We are also steadily moving into lithium battery formation equipment where we are developing work with Digatron Systems Italy which was set up in 2019.

“I see this as a time for ourselves and the wider group to grow internally and externally. We’ve just moved into our brand new R&D facility here in Aachen and we have recruited new staff here with more to come.”

Grupe’s appointment comes at a potentially pivotal moment in the wider Digatron.

Bjoern Stoll took over

Ador Digatron last year launched its Quench, product which is making steady inroads into DC fast chargers for EVs in India.

Grupe takes over from Holger Driesch who has taken a senior management position in Mangoldt an electrical engineering firm.

Grupe has been with Digatron for almost 14 years and started as a project manager in May 2009. He was appointed vice president for sales and marketing in October 2015 and vice president for product management in September 2019.

Digatron was set up by Rolf Beckers in 1968.

Volt Resources makes Chintawar new CEO

Volt Resources promoted Prashant Chintawar to become CEO on January 1. Chintawar joined the Australia-based company as battery metals senior adviser on September 1. He is a former director of global business development and sales for German chemicals conglomerate BASF.

Volt MD Trevor Matthews became financial and commercial executive director on the same day, while COO Justine MacDonald, who joined Volt in 2021 after 22 years in the African mining industry, will expand her involvement in the operation and advancement of the company’s graphite assets, Volt said.

Non-executive chairman Asimwe Kabunga said: “Since joining Volt, Prashant’s high-level industry experience and deep industry networks have shone through in the work

Gianpaolo Giuliani has joined the Sunlight Group as commercial energy storage systems executive director, the company announced in a LinkedIn post on December 29. Giuliani, a former global sales director of energy storage for GE, will lead a team focused on prod-

EnerSys has appointed Tamara Morytko as a director, the company said on December 7. She joins the board with immediate effect for two years.

Morytko’s last worked as president of the pumps division at Flowserve, a US supplier of industrial and environmental machinery where EnerSys said she established a reputation as a supply chain subject matter expert. he has done and the projects he has underway.” uct management for Sunlight’s ESS high voltage portfolio and business development for global markets.

On October 4, Volt said it had formed a new business unit through which it is supplying graphite products for lead acid and lithium battery markets in the US.

The new unit, Volt Energy Materials, provides products including coated spheronized purified graphite (CSPG) for lithium ion batteries and graphite expander additives for negative electrodes for lead batteries.

He brings over 15 years of experience in energy, management and renewable hybrid generation and, as of 2014, has specialized in renewables and energy storage.

Before that, Morytko spent two years as CEO of Norsk Titanium, a Norwegian aerospace and defence firm.

Previously Morytko spent seven years with oil services company Baker Hughes becoming Asia Pacific region president.

From 1996 until 2010, Morytko held a number of increasingly senior