AMETEK Prestolite Power Celebrates 100 Years of Battery Charger Manufacturing
Troy, OH – AMETEK Prestolite Power, a leading supplier of industrial battery chargers and fleet management solutions, celebrates in 2016 its 100th year of manufacturing battery chargers for the material handling industry. Originally manufactured by the Hobart Brothers Battery Charger Division, Prestolite Power industrial battery chargers have set the industry standard worldwide since 1917. Its first charger, the HB Battery Charger, was not built by machine, but primarily by skilled laborers, who witnessed firsthand the very beginning of the technology. When compared with today’s advanced