Battery Manufacturers.

[bag 'o' bones]

Anyone know who manufacturers the 'PLATINUM' range of leisure batteries.

 

Done a bit of digging and it appears they are something to do with Delphi or Johnston Controls. But my web sources are anything but clear.

 

Just as a matter of interest from a technical point of view.....

Edited March 27, 2016 by bag 'o' bones

[raymondh]

Hi,

Platinum batteries are manufactured Europeand in the Far East rtc and distributed under the "Platinum" brand by

 

http://www.platinumbatteries.co.uk/ based in Trafford Park Manchester

 

I collected one from them and the guy who handed the battery over placed an unbraded battery on the bench looked at the invoice and then selected a "Platinum" battery label from a long row of label dispensers and fixed it to my battery

 

Ray

 

Edit to show more info sent to me by one of the largest UK battery suppliers

 

Dear Sir

Apologies for the late reply as I have been away from the office.

There are no “real” car, truck, marine and leisure battery manufacturers in the UK

There are two assemblers of batteries in the South East but they are mainly manufacturing special types; mainly for vintage and veteran vehicles

My estimation is that the batteries sold in the UK come form the following areas

75% Europe (including Turkey)

20% Far East (China, Korea, Indonesia)

3% North and South America

2% Africa and Middle East

Edited March 27, 2016 by raymondh