Eagle-Picher

EaglePicher Technologies
Company typePrivate
Founded1843
FounderEdgar and Stephen J. Conkling
Headquarters
St. Louis, Missouri
,
United States
Products
  • Thermal batteries
  • Primary batteries
  • Secondary batteries
  • Energetic devices
  • Implantable medical batteries
  • Medical battery packs
  • Custom battery management systems
  • Charging stations
Websiteeaglepicher.com

EaglePicher Technologies is a privately held American manufacturing company known for its battery technology, energetic devices, and battery management systems. The company started in 1843 as the White Lead Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. A merger with the Picher Lead Company of Joplin, Missouri occurred in 1906, becoming Eagle–Picher Lead, which evolved into Eagle–Picher Industries, Inc. and finally EaglePicher Technologies. With its merger with the lead mining company owned by Oliver Picher, it was the second largest producer of lead and zinc products in the world.[1] The company has provided lithium-ion batteries to military aircraft and high altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. EaglePicher also developed the first human-implantable lithium-ion battery. The company has nine North American manufacturing and research and development sites and over 900 employees.

  1. ^ Knerr, Douglas (1992) Eagle-Picher Industries: Strategies for Survival in the Industrial Marketplace, 1840–1980 Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, page 77 Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, ISBN 0-8142-0557-7