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VARTA was founded by Adolph Müller in 1887, and established in 1904 as a subsidiary of Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA. [1] After World War I, VARTA together with AFA was acquired by German industrialists Günther Quandt and Carl Hermann Roderbourg. [2] After World War II, most of the VARTA shares passed from Günther Quandt to his son Herbert Quandt.
Energizer Holdings, Inc. is an American manufacturer and one of the world's largest manufacturers of batteries, headquartered in Clayton, Missouri. [2] [3] [4] It produces batteries under the Energizer, Ray-O-Vac, Varta, and Eveready brand names and formerly owned several personal care businesses until it separated that side of the business into a new company called Edgewell Personal Care in 2015.
This is a list of the sizes, shapes, and general characteristics of some common primary and secondary battery types in household, automotive and light industrial use. The complete nomenclature for a battery specifies size, chemistry, terminal arrangement, and special characteristics.
Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. As of 2015 Nigeria has the world's 20th largest economy, worth more than $500 billion and $1 trillion in terms of nominal GDP and purchasing power parity respectively. It overtook South Africa to become Africa's ...
In the United States, the expected battery recycling cost (to be used for proper disposal at the end of the service lifetime) is rolled into the battery purchase price. Under the so-called "batteries directive" ( 2006/66/EC ), the sale of consumer Ni–Cd batteries has now been banned within the European Union except for medical use; alarm ...
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Electricity generation in Nigeria began in Lagos in 1886 with the use of generators to provide 60 kW. [10] In 1923, tin miners installed a 2 MW plant on the Kwali River; six years later, the Nigerian Electricity Supply Company, a private firm, was established near Jos to manage a hydroelectric plant at Kura to power the mining industry.
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