August 11, 2022: EnerSys announced on July 15 the formal opening of its expanded Richmond, Kentucky distribution centre in support of its motive power portfolio.
Robert Blythe, the local mayor, took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the 195,000 sq ft centre.
Products shipped from the expanded site will include the company’s range of traditional flooded lead acid and Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) batteries and modular chargers.
Chad Uplinger, VP of sales for the firm’s Motive Power Americas division: “With these products housed in a centrally located US facility, our fulfilment capabilities are streamlined to a single point for order processing and shipping thus improving our responsiveness to our customers.”
EnerSys CEO David Shaffer, who announced the annual results on May 25, said the company had exceeded its capacity goal for its proprietary TPPL technology, with demand “continuing to outpace our ability to supply”.
Sales in the company’s motive power segment amounted to $1.4 billion — an increase of 17% over the previous year, Shaffer said.
