Thanks For A Great IMHX 2022
- By AMIT GHOSAL
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- 20 Sep, 2022
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Here are a few photos from our stand at IMHX 2022 in the Birmingham NEC. Thanks to everyone who came along to say hello.
Espex Batteries is delighted to announce the latest addition to our national service vehicle fleet, helping to serve our customers even more efficiently. What do you think of the new grey colour?
After two successful decades supplying sustainable lead-acid traction batteries and chargers for a variety of materials handling applications, Espex is now preparing to provide starter batteries for electric forklifts as well as the automotive industry.
Amit Ghosal, chief executive of Espex Batteries Ltd, commented “Espex is a household name in the world of forklift batteries, helping to keep the UK’s logistics industry running for over twenty years. Due to repeated demand from our customers and taking advantage of our unique position as a supplier of CEIL battery products, we’ve decided now is the time to start supplying a range of starter batteries, too. This will help us further cement out strengths in the logistics industry, providing starter batteries for electric forklifts, but also to step into the automotive industry at the same time.”
Exclusive CEIL automotive SLI batteries will be available through a nationwide distribution network from the second quarter of 2025; both normal and high-performance SLI ranges will be launched soon. Keep watching the Espex website for further announcements.
To further manage increasing demand and better serve our customers across the UK, Espex Batteries Ltd has transferred its Northern operation from Wakefield to Leeds, into a newly upgraded 8500 sq ft warehouse and office facility.
The new location grants us capacity for up to 10,000 traction battery cells, allowing us to swiftly and safely assemble them in steel trays using our bespoke mechanised equipment.
Espex Batteries’ Chief Executive, Amit Ghosal, commented: “This new location represents a major upgrade to our UK capacity and a symbol of our ambitious growth plans. This is in addition to our current head office in Barry, Wales, where a further 30,000 traction cells are kept in stock for immediate delivery and installation.”
Further information to come following the location’s official Grand Opening later in the year.
New location details:
Unit 1
BizSpace Leeds
Amberley Road, Wortley
Leeds
LS12 4BD
Head office: 02920 705453
Leeds office: 02922 677710
The newly-constructed warehouse at Espex Batteries’ South Wales HQ has been official opened by a team of Exide Industries directors, as the UK company celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Espex Chief Executive Amit Ghosal was joined for the grand opening by Mr Subir Chakraborty, Managing Director & CEO of Exide Industries Ltd. India, the group which own Espex Batteries. Also present at the occasion were Exide-India’s Director Finance and CFO Mr Asish Mukherjee, as well as Director-Industrial Mr Avik Roy.
Mr Ghosal commented: “With this added capacity we’re even better positioned to swiftly service the needs of customers in the UK and beyond. We’re looking forward to another 20 years of success.”
The new facility brings the HQ’s capacity up to 50,000 traction cellsas well as battery trays, battery chargers and all the accessories needed to ensure prompt supply for customers throughout the UK and Ireland.
As part of Espex Batteries’ national drive to offer even swifter, better value service to our loyal customers, we’ve just completed work on an additional warehouse at our Barry, South Wales HQ. Fully racked and kitted, the new facility has 700 pallet positions which can hold up to an 20,000 additional traction cells in stock.
“Year on year our business is growing and demand for our CEIL traction batteries increases,” explains Amit Ghosal, chief executive of Espex Batteries Ltd, exclusive supplier of CEIL batteriesin the UK and Europe. “We have every reason to be confident in the future of British logistics and have therefore augmented our capacity to 50,000 traction cells as well as battery trays, battery chargers and all accessories needed to ensure prompt supply for our customers throughout the UK and Ireland.”
Espex Batteries has come a long way since its inception in 2003 and we can’t think of a better way to celebrate our 20th anniversary than with this new warehouse and our pledge to improve the availability of our traction battery systems.
They say time flies, and that’s no truer than here at Espex Batteries - we can’t believe that it’s been 20 years since the company was founded! We’ve been serving the UK logistics industry as the exclusive supplier of CEIL traction batteries for two decades, ensuring forklifts keep running with our network of install and service engineers.
“While traction batteries have remained our core business these past 20 years,” explains Espex Batteries’ Chief Executive Amit Ghosal, “we have been continually developing our products and improving our service. These days customers can purchase CEIL’s “ORC” rapid-recharge traction batteries which offer the best of both worlds: the practicality and economy of lead-acid with the fast opportunity-charging offered by lithium-ion equivalents.
“Likewise our network of fitters and service engineers is more widespread than ever across the UK, and we’re finding our international customer base is growing year on year.”
We look forward to serving your business for the next 20 years and beyond.
There are just two weeks to go until 2022’s IMHX exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham, and we can’t wait to see you all there.
From the 6th to the 8th of September we’ll be running an exhibition stand at THE logistics solutions exhibition, inviting our valued customers and suppliers to meet up with the Espex team face-to-face. We’ll also be welcoming new prospects with the chance to find out what we can offer both in terms of our battery systems and chargers, and our flexible, customer-focused way of working. So, when you’re in Birmingham in early September, please make sure to visit us on stand 5F61 in Hall 5 .
Pre-register online at IMHX.netfor your free entry pass.
IMHX returns for 2022 with a large exhibitor floor in addition to a series of conference events and a new Sustainability Zone. We’ll see you there!
Every day our team of battery engineers is travelling the country fitting and inspecting traction batteries in order to keep UK logistics moving. We’re delighted to announce that as part of our continuous drive to be a more sustainable business, these site visits will now be doing away with physical paperwork and allowing for job sheets to be created – and signed-off by our customers – digitally.
Using our bespoke mobile app, engineers can list the works done at each site visit – such as inspections, voltage checks on cells etc – take relevant photographs then talk all this through with our customers before both parties sign off the itemised job sheets. It’s a process that leads to more streamlined record-keeping for both our battery engineers and our customers.
“Our business has a strong focus on sustainability,” explains Amit Ghosal, Chief Executive of Espex Batteries Ltd, “for example we recycle customers’ traction batteries once they reach the end of their natural life, ensuring materials are not wasted or worse – end up in landfill.
“So this step toward digitisation of our site team’s job sheets is a natural progression, and it also makes for a more clear process overall, with easier record-keeping and accountability.”
Don’t forget: if you want to find out more about how our battery engineers can work with your site teams, come and visit us IMHX at the Birmingham NEC this 6th – 8th September, stand 5F61, where we’ll be showing off our ORC range of rapid/opportunity recharge traction batteries.