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1920 Chloride Electrical Storage Co. (CESCO),
UK set up trading operations in India as an Import House 1946
First factory - Shamnagar, West Bengal.
1969 Second factory - Chinchwad, Pune.
1981 Third factory - Haldia, West Bengal.
1994 Technical collaboration with Shin Kobe
Electric Machinery Co. Ltd., Japan - a subsidiary of the Hitachi
Group.
1995 Chloride Industries Ltd., renamed as
Exide Industries Ltd.
1997 Fourth factory - Hosur, Tamil Nadu.
1998 Takeover of the industrial undertakings
of Standard Batteries Ltd. as a going concern. Added four
more factories, taking the total number of factories to Eight.
2000 100% Acquisition in Chloride Batteries
South East Asia (Pty) Ltd., Singapore.
49% Acquisition in Associated Battery Manufacturers (Ceylon)
Ltd., Sri Lanka.
2003 Commissioning of the 9th plant at Bawal,
Haryana.
New joint venture company in the United Kingdom. Espex Batteries
Ltd., formed with 51% Exide holding. |
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