|
|
Exide Worldwide |
|
|
Investor Relations |
|
|
Press Room |
|
|
Exide & the Environment |
|
|
Suppliers & Diversity |
|
|
Material Safety Data |
|
|
Careers at Exide |
|
|
|
|
|
Exide Technologies Network Power Facility In Fort Smith Receives ISO 14001
Certification
|
Princeton,
N.J. - February 26, 2002 -- The Exide Technologies network power
facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas, has achieved ISO 14001 certification of its
environmental management system (EMS). Exide Technologies (OTCBB: EXDT) is the
global leader in stored electrical energy solutions. The Fort Smith operation,
which also is ISO 9001 certified, is the thirteenth of the company's facilities
worldwide to have received the ISO 14001 accreditation. Exide received its
first ISO 14001 certification in June of 1999.
Exide's Fort Smith facility produces the sealed lead-acid battery brands
Absolyte and Absolyte XL as well as GNB flooded lead-acid batteries for
telecommunications and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) power applications.
Customers include AT&T, Bell Canada, NTT, Telus and Verizon. The ISO 14001
certification, sanctioned by the International Organization for Standardization
in Geneva, verifies that a plant's environmental processes conform to relevant
standards. It defines the elements of an effective environmental management
system that can be integrated with other management requirements to assist
organizations in achieving environmental and economic goals. The certification
was awarded by auditor Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an independent foundation with
the objective of safeguarding life, property and the environment, and a leading
international provider of services for managing risk.
"Exide's management systems integrate sound environmental principles in all
practices company-wide," said Craig H. Muhlhauser, President and CEO of Exide
Technologies. "In addition to assuring that our performance will continue to
meet legal and other policy requirements, the ISO 14001 certification of our
management systems complements our commitment to quality and also helps us
identify ways to reduce cost and enhance the sustainability of our operations."
The ISO 14001 certification of the Fort Smith facility follows similar ISO
14001 recognitions issued at Exide plants in Auxerre, France; Horton, Norway;
Poznan, Poland; Azuqueca and Manzanares, Spain; and Bad Lauterberg, Budingen,
and Weiden, Germany in 2001.
|
About Exide Technologies
|
Exide Technologies is the world's largest industrial and transportation battery
producer and recycler with operations in 89 countries.
Industrial applications include network-power batteries for telecommunications
systems, fuel-cell load leveling, electric utilities, railroads, photovoltaic
(solar-power related) and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) markets; and
motive-power batteries for a broad range of equipment uses, including lift
trucks, mining vehicles and commercial vehicles.
Transportation uses include automotive, heavy-duty truck, agricultural, marine
and other batteries, as well as new technologies being developed for hybrid
vehicles and new 42-volt automotive applications. The company supplies both
aftermarket and original-equipment transportation customers.
Further information about Exide Technologies, its financial results and other
information can be found at www.exide.com
|
Media Contact
|
Bruce Cole: 630/691-7849
Alan Chapple, Exide Technologies: 678-566-9514
|
Investor Contact
|
Chuck Burgess, The Abernathy MacGregor Group, Inc.: 212-371-5999
|
| Certain statements in this press release may constitute
forward-looking statements as defined by the Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. As such, they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause the actual results of the company to be materially
different from any results expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. These are enumerated in further detail in the company's Form 10-K.
|
|
|
