________________________________________________________________________________ EaglePicher
Technologies
From lead mines to space exploration
How EaglePicher Technologies continues to push boundaries in battery and energetics manufacturing
Founded in 1843, EaglePicher Technologies( EaglePicher) is a defense and aerospace company with a long history. Director of Operations for Energetics, Jantzen Westfall, describes the journey:“ We started out as a lead mining company, eventually entering the battery market in 1922. In the 1940s, we were awarded our first special-purpose battery contract. We eventually merged with another group and created EaglePicher, and after an EaglePicher battery was launched into space aboard NASA’ s Explorer 1 satellite in 1958, our specialty battery business really took off.
“ For a long time, the company was owned by private equity. In 2023, the business was purchased by a private company out of Chicago, Illinois, called Tuthill. Since then, we’ ve started to reshape the culture and the way the organization functions.
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