Athenian visions

Michael Mayer waxes lyrical on lead-acid batteries and on Athens, the setting for this year's 10th European Lead Battery Conference.

How robust is the lead-acid battery industry in 2006? With material prices sky high, with inter-company mergers prevalent, with fewer but larger production centres and with competition apparently increasing from newer types of battery, many will no doubt say that business is tough. Some not closely associated with the industry may conclude that it is on its last legs. Why, then, did the organisers of the 10th European Lead Battery Conference receive offers . . .