US-based lead-acid separator firm Microporous has agreed a global partnership deal with Chinese micro-glass fibre firm Zisun Technology to manufacture, develop and distribute AGM battery separators.
Microporous said the deal would see it add AGM separators to its product portfolio and combine “leading expertise in lead-acid battery chemistry and separator engineering with high-end micro glass fibre and related wet laid technologies”.
Shanghai-listed Zisun, formed in 2007, claims to be the largest fully integrated producer of micro-glass fibre in Asia— “and the only one having fully-owned and controlled access to raw materials, micro-glass-fibre manufacturing with both rotary and flame attenuated technologies, and state-of-the art fully-automated wet laid media production lines”.
Microporous was acquired by New York-based private equity firm Seven Mile Capital Partners in 2014 and operates as an independent company.
