The facility allows Blue Spark to produce large volumes of its line of disposable, flexible carbon zinc batteries.
Blue Spark’s ultra-thin carbon zinc batteries are used as a power source in a host of traditional and printed electronics applications, a market which industry analyst IDTechEx predicts will rise from $2.2bn in 2011 to $44.25bn in 2021.
Blue Spark marketing vice president Matt Ream said growing customer demand and analyst predictions of accelerated growth in the worldwide market for printed electronics was a key factor in the firm’s decision to invest in expanding its production capabilities.
Current capacity of the new West Bend plant is estimated at upwards of 300 million batteries per year, depending on the product being produced.
