{"id":7029,"date":"2022-07-26T09:38:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/uncategorized\/asian-battery-conference-bali-2019"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T09:54:33","slug":"asian-battery-conference-bali-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/news-and-events\/asian-battery-conference-bali-2019","title":{"rendered":"Asian Battery Conference \u2013 Bali 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, the conference content and its drivers have of course changed \u2015 from a very technical and scientific format to one that now also addresses the commercial and socio economic aspects of a growing, developing industry. At the time of 1ABC, back in 1988, the world lead tonnage consumed was 5.5 million tonnes with 65% entering the battery market, today we consume over 11 million tonnes with 85% being converted to batteries. The range and types of batteries we now produce have also changed during this period with VRLA a standard product and designs for stop\u2013start vehicles becoming commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a far cry from 2ABC when the market was dominated by the use of antimonial alloys and when many Asian producers were only starting to think about converting the negative into a calcium alloy and producing their first \u2018hybrid\u2019 battery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So it is with this history and background that I have great pleasure in welcoming all delegates to the 18ABC in Bali, Indonesia, which aims to deliver an enhanced knowledge and a greater appreciation of our wonderful and growing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, the conference content and its drivers have of course changed \u2015 from a very technical and scientific format to one that now also addresses the commercial and socio economic aspects of a growing, developing industry. At the time of 1ABC, back in 1988, the world lead tonnage consumed was 5.5 million tonnes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":6857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batteries","category-news-and-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbpapers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}