CONTACT Magazine (Vol.18 No.1 – April 2018)

INNOVATORS
batteries with Calcium Shield
Technology, which basically means
that you never have to worry about
maintaining your battery as the
structure and composition of the
materials and chemicals minimise
water loss, extending the overall life
of your battery.”
Technology modernises
battery production
The new TRACK plant is located at e
TecK’s Industrial Park, Arima, on 44,000
square feet of land, and will have the
capacity to supply the Caricom market.
The new factory has cutting-edge
technology with a modular design,
allowing for ease of expansion in the
future. The equipment is state-of-theart,
and the manufacturing process
will be fully automated, with quality
control stations at every stage.
The first phase of configuration
will allow for the production of
automotive and heavy-duty batteries,
which will supply Lange’s current
local and regional export markets.
The plant will provide employment
for 20 to 50 people at its maximum
capacity by year-end, creating highly
technical jobs for a different class of
manufacturing.
The TRACK brand has three
differentiating points of value,
according to Ibrahim Abdool,
Marketing Manager, Lange Trinidad.
The new factory has cuttingedge
technology with a
modular design, allowing
for ease of expansion in the
future
“VR Guard Technology protects your
battery against the rigours of driving
in harsh conditions. Secondly, Power
Plus Technology ensures that the
battery is able to start all modern
vehicles which carry more components
and features than in the past.
“We are also developing the
Targeting one million
units
Blanc is keenly looking to the future.
“Once the plant is up and running,
we will be ready to export. We have
already commenced negotiations with
partners in the Greater and Lesser
Antilles, as well as South and Central
America. From our early interactions,
they are very impressed with where we
are going, and with the product and
operations of the company. Our goal
is to manufacture one million units
within the next five years. We want
TRACK to be seen as an international
brand with the ability to compete on
quality in the international market.”
In the medium to long term, Lange
plans to add renewable energy, and
industrial traction batteries for fully
electric equipment, to its product line.
Blanc explains: “As vehicles become
more automated, with increasingly
complex electronic systems and
equipment, we will monitor changes
in the market, and we have set up
the plant so it will be easily adaptable
to manufacture batteries of any
specification.
“Our mission has always been
to provide high quality products
at competitive prices, so this move
into manufacturing will allow us
to focus on quality control and
competitiveness, while adapting as the
industry evolves.”
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Trinidad
and Tobago Chamber
of Industry and Commerce
www.chamber.org.tt/contact-magazine