Maxwell Technologies Inc. announced today that it has added eight new distributors in Europe and the Middle East to serve growing demand for BOOSTCAP® ultracapacitor products and related technical and customer support. Dr. Richard Balanson, Maxwell's president and chief executive officer, said that the company is moving aggressively to leverage its leadership as a provider of innovative, cost-effective energy storage solutions.
"The worldwide ultracapacitor market is real, and we continue to strengthen the company's capabilities and global reach to serve that market," Balanson said. "This means more and broader talent, new and more technologically advanced products, stronger internal and external production and distribution capabilities and a wider network of partnerships and alliances. These new channel partners will help us to ensure the best service and technical support and fast, local language response for customers in their respective geographic regions."
The newly signed BOOSTCAP distributors are: Alfatec in Germany, Alphatron in Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Denmark, BLL in Israel, Dimac Red in Italy, Inelec in Spain, OEM Components in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Poland, Williamson in France, and Young ECC in the United Kingdom.
"Our network of channel partners is vital to supporting our continued growth in Europe and the Middle East," said Alain Riedo, vice president and general manager of Maxwell Technologies SA, the company's European subsidiary. "We continuously train all of our partners on new products and applications to ensure that they have the highest level of ultracapacitor technical knowledge in order to provide the best level of support for Maxwell customers."
Maxwell offers ultracapacitors with capacitances of up to 2,600F as well as BOOSTCAP ultracapacitor packs and modules that provide easy-to-integrate energy storage and power delivery solutions for a wide range of applications.
