American Made Industrial Batteries

Crown Battery is a privately owned company that has made batteries in Fremont, Ohio for 100 years, since 1926. Its main product is industrial forklift and material-handling batteries for conventional, opportunity and fast charging. It also makes deep cycle, AGM, commercial and renewable-energy batteries for floor machines, golf cars, trucks, farm equipment and off-grid solar, and sells PHP, Access and EP industrial chargers.

All engineering and manufacturing happen in one ISO 9001 plant in Fremont, which has been expanded six times since it opened in the 1970s. It uses a robotic cast-on-strap machine for plate welding, computer-controlled curing ovens and its own acid recirculation system. Crown moved a factory from Mexico to Fremont after buying C&D Technologies' forklift battery business. It has 615 employees and says it buys domestic, recycled raw materials whenever possible.

Made in: Fremont, OH (lead-acid and AGM batteries: plates, curing, robotic assembly and testing).

Bought in: lithium forklift batteries and industrial chargers.

Source: Crown about us, 2025 · Crown Made in the USA, 2024 · Crown industrial brochure, 2022, checked 10/2026

EaglePicher Technologies, based in Joplin, Missouri, has made batteries since 1922 and has supplied the US government since the 1940s. It is the top US maker of thermal batteries and supplies power for more than 90% of US military munitions and mission-critical systems. Its products include thermal batteries, silver-zinc, lithium carbon monofluoride and hybrid primary batteries, lithium-ion batteries for satellites and aircraft, and pyrotechnic energetic devices. Its batteries are used in missiles, torpedoes, launch vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles and the Mars rovers.

More than 600 satellites now in orbit run on EaglePicher power, and its batteries provided the emergency power that brought Apollo 13 home. Joplin added a $20.9 million energetics facility in 2023.

Made in: Joplin, MO (headquarters and main plants) and its other US sites in Missouri, Kansas, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, eight locations in all.

Source: EaglePicher locations, 2026 · EaglePicher FAQs, 2026 · Battery-Tech, 2025, checked 10/2026

EnerSys, based in Reading, Pennsylvania, is one of the world's largest makers of industrial batteries. It makes flooded and TPPL (thin plate pure lead) forklift batteries and modular chargers, PowerSafe and DataSafe stationary batteries for UPS, switchgear, telecom and nuclear power plants, and power systems for cable broadband networks. Its defense and space lines include lithium primary and rechargeable batteries for aerospace, munitions and medical devices, missile thermal batteries, space-grade lithium-ion batteries, and Bren-Tronics military batteries.

EnerSys publishes a page for each of its US plants:

• Warrensburg, Missouri, an original Gates battery factory from 1983, is one of its largest plants, with 627+ people making TPPL batteries.
• Springfield, Missouri has two battery plants with about 770 people.
• Hays, Kansas covers 375,000 sq ft with four assembly lines making flooded stationary cells, including the backup batteries used in nuclear plants.
• Richmond, Kentucky has made forklift batteries since 1977 and is taking over flooded forklift battery production from a Mexico plant that is closing.
• Sumter, South Carolina fabricates the steel trays and components for EnerSys battery systems.
• Smaller plants make UPS and utility power systems (Suwanee, Georgia), cable broadband power (Bellingham, Washington), specialty lithium batteries (Horsham, Pennsylvania), space batteries (Longmont, Colorado), missile thermal batteries (Tampa Bay, Florida) and military batteries (Commack, New York).

Made in: Warrensburg and Springfield, MO; Hays, KS; Richmond, KY; Sumter, SC; Suwanee, GA; Bellingham, WA; Horsham, PA; Longmont, CO; Pinellas Park, FL; Commack, NY.

Imported: HX batteries for UPS systems from its Tijuana, Mexico plant, and other products from EnerSys plants in Europe and Asia.

Source: EnerSys manufacturing locations, 2026 · EnerSys release, 2025, checked 10/2026

Eos Energy Enterprises makes zinc-based battery storage for utilities, industry and commercial sites that need 4 to 16+ hours of discharge. Its Z3 module uses an aqueous zinc-bromide electrolyte, titanium, graphite felt and an injection-molded plastic case, with no lithium. The modules go into Eos Cube and Eos Indensity systems run by its DawnOS software. It is the only fully commercial US-designed and US-made alternative to lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries for long-duration storage.

Eos makes its batteries from five common, fully recyclable materials, and says most of its components come from suppliers within a day's drive of its Pennsylvania plants. Z3 production began at Eos Ingenuity Park in Turtle Creek in August 2023, with about 250 employees by late 2024. A new plant at Thorn Hill in Warrendale began production in June 2026, funded by a $303.5 million Department of Energy loan guarantee, and Eos is moving its second line there.

Made in: Turtle Creek, PA and Warrendale, PA (Z3 battery modules on automated lines).

Source: Eos manufacturing, 2026 · Eos company, 2026 · WPXI, 2026 · Allegheny Front, 2024, checked 10/2026

Stryten Energy, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, makes lead, lithium and vanadium batteries. Its products include forklift and material-handling batteries (flooded, maintenance-free and M-Series lithium) with modular chargers and inCOMMAND fleet software, and E-Series AGM batteries for telecom, data centers and utilities. It also makes lithium military batteries, including the i6T and SwatPack for combat vehicles that need to run their electronics without the engine, and vanadium redox flow batteries for long-duration grid storage. Its transportation plants make batteries for cars, heavy trucks, marine and RV, and lawn and garden equipment.

Stryten calls its batteries "made in the U.S.A." from a vertically integrated domestic supply chain, with a footnote: "made with some foreign components." The Salina, Kansas plant, open since 1975, is one of the largest lead battery plants in the US, with about 700 workers. In July 2026 Stryten agreed to buy C&D Technologies and Trojan Battery.

Made in: Cumming, GA; Fort Smith, AR; and Kansas City, KS (industrial batteries); Salina, KS and Manchester, IA (transportation batteries); Columbus, IN, Kansas City, MO, Lampeter, PA, Milwaukee, WI and Niagara Falls, NY (battery components); Ruckersville, VA (charger development and assembly).

Imported: some components; transportation batteries also come from its Ottawa, Ontario plant.

Source: Stryten locations, 2026 · Stryten about us, 2026 · Stryten Salina release, 2025 · ESS News, 2026, checked 10/2026