TROJAN BATTERY SELECTS GEORGIA SITE FOR FOURTH PLANT

Trojan Battery Company will add a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Sandersville, Georgia, to the three plants the company now operates in California and Georgia. Construction will commence in mid-summer and be completed in September 2007. Initial employment of over 70 persons may be increased over 200 within three to four years.

Trojan Battery president, Rick Godber, said additional production capacity is needed because of rapid expansion of the company's markets for batteries used in golf and utility vehicles, boats and RVs, renewable energy systems, aerial work platforms and commercial floor-maintenance machines. Godber said that expansion of the company's two plants in Santa Fe Springs, CA, and one in Lithonia, GA, is impractical because of space limitations. He noted that the Sandersville site between Macon and Augusta is close to 0major customers and some key suppliers of the company.

The Trojan Battery plant will be erected on a 20-acre site with easy access to the highway between Sandersville and Augusta.

"We are pleased to have Sandersville as one of our company's host communities," said Rick Godber. "The town is family-centered, with a variety of community activities, and has an infrastructure and attitude that is very friendly to business." Trojan Battery Company is the world's leading producer of deep cycle batteries and a longtime battery technology pioneer, having built the first golf car battery in 1952. Trojan batteries provide power for a wide variety of industrial, recreational and auxiliary power applications. Trojan Battery Company was established in 1925 and is in its third generation of family ownership and management.