Exide Technologies engages in the manufacture and supply of lead-acid batteries for transportation and industrial applications in the Americas, Europe, and rest of the world. It offers transportation batteries, which include ignition and lighting batteries for cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, agricultural and construction vehicles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, marine, and other applications, including micro-hybrids. The company sells its batteries under the Centra, DETA, Exide, Exide Extreme, Exide NASCAR Select, Orbital, Fulmen, and Tudor brand names, as well as under various private labels. It also provides industrial energy products that consist of motive power batteries, which are used in material handling industry for electric forklift trucks, floor cleaning machinery, powered wheelchairs, railroad locomotives, mining, and the electric road vehicles markets. In addition, the company offers network power batteries that are used for back-up power applications in telecommunications systems, computer installations or data centers, hospitals, air traffic control, security systems, utilities, railway, and military under the Absolyte and Sonnenschein brand names. Further, Exide Technologies offers battery chargers and related equipments for the operation and maintenance of battery-powered vehicles. Additionally, it recycles lead-acid batteries. The company sells its transportation products through mass merchandisers, auto parts outlets, wholesale distributors, battery specialists, dealer networks, national account customers, retail stores, original equipment manufacturers (OEM) dealers, automotive parts and battery wholesalers, auto centers, service installers, and oil companies; and industrial energy products to OEM suppliers of lift trucks, industrial companies, retail distributors, warehousing companies, and manufacturers. Exide Technologies was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Milton, Georgia.