Maxwell Introduces Availability of Engineering Grade Boards For Its New SCS750 Super Computer for Space

Space-Qualified Single Board Computer has up to 1000 Times the Processing Power and 600 Times Better Upset Reliability than Existing Rad-Hard SBCs for Space and Military Applications.

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Maxwell Technologies Announces Management Transition; President & COO Richard Balanson To Succeed Carl Eibl as CEO

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. announced a planned management transition through which the company’s president and chief operating officer, Richard Balanson, will succeed Maxwell’s chief executive officer, Carl Eibl, as CEO next month.

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Maxwell’s BOOSTCAP Ultracapacitors Designed Into SmartSynch’s Innovative SmartMeter

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. announced that its BOOSTCAP® ultracapacitor has been designed into SmartSynch’s SmartMeter.

SmartSynch is a technological leader in the automated meter reading market. There are currently over 100 million utility meters in the United States. Approximately 10 million of those are Commercial and Industrial (C&I) meters, which SmartSynch is targeting with its SmartMeter.

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Maxwell Forms Alliance With Yeong-Long Technologies

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. announced that it has formed an alliance with Yeong-Long Technologies Co., Ltd., to manufacture and market Maxwell’s proprietary BOOSTCAP® ultracapacitor products in China.

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On March 19, 2003, Maxwell Technologies announced that Carlton J. Eibl, CEO of Maxwell Technologies since December, 1999, will be leaving this position shortly, to be succeeded by Rich Balanson, former President and COO. Mr. Eibl will continue to serve on Maxwell's board of directors.

In an informal interview, Mr. Eibl shared his thoughts on Maxwell's past, his role with the company - then and now - and the current status of Maxwell as he hands the reigns to Dr. Richard Balanson.

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High Voltage Capacitors

Maxwell Technologies is proud to announce that our second fully automated production line system for High Voltage capacitors has been in operation since September 2002 in our European facility at Rossens, Switzerland. This system is the only one of its kind in the world.

As a major winding machine and assembly line manufacturer, Maxwell Technologies combined all its technical expertise and development processes to build this fabrication chain which includes:

• 1 main processor control unit for the full chain
• 1 high speed winding machine
• 2 robots for transfer / connection of the windings
• 2 parallel online test stations (each station performs a capacity & dielectric test on each winding before serial connection)
• 1 serial connection / housing assembling chain.

Detail of winding machine and robot 1		Detail of electrical test station

This new machine was specially designed to answer our customers' requests for:

• shorter lead-time
• increased capacitance (grading and coupling capacitors)
• double source suppliers (two parallel production lines)
• top quality of our high voltage capacitors

Thanks to this machine, Maxwell Technologies has increased its capability to manufacture a wider range of capacitors, including capacitors used for Capacitive Voltage Transformer and Power Line Carrier systems.

In addition to our wide selection of grading and coupling capacitors we are introducing new possibilities and products for our customers where higher capacitance are needed (coupling, CVD, PLC, laboratory, etc.). Our customers can benefit from size and volume reduction which should allow them to reduce the supporting structure and reduce their construction costs.

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Ultracapacitors, the New Thinking in the Automotive World

Due to the increasing power demand in future vehicles for comfort improvement, as well as ongoing pressures for more environmentally friendly means of transportation, automotive manufacturers are developing alternatives to existing fossil fuel-driven vehicles.

Perhaps the most promising near-term alternative to fuel-cell vehicles, which will not be ready for volume production for at least a decade, is hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technology. While progress has been made in control, engine and motor design, they have not been successful with regard to the electric power storage systems. This is due primarily to the fact that batteries are used to provide the power peaks in most of the currently developed hybrid electric vehicles. But the deficiencies of battery storage systems are multiple and they create many design challenges for automotive engineers.

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