03-10-10

Primet Selected by AlwaysOn as a GoingGreen Top 50 Winner for Its Innovative Advanced Battery Materials Technologies

Primet Selected by AlwaysOn as a GoingGreen Top 50 Winner for Its Innovative Advanced Battery Materials Technologies

March 08, 2010 | Ithaca, NY | Primet Precision Materials has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen East Top 50 winners. Inclusion in the GoingGreen East 50 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Primet was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Primet was recognized on the basis of its suite of advanced battery material technologies, which allow for

• production of many of the most important electrode active materials for lithium ion batteries (LIB) with the same set of capital assets
• rapid optimization of the performance of electrode actives, yielding high speed to market
• tailoring of the physical characteristics of electrode actives to meet the requirements of existing manufacturing systems.

“The GoingGreen East Top 50 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the global clean energy technology markets,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and systems that are driving the next phase of greentech innovation and transforming the biggest industries on earth.”

Primet is honored to be selected as a GoingGreen Top 50 winner, “ said Primet CEO Larry Thomas. “This award recognizes the transformational effect our technologies will have on the production of large format batteries for applications such as vehicle electrification and grid storage.”

A full list of all the GoingGreen East Top 50 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:

alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/34471

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.