03.05.2006

Trojan to add new plant

The Trojan Battery Company is to add a 13,000 square metre manufacturing plant in Sandersville, Georgia, to the three plants the company currently operates in California and Georgia.

Construction will commence in mid-summer and is scheduled to be completed by September 2007. The initial number employed will be around 70 but is expected to increase to 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 also said that expansion of the company’s two plants in Santa Fe Springs, CA, and Lithonia, GA, is impractical because of space limitations.

He noted that the Sandersville site between Macon and Augusta is close to major customers and some key suppliers of the company. The new plant will be erected on a 20-acre site with easy access to the highway between Sandersville and Augusta.


The Trojan Battery Company was founded in 1925 and claims to be the world’s leading producer of deep cycle batteries, it is a longtime battery technology pioneer, having built the first golf car battery in 1952. It has built up a strong position in the aerial lift business, both as an OEM and after market supplier.