The show is over and thank you for your participation and visiting Centralion's booth. Compared to last year, the level of visitor's interest was much higher.
According to Cebit after-show report, with 2,992 foreign firms, ( 2003: 1,876 ) CeBIT once again underscored its reputation as a truly international exhibition. The Asian-Pacific region managed to increase its already strong CeBIT presence this year. While in 2003 at total of 1.211 firms from these countries occupied a net display area of 31.978 sqm that year, this time it was 1.387 companies on 33.057 sqm of exhibition space. This made the Asia-Pacific contingent the biggest ever in the history of CeBIT.
Taiwan took top honors again for the region, with 709 exhibitors ( 2003: 664 ). The majority of Taiwan exhibitors presented themselves on 11 theme-oriented "Taiwan Pavilions", spread over as many halls, and a national pavilion organized by the country's official TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Promotion Council ).
We are happy to announce new ups management software - WinPower, a software offers powerful user-friendly features than others in the market.
With WinPower software, you can remote monitor and control UPS through LAN, get warning notifications through broadcast and mobile phone, multi-shutdown PCs, and schedule UPS self-test. This software supports lots of O/S including Windows family, Novell, Linux, Sun Solaris 7/8/9, IBM Aix 4.3x, 5.1x, and HP-UX 11.x. More than that, to offer increased benefits for our customers, we have scheduled to release USB version in the end of April and MAC version in the end of May ,2004. We are confident the new WinPower software meets and exceeds each customers' unique needs, continuing providing innovative solutions to all power problems.
Down-Load version is available in the internet right now and CD version will be available on 1st June 2004. The current software Commander Pro will be phased out and replaced by WinPower on 1st June afterward.
Lead drives SLA battery price hikes--
Rising raw-material costs, especially that of lead, are driving Asian manufacturers to increase quotes, as well as supplies. Makers all over Asia are increasing their quotes, but at competitive rates, in response to the rising cost of raw materials since September last year. The cost of lead has risen by as much as 60 percent due to growing demand from battery makers; and lead accounts for at least 30 percent of the total production cost of each battery. Quotes for lead-acid batteries are expected to increase in Taiwan with rising raw-material costs and a market glut.
SLA battery supply
on the rise
The China Industrial
Association of Power Sources (CIAPS) estimates that mainland China's SLA
battery output reached 32 million kVAh, valued at about Rmb8 billion ($966.2
million at Rmb8.28:$1), in 2002. Experiencing a 25 percent market growth
last year, local makers are optimistic that the market will continue its
boom in the next several years due to increasing demand from the
communications, automotive and power systems, emergency lights and UPSes. As
a result, SLA battery suppliers have been expanding their production
capacities. Most makers have utilized over 90 percent of their production
capacity; others are running at full capacity.
Gel batteries will
become a trend
Another
product development trend is toward the use of gel on SLA batteries, which
feature high thermal capacity, wide operating temperature ranges, no
internal short-circuit, high reliability, low acid density, low
self-discharge and overcharge protection.
Gel
batteries are good substitutions for conventional models for deep discharge
applications and battery life cycles can be improved by 20 percent.