Wirtz Manufacturing
About
Wirtz Manufacturing designs and builds equipment for making lead-acid batteries, from pig lead to finished battery.
Its range covers grid making (gravity casting, continuous negative grid casting, continuous positive grid casting and punching, strip casting and rolling), lead furnaces and oxide, paste mixing, pasting, cutting, stacking and curing, battery assembly lines and testers, acid mixing and filling, formation, and battery recycling, smelting and refining. Founded by John Wirtz in 1932, it has added Oxmaster, Leko, Conbro and Battery Recycling Systems and manufactures in the United States, China and India.
The 2025 Battery Report lists Wirtz among U.S. battery equipment makers for mixing, coating, calendering, slitting, stacking, packaging and filling.
From the Battery Report
Battery Report 2025 · chapterCell & Pack ManufacturingVolta Foundation's annual report on this part of the battery industry.Supply Chain Segments
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Location Info
- HQ
- Port Huron, Michigan, United States
Sources
Where the details on this profile come from.
What they do: Manufacturing Equipment
- Battery Report 2025, p.113 (List of Equipment Manufacturers - USA: Mixing, Coating, Calendering, Slitting, Stack, Packaging, Filling) · Battery Report · checked Oct 2026
Quick Facts
- Last Updated
- Oct 16, 2026
