Accumulators Clement

The company of the Accumulateurs Clement is a French company which exploited 1948 with 2005 a Fonderie of Plomb and an assembly workshop of batteries, with the locality “the Factory” with Piolenc in the Vaucluse (84).

The Clément accumulators manufactured batteries for all the models and in all the fields. (heavy trucks, motor bikes, boats, telecommunications, cars…)

The batteries were produced entirely in the company: cast iron of lead to make the elements, with the assembly of the battery in the vats, until the checks and the load of the accumulators. This company sold its products under the label - Clemco-

Sidoine Clement, cofounder with Courbevoie in 1928 of the accumulators Baroclem (subsidiary company of the company Varta), decided at the end of the last war, to create a manufacture of electric fencers. It did it in company of his brother in an old silk spinning mill which it had acquired a few front years, intallant itself in Piolenc (84). From 1945 to 1965 the company was a company in fact between the two brothers, then became Public limit company. Of some workmen at the beginning the personnel evolved/moved, like the customers, to be made up of 25 people at the end of this period. The activity continued after the deaths in 1970 and 1974 of Joseph and Sidoine Clement.

In 2000, the establishment employed 47 people and manufactured 150.000 batteries per annum; it had known to preserve its market share of the battery of replacement (2%) while specializing in the small series (in particular the batteries 6V).

The company ceased its activities at the end of 2005, because of the great fluctuations in prices of the raw materials (lead) and the massive arrival of the Asian market.

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