Active Power Opens New Operations Center in United Kingdom

Active Power, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACPW), a manufacturer of continuous power solutions and critical backup power systems, has moved its UK operations into a new office and industrial facility in Evesham, England, near the city of Birmingham. This new operations center increases the company’s local office, operations and demonstration footprint by 52 percent over its former facility. The new center is located adjacent to the company’s former offices.

Active Power has moved its UK operations into a new office and industrial facility in Evesham, England, expanding into 19,000 square feet of facility space to support its sales growth and growing critical power solutions business. (Photo: Business Wire)

This move was undertaken to support Active Power’s growing critical power solutions business in the UK market and to build upon its success at marketing and delivering power infrastructure solutions to local clients including Capgemini, Tesco, Star Technology Services and other leading innovators in datacenter design.

The new facility allows Active Power to support its expanding solutions business as well as design, build and commission an even greater number of continuous power and infrastructure solutions. The additional office and operations space will be utilized by the company’s growing sales, service and manufacturing teams.

"Our new operations center provides us with a larger venue to demonstrate Active Power’s solution capabilities, from both a product and delivery perspective to our growing client base,” said Mark Lee, recently named general manager of the UK, Nordics and CIS region at Active Power. "Current and prospective customers will have the opportunity to experience live demonstrations of our PowerHouse and CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems and observe their PowerHouse systems through the manufacturing, assembly and test process.”

"We continue to see strong interest and order activity particularly for our continuous power systems, having just exited the first quarter of 2011 where complete solutions sales increased more than 700 percent versus the same year ago quarter with several large sales in the UK,” continued Lee. "Active Power is well positioned to garner even more market share with new infrastructure in place to support the company’s diversified sales channels, particularly with the UK being one of the largest UPS markets in the world.”

For a tour of the new Evesham facility, please e-mail emea@activepower.com or call +44 1386 870 006.

About Active Power

Founded in 1992, Active Power (NASDAQ:ACPW) designs and manufactures continuous power solutions and critical backup power systems that enable datacenters and other mission critical operations to remain ‘on’ 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Active Power solutions are intelligently efficient, inherently reliable and economically green, providing environmental benefits and energy and space efficiencies to customers’ financial benefit. The company’s products and solutions are built with pride in Austin, Texas, at a state-of-the-art, ISO 9001:2008 registered manufacturing and test facility. Global customers are served via Austin and four regional operations centers located in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and China, supporting the deployment of systems in more than 40 countries. For more information, visit www.activepower.com.

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