# Exide Technologies

Group identifier: aiwaw:exide-technologies  
Ultimate owner: Ultimate owner not established in GLEIF  
Basis of membership: group as recorded in company documents – Source [C]: “Companies” register – group entry in company documents (no relations in GLEIF)  
Data as of: 2026-11-04, version 2.49  
Page: https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/exide-technologies

## At a glance

Exide Technologies – 3 companies in the register with 4 plants in 3 countries (most: Spain 2, Poland 1, Portugal 1). Metals of the plants: lead. Main links of the chain: smelting and refining – 2 plants; products – 1 plant. Membership follows the group as recorded in company documents, without a GLEIF consolidation relationship.

## Value-chain coverage

| Link | Plants | Stages |
|---|---:|---|
| Raw materials | 0 | – |
| Smelting and refining | 2 | secondary lead smelter (battery breaking, smelting and refining) 2 |
| Processing | 0 | – |
| Products | 1 | lead-acid battery maker 1 |
| Recycling | 1 | battery breaking and separation 1 |
| End uses | 0 | – |

## Plants by country

| Country | Plants |
|---|---:|
| Spain | 2 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Portugal | 1 |

## Full capacity by metal and stage

Full capacity of operating single-metal plants – separately for each stage and unit; no sum across stages (a smelter and an extrusion press process the same metal) and no ownership shares in plants (next stage). Multi-metal plants – in the totals table below.

No capacity of operating single-metal plants with a unit.

## Group structure

- **Exide Technologies** (corporate group; aiwaw:exide-technologies)
  - [Exide Technologies Recycling II, Lda.](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/exide-technologies-recycling-ii-lda.md) (company; Portugal; register · C)
    - Azambuja – lead-acid battery recycling and lead smelting (Azambuja, Portugal) – plant; secondary lead smelter (battery breaking, smelting and refining); operating; class B
  - [Exide Technologies S.A.](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/exide-technologies-s-a.md) (company; Poland; register · C)
    - Poznań – starter and industrial battery production (Poznań, Poland) – plant; lead-acid battery maker; operating; class B
  - [Exide Technologies, S.L.U.](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/exide-technologies-s-l-u.md) (company; Spain; register · C)
    - San Esteban de Gormaz – battery recycling, lead recovery by smelting (segunda fusión) (San Esteban de Gormaz, Spain) – plant; secondary lead smelter (battery breaking, smelting and refining); operating; class B
    - Sant Julià del Llor i Bonmatí – battery recycling plant (Recicladora Bonmatí) (Sant Julià del Llor i Bonmatí, Spain) – plant; battery breaking and separation; operating; class B

## Capacity and output of the group companies’ plants

Totals cover the full capacity (and output) of operating plants owned by the group companies, without taking shares in jointly owned plants into account; capacity attributed to the group by share will be added in the next stage. Only values in the same unit and for the same metal are added up.

The plants of the group companies have no capacity or output with a unit in the register.

## Flow analyses

“Metal flows” analyses in which plants of the group companies appear; below – analyses covering the metal and country of the group plants.

- [Lead Flows in Poland](https://ai-waw.com/en/metal-flows/lead-flows-poland.md) – in the analysis: 1 plant, 1 company

## Similar groups

Similarity: common metals (weight 0.5), chain links (0.3) and plant countries (0.2) – Jaccard index; only groups with at least one common metal.

- [Clarios](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/clarios.md) – in common: lead; smelting and refining
- [Monbat AD](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/monbat-ad.md) – in common: lead; smelting and refining
- [Olympia Group Ltd](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/olympia-group-ltd.md) – in common: lead; smelting and refining
- [Recylex S.A.](https://ai-waw.com/en/companies/groups/recylex-s-a.md) – in common: lead; smelting and refining

## Data quality

- Source class of plants: A 0, B 4, C 0
- Plants verified at source: 4 / 4 (2026-11-03 – 2026-11-04)
- Ownership relationships of companies: GLEIF relationship (class A): 0 of 3; group as recorded: 3 of 3; companies with an LEI: 0 of 3
- Basis of membership: group as recorded in company documents (class C)

The group card (page and Markdown) is open to text and data mining with attribution; the JSON data – like the other JSON data of the register – is reserved as a compiled database. Relationships from GLEIF: CC0 1.0.