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The Battery Show 2026 Recap: Energy Storage Takes Center Stage

The Battery Show 2026 Recap: Energy Storage Takes Center Stage The EMS team talking with visitors at Booth 5442 at The Battery Show 2026 in Detroit. The Battery Show North America wrapped up last week at Huntington Place in Detroit. It was unseasonably warm outside, and the energy on the floor matched it. Thank you to everyone who stopped by Booth 5442 to talk about connections, cell formats, and the problems that keep battery engineers up at night. Here’s what our team heard, what we showed, and what’s coming next. Energy storage was the story of the show Aluminum/copper clad connectors

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IBS 2026 Recap | What EMS Took Away from the Battery Seminar

Where Battery Technology is Headed: International Battery Seminar 2026 Review The Rosen Shingle Creek, home to IBS 2026. A new venue for the Seminar, and a good fit for a show that keeps growing. The 43rd International Battery Seminar wrapped up last week at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, and the EMS team is back with full notebooks and a better read on where the battery industry is headed. For those not familiar, the International Battery Seminar is not a typical trade show. It is the longest-running annual battery industry event in the world, organized by Cambridge EnerTech since 1983.

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International Battery Seminar 2026 | Booth #312

The World’s Battery Industry Converges in Orlando… And EMS Will Be There In just a few days, the most important minds in the global battery industry will converge in Orlando, Florida, and Engineered Materials Solutions (EMS) will be right in the middle of it. The 43rd International Battery Seminar & Exhibit runs March 23–26, 2026, at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, a new venue for this storied event. If you’re attending, you’ll find EMS at Booth #312 on the exhibit floor. Whether you want to talk through a specific clad metal application, get a closer look at our proprietary SigmaClad®

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Battery Show 2025 and the Future of the Battery Industry

Battery Show 2025: 15 Years of Innovation & What’s Next Last week, the Battery Show celebrated 15 years of battery excellence, where engineers, OEMs, innovators, and manufacturers met to exchange ideas, unveil breakthroughs, and shape the future of electrification together. Since its inception, the Battery Show has been a microcosm of the battery industry. Topics and discussions that dominate each year’s show tend to reflect the direction of the battery show as a whole. This year was the Battery Show’s 15th anniversary. What started with early breakthroughs in lithium-ion batteries has now led us to the rise of gigafactories, mass EV

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Joel explaining a bimetallic strip while taking apart a circuit in The Last of Us Season 2

EMS Gets Callout on HBO’s The Last of Us

EMS Employee, Thermostatic Bimetallic Strip, Mentioned by Name in This Season of HBO’s The Last of Us Here at Engineered Materials Solutions (EMS), we like to avoid the spotlight. We’re much more comfortable behind the scenes. You may not have heard of us before, but we can promise you; you’ve used EMS’s signature clad metals countless times without realizing it. At work, at home, in the car, in a plane; EMS’s clad metals can be found just about everywhere. So you can imagine our surprise when lifelong employee, Thermostatic Bimetal Strip, was mentioned by name by none other than Pedro Pascal’s

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