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Battery components — the parts we trusted enough to build our batteries on
Microtex began in 1969 as a components pioneer — PVC separators when the industry ran on wood and rubber, then the PT bag the founder patented in 1975. We still manufacture and supply them to other battery makers, along with cable-connector assemblies for forklift batteries. If a component is good enough to carry our own nameplate’s promises, it is good enough to sell.
PVC separators — Pluri-tubular (PT) bags — founder’s patent, 1975 — Forklift battery cable connectors — Supplied to battery makers & workshops
Microporous PVC separators
The separator is the diaphragm between a cell’s plates — microporous enough to let ions pass, tough enough to prevent contact and shorts for the battery’s whole life. Microtex pioneered PVC battery separators in India and has manufactured them continuously since; they serve inside our own flooded ranges and inside other manufacturers’ batteries across the industry. Sizes and specifications against your cell designs — send drawings or samples for matching.
FIG. 1 — MICROPOROUS PVC SEPARATORS
Pluri-tubular gauntlet bags (PT bags)
The PT bag holds a tubular battery’s positive active material around its spines — the component that decides whether a tubular battery keeps its promises. Our founder invented and patented it in 1975; its modern successor construction carries Indian Patent № 587320 (2026). We weave PT bags in-house for every Microtex tubular battery and supply them to other battery manufacturers — woven construction (not nonwoven), qualified by burst, tensile, porosity and hot-acid testing. The full story is on the technology page.
FIG. 2 — PT BAGS, WOVEN IN-HOUSE
Cable connectors for forklift batteries
The connector is where fleet batteries actually fail first — heat, corrosion and abuse concentrate at the plug. Every Microtex battery ships with heavy-duty cable-connector assemblies built in-house: correctly rated conductors, properly crimped, built for daily coupling — one more link in the chain we refuse to outsource. For trade supply of connector assemblies, the line is manufactured at scale and marketed by our group company Kruger Industries; fleet workshops replacing a connector on a Microtex battery can simply send a photograph of the existing plug — matching is routine.
Who buys components from us
Battery manufacturers who want separator and gauntlet quality their own nameplates can rely on; fleet workshops and battery-service houses replacing connectors and hardware; and export buyers who value a component maker that also builds complete batteries — because nobody understands a component’s job better than someone whose own product depends on it.