1.  Automotive batteries are manufactured and rated according to specific criteria.

2.  Exide, a Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based maker of automotive batteries, sold its notes through its subsidiary Exide Holding Europe SA, based Gennevilliers, France.

3.  Lead demand for use in automotive batteries was particularly strong, Bhar said.

4.  The battery is about double the size of a typical automotive battery.

5.  The company has blamed margin erosion in its U.S. automotive battery business and Australian retail and housing markets.

6.  There, he worked with Robert Weiner, who is trying a similar factory floor turnaround at Exide Technologies, the largest maker of automotive batteries.

7.  But the operation had been troubled by intense competition and margin pressure in the U.S. automotive battery market, and operating difficulties at one of the lead smelters.

8.  SPG manufactures lubricants and automotive batteries, principally under the Trane brand name.