Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, I have seen some here in Switzerland, but even though this country is not in the EU, I assume that supplies here will dry up as well. Nathan MicroGrid@aol.com wrote: > jcberger@jcberger.com writes: > > << > Buy some in Paris! (where selling mercury thermometers is forbiden now but no > batteries). > >> > > I was in Varta's Mercury battery plant in December, and I learned that they > will stop producing Mercury cells. The manager told me that the EEC has > banned them as well. Get them while you can in Europe > This will probably leave China as the last hope. Ed Buzniak(sp?) sent me a > couple of packages of some he had acquired, but I could not find out who made > the cells. I asked my Asian sales guy to see what the situation is there. We > don;t sell a lot to the button cell manufacturers, but he talks to most of > the battery companies there. I'll let you know. > > Otherwise, .... ADAPT! > > Bruce Bowman > Killingworth Ct - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator Belgium photo page: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman