HOPPECKE Batteries
Michael Hilmerich currently serves as Managing Director for the Business Unit Rail at HOPPECKE Batterie Systeme GmbH since September 2020 and has held the position of Managing Director for the Business Unit Motive Power at HOPPECKE Batterien GmbH & Co. KG since November 2015. Prior experience includes significant roles at HELLA, where Michael was VP of Global Aftermarket and VP of Aftermarket EMEA from October 2006 to October 2015, and at Johnson Controls as Head of Sales OES Europe from August 2003 to September 2006. Michael began a career in sales at VB Autobatterie GmbH, serving as Sales Manager from September 1993 to July 2003.
HOPPECKE Batteries
HOPPECKE - your expert for industrial batteries & energy storage solutions The availability and securing of electricity is one of the key requirements of our society and at the same a challenge for our times. That is where we believe we can make a contribution: with the development of marketable, future-oriented energy storage solutions for numerous areas of application, we help to develop, among other things, the expansion of electrical energy supply from regenerative energy sources, enable stable grids and promote digitalization and automation. HOPPECKE operates internationally, but is still close to its customers, because in addition to our headquarters in Brilon-Hoppecke in Germany, we are represented in 150 countries by 23 international subsidiaries and numerous representative offices and partners. 50 percent of DAX companies and 40 percent of Euro Stoxx50 companies are HOPPECKE customers. With more than 2,000 employees, we are the largest privately owned manufacturer of industrial battery systems in Europe. HOPPECKE has been run as a family business since 1927. In addition to innovation and continuous improvement of our products, the values of holistic responsibility and cooperation in a spirit of partnership are of paramount importance to us. Today, we serve four main application areas with our products and solutions: Energy storage solutions for traction systems (trak), energy storage solutions for a secure power supply (grid), energy storage solutions for renewable energies (sun) and energy storage solutions for railway and metro systems (rail). All four fields of application are supported by HOPPECKE Service and its comprehensive range of services. With more than 90 years of experience, our company develops and produces energy storage systems to uniform standards worldwide. Learn more about us and our products and give us new challenges.