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Aug 22, 2018

Luis T Hernandez Johnson Controls One Company

(Luis T Hernandez, founder of) "LTH" battery of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and Johnson Controls USA battery division have merged and moved to Monterrey, Mexico. Now Wally Mart and Costco, and other Johnson Controls vendors can be said they are selling products 100% made outside the USA.

Deka and Trojan are two of the larger made-in-USA companies that remain.

Of course in the AGM arena, Lifeline is a 100% USA company.

Well, so much for some political slogans.

So, if Johnson Controls gets strange in their marketing or products, now you know why.

20 Replies

  • mike-s wrote:
    More nonsense.

    LTH is a merely a brand of JCI.

    JCI has at least 8 battery manufacturing plants in the US. They're functionally headquartered in Milwaukee, WI (although for tax reasons, legally in Cork, Ireland). Their Power Solutions division, which makes batteries, is based in Glendale, WI. They're considering selling it, but nothing has happened yet, and none of the reported interested parties are Mexican.



    Fake news.



    Merely a brand name...
    I love it...

    http://d26maze4pb6to3.cloudfront.net/lth/7613/7606/1844/libroLTH.pdf
  • azdryheat wrote:
    MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
    (Luis T Hernandez, founder of) "LTH" battery of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and Johnson Controls USA battery division have merged and moved to Monterrey, Mexico. Now Wally Mart and Costco, and other Johnson Controls vendors can be said they are selling products 100% made outside the USA.

    Deka and Trojan are two of the larger made-in-USA companies that remain.

    Of course in the AGM arena, Lifeline is a 100% USA company.

    Well, so much for some political slogans.

    So, if Johnson Controls gets strange in their marketing or products, now you know why.
    Political slogans? Please explain.


    I believe OP was referring to MAGA.
  • MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
    (Luis T Hernandez, founder of) "LTH" battery of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and Johnson Controls USA battery division have merged and moved to Monterrey, Mexico. Now Wally Mart and Costco, and other Johnson Controls vendors can be said they are selling products 100% made outside the USA.

    Deka and Trojan are two of the larger made-in-USA companies that remain.

    Of course in the AGM arena, Lifeline is a 100% USA company.

    Well, so much for some political slogans.

    So, if Johnson Controls gets strange in their marketing or products, now you know why.
    Political slogans? Please explain.
  • red31 wrote:
    was not LTH acquired a long time ago, 2004?
    Probably around the same time Mex's dementia started.
  • JCI is headquartered in Ireland.

    JCI does make some batteries in Mexico, but they have 8 plants in the US and many more around the world. Just last year JCI invested nearly half a billion dollars in expanding 3 of their US plants to increase capacity.

    Johnson Controls makes LTH batteries, they haven't merged with them.
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    DEKA and MK (Both East Pen Battery) are the only batteries 100% US made. others are made in the USA of lead imported from other companies but East Penn has its own Lead Smelting plant so they make from 100% US Lead.

    Just so you know

    IN 2014 I put a pair of DEKA G-20's (A CG-2 type battery) in my RV. I think it was something like May when I did this.
    THIS YEAR like in Feburary. for the 1st time. I had to add water..

    My original Interstates. when new it was an annual mob (Every mother's day).

    But the DEKA's went 4 years.. Yes there are a few changes. but not that many and not that recent (The changes result in a slower recharge) but even with the changes the Interestates needed 4x the water .
  • j-d's avatar
    j-d
    Explorer II
    Well... Lots of non-Americans are very smart and lots of their products are very good. The Man and his Batteries are good examples.

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