HBL Power Systems Limited was incorporated in 1977, as Hyderabad Batteries Limited. The company started as a small-scale industry to focus on the niche markets serving defense and other specialized applications. The company was promoted based on the confidence in indigenous talent to develop technologies for strategic products. At that time such products were desperately needed due to foreign resources crunch.

Military products considered to be of strategic importance were available only at exorbitant prices. Technology transfer or License manufacture was virtually impossible. Even where technology was available financial viability was very poor. It was imperative that technology was developed indigenously.

The volume of demand for such products necessitated development of appropriate technologies and manufacturing systems to ensure compliance to the most stringent military standards. In this effort, the support received from various agencies of the (Indian) Ministry of Defense such as the Directorate of Naval Armament Inspection, helped HBL a long was in progressing the development activity rapidly and providing battery products of strategic importance to the nation.

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🟫Silver Zinc Batteries for Torpedo, Missile and Aircraft Applications [May 2017]