Effective from 1st of Sep, 2017, CR battery business for corporate customers (to be embedded in equipment) has been transferred to Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Address is as follows.
SONY Micro Batteries, (SR, LR, CR) button and coin cells are being permanently discontinued in 2019, along with all other Sony branded batteries. SONY has been the world leader in silver oxide watch batteries for many years, owning a world market share in excess of 40%. SONY has been the leading supplier of watch batteries to many of the world’s leading watch movement manufacturers, including Citizen, Seiko, Casio, Orient and Epson. Since three years ago, SONY sold its battery manufacturing facilities to MuRata Manufacturing, a Japanese electronics component manufacturer with over USD 14 billion in annual sales. Now, in 2019, MuRata will introduce its own line of MuRata branded batteries to replace SONY in the market. The MuRata line-up for SR, LR and CR button and coin cells will encompass the same complete product line. The MuRata batteries continue in the same tradition as the SONY batteries they will replace, as one of the best quality button and coin cells available to consumers and manufacturers. Micropower Battery Company has been a master distributor of SONY branded batteries since 1993, distributing to North and South America. As our inventory of SONY micro batteries is exhausted, we will be introducing the MuRata batteries as a direct replacement. The entire MuRata primary battery product line; silver oxide button cells, alkaline button cells and lithium manganese dioxide coin cells will be available in retail/wholesale trade packaging by this December, 2019. For further information about either SONY or MuRata batteries, kindly contact us.
