Buy American

We are an American company and assemble our products and refurbish your products in the Smokey Mountain Appalachia's of America.

We use only the BEST battery cells from Panasonic, Saft, and Sanyo.

•  The battery cells we use in the assembly of your battery packs are Panasonic and Sanyo manufactured in Japanese factories across the world or Saft America manufactured in French factories in France or Mexico.

  • Panasonic and Sanyo have set up facilities in China that manufacture to the highest quality specifications required by Panasonic and Sanyo.  We sell their cells and use their cells.  We do not use the cells of Chinese battery companies.

  • We have been in the business of recelling dry cell rechargeable battery packs of any voltage and amperage from any industry for over 19 years. 

  • We see the battery packs after use giving us a unique knowledge of the quality of the battery pack manufacturer and the battery cells used in the packs.

  •  The chargers we sell are manufactured in Canada, Britain, and ours in the US.

  •  We DO NOT knowingly contribute to the US deficit to the World Bank of China.  Nothing against Chinese people.  We love Chinese people and wish more were in the US receiving fair income for their labor, (not to be confused with Union Labor, a major reason the third world work force was discovered).  We DO NOT knowingly contribute to slave labor.

  • The cost of nickel: Battery cells are shipped for melt down and recycle.  They are melted into 1 ton cubes , placed on rail cars, sent to port, and shipped to China.  China then reprocesses the nickel and sells that nickel foil to battery cell manufacturing companies.  Since January 2006 to May 2007, China has raised the price of nickel foil from $18K per ton to $57K per ton.  

Rathbone Energy is a:
SBA Hub Zone Empowered Certified Contractor in an underdeveloped economic area of the Appalachia's: Located on the county line of Cocke County - Newport / Jefferson County - Dandridge, Tennessee. 

• Doing business with a HubZone Empowered company may provide tax benefits for your company.

• We qualify as a HubZone because

  • This Appalachian area has an average yearly per person income  well under the national poverty level, <16K per annum.

  • Has an average unemployment level well above the national average, >10%.

  • Borders the Cherokee Indian Reservation of the Smokey's

• We chose this Tennessee location to give Hope to some and be an example for many.  You can provide a great benefit to our region by placing your orders with us today; keeping us in business, these mountain craftsmen and women on the payroll, and help build our community. 

  • We manufacture and assemble battery packs or assemble battery packs in the United States, thus actually made in the USA.

  • Rebuilding dry cell rechargeable battery packs of any voltage and amperage for any industry is a Specialty at Rathbone Energy, Inc. (Rebuild Batteries, Recell Batteries, Refurbish Batteries)

  • We serve clients in the United States and Internationally

There are no fancy buildings or flatulent egos to inflate at Rathbone Energy.  This helps keep our cost down while supplying you the best battery cell inserts.   We keep overhead to a minimum and have modest salaries allowing you the best value on the highest quality cells.  

Having a strong, "on-site", staff of quality engineers , who are employed by us and not sub-contracted, we offer a very effective repair center for many electronic devices.  When you have no schematic and you can still troubleshoot a device effectively and correctly you know you have a great staff.

Our Philosophy On This Issue

With our philosophy and work ethic we have, in the first quarter of 2007, officially taken a US government supplier contract order from a Chinese factory for 1000 battery packs per month using non-Chinese battery cells.  This was NO small task but all statistics above placed us in this position.  There will never be a $35.00 per hour job in our facility.

Since leaving Wal-Mart I have watched our country and years ago I myself was in the job market.  US citizens trying to keep up with the Jones family have out priced themselves.  US companies made a discovery that people in other countries could be trained to do the same jobs for substantially less income.  They left the US work force and they are not coming back.  US companies and @#$* unions do not care if the people are paid unfairly or even if they use slave labor.  But both the US companies, @#$* unions, and the employee became unreasonable, yes a relative position, but I and my staff have jobs.

I see empty factories and warehouses everywhere that I go and these realtors are still sitting on them with enormous  sell prices.  They could be renovated to incubator business for the backbone of America but are not.  I wish I had the money to invest in renovating these facilities for true US Small Business as well as Start up businesses.  And by the way, when I mention Small Business, I am not talking about GWB's 6.5 million dollar version.

The point is that our philosophy here at Rathbone Energy keeps jobs in America and even though we are not stealing oil and erasing American lives we expect your support if you are a "True Blood and Guts Amaracan".

Battery Cells and Jewlery

A welder station

Technician rebuilding Dionic 90's

Technician at work

Technician at work

Technician had a birthday.

Another Birthday

We know it's her birthday

Our No Friles facility

Technician at work

Newphew in training

Show out nephew

The serious nephew

Serious

Welder Station

Staff members just discovered why we have a sign up that states "No Jewlery Allowed" when working with battery cells.

We use state of the art welders which qualify for lithium ion welding certification.

No one is allowed to interrupt technicians while working in assembly.

This sales lady had a fondness for one of our NAB neighbors in a Kilt.

She had a fondness for one of our NAB neighbors so we took advantage at her expense. All had a good laugh.

11 year old nephew learning the family trade

11 year old nephew showing up his adult trainers.

He sets the pace and out works the others. You should see him walk others through and explain what he does to help.

This nephew gets as serious here as on the soccer field. Fortunately for me they love being with me.

We use state of the art welders which qualify for lithium ion welding certification.

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Battery Cells and Jewlery

Staff members just discovered why we have a sign up that states "No Jewlery Allowed" when working with battery cells.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 01:24:39 AM