The London Metals Market has seen sharp increases to the cost of manufactures to purchase Nickel Metal Powder used to manufacture batteries and any other product that uses metal or metal items on their products. Due this unstable market it is very difficult to price batteries manufactured with  Nickel. This is impacting all Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium battery manufactures.
Since January the cost of Nickel used in battery manufacturing has risen by approximately 45% and is still climbing with no end to increases in sight.
These raw materials increases are increasing the base cost to manufactures of  batteries and other products that use Nickel. thus increasing the cost of products to end users and consumers.
Supreme Power Battery is committed to offering the best pricing available for Nickel Metal Hydride  and Nickel Cadmium batteriess depite this event. We ask our customers to Please understand and bear with us till the market stabilizes.  A graph is shown below to give  you a example of how the markeet has risen since January 01/2007. This graph is exactly as shown on London Metals Market website dated 01/04/07. You can access London metals Market-Nickel  Data and Prices through this link and check metals market increases for yourself.

We will stay on top of the metals market and update this information as data changes.

Nickel Graph:
 UPDATE-May May 5th, 2007:

London metals market seems to be stablizing but it is too soon to be sure. How this will impact the manufacturing of batteries and their respective price will not be seen for 1-3 months or more. Hopefully the market for raw nickel will slow and stablize at some future date.

UPDATE-May May 19th, 2007: 

London Metals is still rising.. This is causing many concerns for retailers, distributors and end consumers of all products. Prices for Raw Nickel are expected to high a high market price of 60,000 per ton.