[1] The company has provided lithium-ion batteries to military aircraft and high altitude unmanned aerial vehicles.

[4] The area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the district, producing over $20 billion worth of ore between 1917 and 1947.

[4] Extraction ended by 1967,[4] but left enormous waste piles around the town contaminated by lead, zinc and cadmium.

During World War II, EaglePicher used diatomaceous earth and zinc to produce storage batteries for the US military.

[7] The production of germanium, the first semiconducting material, was essential to the invention of the transistor and the development of solid state electronics.

EaglePicher's silver zinc batteries provided electrical power for the life support and guidance control systems after a fuel cell failed on the Apollo 13 landing, thus helping the astronauts return safely back to Earth.

In 1974, the company was the first to begin work on large LiAl/FeS batteries for load leveling and electric vehicle application.

Its reorganization was approved in November 1996 with the ownership of the company going to a trust for victims of asbestos and lead poisoning.

[14] During its reorganization, Eagle-Picher acquired new owners, restructured, moved its corporate headquarters in Michigan, and divested itself of some of its non-core businesses.