TAB was established in 1965 as a subsidiary of Rudnik Mežica Holding in a region where different lead activities are more than 350 years old.

For the first 15 years TAB was a licence partner of Tudor, Sweden. Nowadays, TAB is producing a wide range of lead acid flooded batteries in modern factories with more than 400 employees:

- one factory is producing batteries sold under the house TAB brands Topla, and TAB, plus First Equipment-OEM with annual capacity of 2000000 pieces.

- the second factory is for the production of industrial batteries, trade mark TAB, annual capacity is 1.000.000 pieces of medium size traction and stationary cells.

- in TAB also various military batteries are produced.

High quality ТАВ and Topla batteries are known worldwide especially in Europe, Asia and America.