EXHIBIT 24(a)

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     The undersigned as an officer and director of both Eagle-Picher Holdings,
Inc. and Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., and as director of Eagle-Picher
Technologies, LLC, hereby consents to and appoints David G. Krall and John F.
Sullivan, and each of them, as his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents
with all power of substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any
and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the 2001 fiscal
year of both Eagle-Picher Holdings, Inc. and Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.,
corporations organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and
the State of Ohio respectively, and of Eagle-Picher Technologies, LLC, a limited
liability company organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all
exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities
and Exchange Commission pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite and necessary to be done in and about the same as fully to all intents
and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or either of them, or their or his
substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
thereof.

     In Witness Whereof, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand on this 13th
day of February, 2002.

/s/ JOEL P. WYLER
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Joel P. Wyler