Press Releases

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has been honoured with three AVA Digital Awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, as well as a 2022 WebAward from The Web Marketing Association. The AVA Digital Awards, administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, is an international competition that recognizes excellence by creative professionals responsible f

Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) announces the first shipments of its 72kV vacuum circuit breaker (VCB) with dry-air insulation, the latest addition to the company’s switchgear product line. Designed, assembled, and tested in the U.S.A., MEPPI’s 72kV vacuum circuit breaker meets all applicable ANSI, IEEE, and IEC certification standards. The 72kV VCB employs Mitsubishi Electric’s 65-year history of vacuum interrupter technology and provides customer

SPS – Industrial Automation Fair (SIAF) Guangzhou, the premier event for intelligent automation solutions in South China, is fast approaching its 14-year milestone. Over the years, the fair has witnessed the industry evolve and has become a key driver for its growth, through business collaboration and technological development. Taking place from 1 – 3 March 2023 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, the fair is gathering momentum with a large contingent of lead

Bosch Rexroth, one of the world's leading suppliers of factory automation solutions, is planning to expand its operations and will move its linear motion and assembly technology customizing facility to a new location in Charlotte, N.C. Since experiencing significant growth in its factory automation business, Bosch Rexroth has outgrown its present location and has opted to lease and outfit a new, build-to-suit location. This facility will be developed and owned by Charlotte-based

In its efforts to adopt advanced powering technology to decarbonize power generation in India, NTPC Ltd., the country’s largest power generating utility, and GE Gas Power signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to demonstrate the feasibility for hydrogen (H2) co-firing blended with natural gas in GE’s 9E gas turbines installed at NTPC’s Kawas combined-cycle gas power plant in Gujarat. Under this significant collaboration, the two companies will jointly explore the p

ABB has signed a channel partner agreement with Insta Automation Oy, an independent specialist in industrial automation and digitalization solutions, to grow its control systems business in Finland. ABB and Insta will work together to strengthen their distribution channels, improve industry knowledge and increase lead generation across many industries, including water, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and energy. The deal follows a project that ABB and Insta have already started w

The boundaries of onshore wind continue to be pushed higher with the launch of a new product of the Siemens Gamesa 5.X platform with a rated power of 7-MW. The new SG 7.0-170 turbine will offer one of the most competitive Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) in the industry, enabling customers to provide more clean power. The variant has evolved from the original SG 6.6-170 turbine and is particularly aimed at medium to high wind sites globally. The powerful Siemens Gamesa 5.X

GE Renewable Energy's hydropower business has signed a five-year contract with Norte Energia covering the full scope of routine, planned and corrective maintenance of the Belo Monte hydropower plant (11 GW) and its complementary powerhouse (Pimental - 233 MW). The amount of energy generated by the Belo Monte project is sufficient to meet the electricity needs of 60 million people. GE Renewable Energy was previously selected to supply equipment and solutions for the construction

ABB has reached an agreement to divest to Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi) its remaining 19.9 percent equity stake in the Hitachi Energy joint venture that was formed from ABB’s Power Grids business in 2020, with Hitachi holding a stake of 80.1 percent. Hitachi has exercised its call option that was agreed between the parties in December 2018. The call option’s exercise value is $1.679 billion. The companies have agreed to settle remaining obligations relating to the original tra

Siemens will replace American Electric Power’s (AEP) existing protection simulation operation software with PSS®CAPE. Ohio-based AEP, the largest transmission grid operator in the U.S., serves 5.5 million customers across 11 states and maintains the largest transmission network in the country with over 40,000 miles of transmission lines. As grid planning and operations becomes more complex, traditional, siloed manual practices for sharing model data across departments are no longer

ABB is investing US$13 million in its Installation Products Division Iberville manufacturing facility in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, to increase production capacity and establish a research & development facility at its global center of excellence for cable tray manufacturing. This will support rising global demand, especially in the data center segment, and is ABB’s second multimillion-dollar investment in a Canadian site in the last 12 months. The Iberville facilit

Emerson announced an agreement to sell its Russia business, including Metran, its Russia-based manufacturing subsidiary, and Emerson LLC in Russia, the sales and service organization for Metran, to the local management team. This announcement follows the company’s May statement to exit its Russia business and explore strategic options to divest Metran. For fiscal year 2021, Russia represented approximately 1.5% of total Emerson sales. As part of the previously announced Russia

Industry-leading automation solution provider, Omron Automation Americas, continues to demonstrate its commitment to customers and their automation needs with their event, OPEN 2022. Hosted at four Proof of Concept Centers, customers will have access to the technologies, resources, and best practices that make for integrated, intelligent and interactive solutions that enable sustainable business success. This two-day event allows customers to participate in live and virtual sessions

United Natural Foods, Inc., and Symbotic Inc., announced that they have entered into a commercial agreement to implement Symbotic’s A.I.-powered robotics and software automation in five of UNFI’s distribution centers over the next four years. Under the agreement, UNFI also has an option to implement Symbotic’s warehouse automation systems in additional distribution centers. Symbotic’s end-to-end automation system, with robotic case pick capabilities, is desig

Siemens Digital Industries Software today introduced the Tessent™ Multi-die software solution, which helps customers dramatically speed and simplify critical design-for-test (DFT) tasks for next-generation integrated circuits (ICs) based on 2.5D and 3D architectures. As demand for smaller, more power efficient and higher performing ICs continues to challenge the global IC design community, next-generation devices increasingly feature complex 2.5D and 3D architectures that conn