Two new companies joined the REINHAUSEN family in April 2016: Reinhausen España (RES) and OOO MR Yekaterinburg. MR has also had a majority holding in British Transformer Components Ltd. (BTRAC) since the start of the year.

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On 16 March 2016, a delegation from Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR) led by Werner Fleischmann (Senior Area Sales Manager Eastern Europe) visited the Ural Chamber of Trade and Industry. As well as serving as an opportunity to present MR's range of products and services, the visit was prompted by the founding of OOO MR Yekaterinburg as a subsidiary of OOO MR (MR Russia).

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Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc., located in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, is one of Reinhausen Power Composites´ (RPC) most important customers. So it is excellent news that in 2015 for the first time ever -RPC achieved the "Three Diamonds Award”-Status - Mitsubishi's highest supplier award - in both its high-voltage and medium-voltage business areas. In 2015, Mitsubishi didn't riase a single complaint in the Electronic Distribution area against RPC. What's more, the customer is especially impressed by RPC's rapid Response times.

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It is the smallest high-speed resistor-type tap-changer in the world using vacuum Technology and it can do more than any other. The new ECOTAP VPD allows distribution grid transformers to be regulated using tried and tested MR vacuum switching technology. ECOTAP VPD is not just maintenance-free and very reliable, it can also be used in any transformer regardless of manufacturer.

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China Light & Power (CLP), a Chinese power supplier in Hong Kong, operates around 400 OILTAP® M or MS type tap changers from MR. These can be easily converted to vacuum technology with a VACUTAP® VM® diverter switch insert (DSI). Since March 2015 the MR specialists have carried out two retrofit projects at CLP and replaced a total of six OILTAP® with VACUTAP® VM®.

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On 29 March 2016, the utility West Bengal CESC in India commissioned its first underground substation comprising 19 panels at 33kV GIS and 7 panels at 132kV GIS as well as a 75MVA, 132kV/33kV power transformer. The transformer is equipped with an MR vacuum OLTC of type VACUTAP® VV® III 600Y.

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In Saudi Arabia, specialists of Reinhausen Middle East (RME) have completed a retrofit project for the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). The service specialists replaced an old, defective on-load tap-changer from Westinghouse with a VACUTAP® RMV II. This is the first time that a Westinghouse tap changer has been replaced with an MR reactor-type tap-changer in the Middle East.

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Energy accumulators are an attractive solution in all situations where energy supply and consumption need to be made synchronous or asynchronous. In industrial grids especially, energy accumulators help to significantly cut energy costs. The GRIDCON® ACF ESS from Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen (MR) is a perfectly matched combination of active filter and energy accumulator.

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Maximum power transformer availability is crucial to a reliable power supply. Downtime or outages result in severe damage and high costs. Reinhausen South Africa (RZA) will help you to operate transformers smoothly and cost-effectively over their entire service lives, starting with commissioning and extending to repairs and measures to increase the service life. A special offer to customers and industry partners in Africa is tailored consultation from Peter A. Busch, a leading expert in the power transformer industry.

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IEEE ran between 3 - 5 May 2016 in Dallas. It is the world's largest electrotechnology trade fair in 2016. Through the presence of RM, ICMI, HV, Capt, Cedaspe, and RPC, the REINHAUSEN Group and its entire range of products and services were represented at IEEE.

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The MRcademy® Philippines 2016 was held on 26 April 2016 at Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa, located on the pristine island of Cebu, Philippines. The response was overwhelming, as there was a huge gathering of a hundred representatives from different fields, with the majority of attendees representing the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, MERALCO and Visayan Electric Company.

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